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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Yemen cracks down on cargo after parcel bomb plot AFP - Tuesday, November 2 Send IM Story Print Yemen cracks down on cargo after parcel bomb plot SANAA (AFP) - – Yemen on Monday announced a crackdown on cargo shipments after two US-bound bomb parcels were sent from the country, as Washington dispatched security experts to help Sanaa screen air cargo. US Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole said the team of TSA agents will provide screening, training and equipment to examine cargo shipments at Sanaa airport. Meanwhile the BBC reported that the source of the tip-off which led to the discovery of the parcel bombs was Jabr al-Faifi, a former Al-Qaeda member based in Yemen who turned himself in to Saudi authorities two weeks ago. Focus: Saudi fugitives key players in Yemen-based Qaeda branch Faifi was a former Guantanamo detainee who was returned to Saudi Arabia for rehabilitation in 2006 but later escaped to Yemen and rejoined Al-Qaeda. An alleged Saudi bombmaker, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, has emerged as a key suspect in the failed package plot which has prompted several countries to tighten security for US-bound cargo and suspend shipments from Yemen. Yemen's Saba news agency said that a committee for civil aviation security has decided "to implement exceptional security measures on all cargo leaving Yemeni airports to ensure the safety of civil aviation." It has also decided to tighten general security at all Yemeni airports to counter "methods used by terror organisations," Saba said. Qatar Airways said on Sunday that a package containing explosives was flown from Sanaa to Doha and then on to Dubai on one of its aircraft. A source said on condition of anonymity that the plane was a passenger flight. The bomb was composed of a highly explosive combination of PETN, itself a potent substance, and lead azide, hidden inside a computer printer with a circuit board and mobile phone SIM card attached, Dubai security officials said. Analysis: Cargo plan bombs show security gaps, innovation The other parcel which British Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared designed to blow up a plane was found at East Midlands airport in central England and apparently traveled through Cologne in Germany. In Germany, where authorities extended a ban on air freight from Yemen to passenger flights, a government official said Monday that the bomb parcels contained 300 grammes (11 ounces) and 400 grammes of explosives. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the two bombs contained PETN and that "they would have caused significant damage" if they had gone off. Meanwhile Pistole told CBS news that a team of experts from the US Transportation Security Administration who was sent to Yemen will help ensure that air cargo leaving the country for the United States after Washington lifts a temporary ban on shipments from Yemen will be safe. Shortly after the discovery of the bombs, Germany and Britain banned all freight from Yemen from coming into the country, including in transit and Germany extended it to passenger flight. "German air authorities have orders to turn back all direct and indirect flights from Yemen," a transport ministry spokesman said. France also took measures to suspend air freight from Yemen. "It is clear that we must take every possible step to work with our partners in the Arab world to cut out the terrorist cancer that lurks in the Arabian Peninsula," the British prime minister said on Monday. A female medical student detained in Sanaa on Saturday after being tracked down through a mobile number written on the explosives-filled packages was released the next day, her father said. A Yemeni security official told AFP that only one parcel had been sent by a woman who "impersonated" Hanan al-Samawi and put the student's phone number on the receipt. The second package was sent by a man, he said. Yemeni authorities also arrested more suspects on Monday and released employees from the Sanaa offices of FedEx and UPS -- the courier firms reportedly used for the parcels -- a security official said. Meanwhile a US official said that alleged Al-Qaeda bombmaker Asiri, 28, had emerged as the "leading suspect" in the parcel bomb plot uncovered late on Thursday. "Al-Asiri's past activities and explosives' experience make him a leading suspect," the official said on condition of anonymity. The militant, thought to be hiding in Yemen, is wanted for a string of high-profile attacks linked to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Yemen-based branch of Osama bin Laden's network. "There are indications he may have had a role in past AQAP plots, including the attempted assassination of a Saudi official and last year's failed Christmas Day attack," the official said. Asiri figures on most-wanted terror suspect lists in both Yemen and Saudi Arabia. In August 2009, he sent his 23-year-old younger brother on a suicide mission, with 100 grams (four ounces) of PETN under his white Saudi robe, to kill Saudi intelligence chief Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was wounded but survived. US officials have said the parcel bombs intercepted in Dubai and Britain were addressed to synagogues in Chicago. 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