Two Yemeni airfreight parcel bombs intercepted en route to Chicago synagogues, one of them for gay Jews

 The bombs sent from Yemen were intercepted on a UPS cargo plane in England,³ and at a Fedex facility in Dubai,³ after a Saudi tipoff.⁴

 Although the bombs were sent to Chicago synagogues,³ one which was Or Chadash that serves gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Jew,¹ British Prime Minister David Cameron said the bomb found in England was designed to explode on the plane.³

 Around 60 per cent of US bound cargo is flown in on passenger planes, meaning the bombs, which were powerful enough to bring down a plane, could easily have brought down one of them.³

 Al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula is suspected of being behind the plot since PETN explosives, used by them in the past, such in Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab's failed under wear bomb,² was also used this time in one of the bombs, placed inside a computer² printer's ink tonger cartridge.⁴

 Hanan Al-Samawi,² a fifth-year Engineering student at Sanaa University, in the Yemeni capital, has been arrested under suspicion⁵ of mailing the packages. Her mother, Amatulillah Mohammed, has been detained along with her.²

Sources: 1. Chicago Tribune, 2. CNN, 3. 4. Daily Mail (UK) 5. Time (Magazine)