U.S. warned of bomb plot weeks ago

Sunday, November 7, 2010

WASHINGTON -- Western officials are crediting a Saudi intelligence tip they received in early October, nearly three weeks before terrorists in Yemen managed to smuggle mail bombs onto airplanes, with heading off what could have been a series of catastrophic explosions aboard jetliners.

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