Investigators hunt for mail bombers in Yemen

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WASHINGTON, OCT 30 (AP): U.S. and Yemeni authorities are searching for the terrorists who tried to mail two bombs from Yemen to Chicago-area synagogues in a brazen plot that heightened fears of a renewed al-Qaida terror offensive against the United States and other Western countries.
Authorities on three continents thwarted the attacks when they seized explosives on cargo planes in the United Arab Emirates and England.
The plot sent tremors throughout the U.S., where after a frenzied day searching planes and parcel trucks for other explosives, officials temporarily banned all new cargo from Yemen. Several U.S. officials said they were increasingly confident that al-Qaida's Yemen branch, the group behind the failed Detroit airliner bombing last Christmas, was responsible.