Police in Columbia say an alleged drugs lord on the country's most wanted list has turned himself in. Javier Antonio Calle Serna, better known as Comba, is accused of the murder in 2008 of Wilber Varela, a Columbium drugs baron whose smuggling-routes he allegedly took over.
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BBC news with Stewart Macintosh
BBC新闻斯图尔特·麦金托什报道(Stewart Macintosh)
Officials in the United States say they and their allies have disrupted a plot to bomb a plane involving an upgraded device similar to that used unsuccessfully by a underwear bomber on a flight from Yemen to the US in 2009. The device is in the possession of US officials. Mark Mardell reports from Washington.
美国当局官员称他们和他们的盟友已经挫败了一起炸机阴谋,这一阴谋中的作案炸弹与2009年从也门到美国的炸机未遂案中的内衣炸弹相似,是加强版。炸弹装置目前已在美国当局官员掌握之中。马克·莫德尔(Mark Mardell)于华盛顿报道。
The White House says the president was told about the plot last month. The plan emanated from Yemen where al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula had made a device to be used by a suicide bomber to plant an American airline last week, on or around the anniversary of the killing of Bin Laden. It appears it was fooled as a result of the cooperation between American and other unnamed intelligence agencies at a relatively early stage, after the making of the bomb but before the public would put it any risk. It apparently contains no metal, so could pass through normal airport's security, although many American airports now use body scanners. So far no word has emerged as to the fate of the would-be bomber.