Mail bombs 4 times larger than Christmas plot

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

WASHINGTON -- Al-Qaida's top bombmaker raised his game, officials believe, by following his miss on a crowded U.S.-bound passenger jet last Christmas with four times more explosives packed into bombs hidden on flights from Yemen.

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