Yemen Bomb Was 17 Minutes From Exploding

One of two mail bombs sent from Yemen last week was defused just 17 minutes before it was set to explode, the French interior minister said today. Brice Hortefeux provided no other details in an interview on France's state-run France-2 television, and did not say where he got the information about the timing. Officials earlier determined the bombs were wired to cell phones that could not receive calls, making it likely the terrorists intended the alarm or timer functions to detonate the bombs. Click here for more on the plot. (More Yemen stories.)