Suspect charged with trying to blow up US jet
China Daily | Updated: 2009-12-28 07:44

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WASHINGTON: US authorities on Saturday charged a Nigerian man with trying to blow up a US passenger jet with high explosives and were investigating his claim that he had links to Al-Qaida.
There are no signs that the incident was part of a larger plot, US officials said yesterday.
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