The Economist online
Nov 28th 1999
BARACK OBAMA confirmed this afternoon that two packages bound for Jewish institutions in Chicago shipped from Yemen carried explosives. One was on a UPS plane, the other on a Fed-Ex one. The discovery of an improvised explosive device on a cargo plane bound for the United States set off an international search for suspicious parcels. Parts of East Midlands airport in Britain were sealed off. Three UPS cargo planes were grounded and searched in Philadelphia and Newark. UPS trucks in the New York area were stopped and
searched. Part of Flatbush Avenue, a main artery in Brooklyn, and the Manhattan Bridge, which connects Manhattan and Brooklyn, were both closed for part of the day. Helicopters hovered in the sky. An Emirates Airlines passenger jet on its way to New York's Kennedy airport, carrying cargo from Yemen, was escorted by Canadian and American fighter jets.
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