Mideast Yemen Mail Bombs
A Yemeni shopkeeper waits for customers at a market in the old San'a, Yemen, Tuesday. Nov. 2, 2010. Yemen put a U.S.-born radical cleric on trial in ...
A Yemeni shopkeeper waits for customers at a market in the old San'a, Yemen, Tuesday. Nov. 2, 2010. Yemen put a U.S.-born radical cleric on trial in absentia Tuesday, accusing him and two other men of plotting to kill foreigners and being members of al-Qaida. It was the first formal legal action by Yemen against Anwar al-Awlaki, and came as the country faces heavy pressure to crack down on the terror network following the interception of two mail bombs intercepted in Dubai and Britain last week. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
Mideast Yemen Mail Bombs
Policemen guard next to UPS office Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, in San'a, Yemen. Yemen put a U.S.-born radical cleric on trial in absentia Tuesday, accusin...
Policemen guard next to UPS office Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, in San'a, Yemen. Yemen put a U.S.-born radical cleric on trial in absentia Tuesday, accusing him and two other men of plotting to kill foreigners and being members of al-Qaida. It was the first formal legal action by Yemen against Anwar al-Awlaki, and came as the country faces heavy pressure to crack down on the terror network following the interception of two mail bombs intercepted in Dubai and Britain last week. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
France's interior minister says that one of two mail bombs sent from Yemen last week was defused just 17 minutes before it was set to explode.
Brice Hortefeux provided no other details in an interview Thursday on France's state-run France-2 television, or say where he got the information about the timing.
