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Al-Qaida’s Yemen-based wing has claimed responsibility for a foiled plot to send mail bombs to the United States on cargo planes.ugg boots sale

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula says it also was behind the crash of a United Parcel Service cargo plane in September that killed the plane’s two pilots.

The group posted a message on Islamist websites Friday saying it will continue to strike the interests of the U.S. and U.S. allies.

Investigators have said the UPS plane crash in Dubai was caused by an onboard fire. But U.S. officials have suspected al-Qaida in Yemen for the parcel bombs intercepted in Dubai and England last week.

The New York Times newspaper reported Friday that Saudi intelligence officials warned the U.S. in early October that the Yemen-based group was planning a terrorist attack using aircraft, three weeks before the plot was intercepted.uggs sale

The report cites unnamed U.S. and European officials as saying the warning came October 9 and was one of a series of alerts from the Saudis. The Times quotes a U.S. official as saying the intelligence information contained no mention of cargo planes or the precise details of the plot.

U.S. officials have identified AQAP member Ibrahim Hasan al-Asiri as the probable mastermind behind the parcel bombs.

Al-Asiri also is suspected of making the bomb used in an attempt to kill Saudi Arabia’s deputy interior minister, Prince Mohammed bin Naif, in 2009.ugg boots on sale authorized