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Investigators Hunt for Mail Bombers in Yemen
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. and Yemeni authorities are searching for the terrorists who tried to mail two bombs from Yemen to Chicago area synagogues.

Authorities on three continents thwarted the attacks when they seized explosives on cargo planes in the United Arab Emirates and England.

The plot sent tremors throughout the U.S. and President Barack Obama called the coordinated attacks a "credible terrorist threat."

Several U.S. officials said they were increasingly confident that al-Qaida's Yemen branch was responsible. That group was behind the failed Detroit airliner bombing last Christmas.

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