Dubai dubious of al Qaeda UPS crash claim

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CNN:

No evidence has surfaced of an explosion aboard a UPS cargo plane that crashed in Dubai last September, officials in the United Arab Emirates said Saturday.

But UAE authorities are seriously looking into a claim by a militant group that it was responsible for bringing the plane down.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based arm of the al Qaeda terrorist network, claimed responsibility on Friday for the September 3 crash, which killed two pilots aboard, and last week's foiled plot to send parcel bombs to U.S. synagogues.

"The investigators did not report any explosion, only a fire in the cabin," Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Dubai's police chief, told CNN on Saturday. "Dubai police investigations revealed that an explosive parcel would have blown up the plane into pieces."

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As noted elsewhere, I recently flew through Dubai on my way from Bangkok. It has one of the better airports in the world and its security was tight. My carry own luggage was checked when I landed and again before I was allowed to board my flight to Houston. I did not have a problem with that because I want them to do what they can to find al Qaeda ops who are trying to commit mass murder of plane passengers.
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