The 2010 cargo planes bomb plot was discovered on October 29 , 2010 , when two packages containing bombs found on cargo aircraft , based on intelligence received from government intelligence agencies , in the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates . The packages originated from Yemen , and were addressed to outdated addresses of two Jewish institutions in Chicago , Illinois , one of which was the Congregation Or Chadash , a LGBT synagogue . Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took responsibility for the plot . It posted its acceptance of responsibility on a number of radical Islamist websites monitored by the SITE Intelligence Group and the Nine Eleven Finding Answers Foundation , and wrote : It also claimed responsibility for the crash of a UPS Boeing 747-400 cargo plane in Dubai on September 3 . The statement continued : American authorities had said they believed that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was behind the plot . Officials in the United Kingdom and the United States believe that it is most likely that the bombs were designed to destroy the planes carrying them
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