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| UAE to review bomb blast claim in UPS jet crash |
| 2010-11-07 |
| [Al Arabiya] The United Arab Emirates aviation authority is investigating a claim by al-Qaeda that it was behind the September crash of a UPS plane in Dubai, but has found no link so far, an official said on Saturday. "The investigations which were carried out and the details collected from the site of the UPS cargo plane crash have not shown an kaboom taking place on board the aircraft," the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said. "This does not mean that the claim of an kaboom taking place will not be taken seriously; the authority will investigate this claim," said a statement carried by state news agency WAM. On Friday, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed it had planted a bomb on a jumbo jet belonging to US delivery giant UPS near Dubai airport on September 3, and that the authorities had kept the cause of the crash quiet. "We downed the plane belonging to the American UPS company, but because the media of the enemy did not attribute responsibility for this work to us we kept quiet about the operation until the time came that we hit again," it said. On October 28, the group said, it placed bombs on flights operated by UPS and FedEx. The bombs which were traced to Yemen, were intercepted in Dubai and in England before they could explode. |
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