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January 8, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/world/middleeast/08yemen.html

Yemen Says Christmas Bomb Suspect Met with Qaeda Figures

(New York Times) Steven Erlanger - Rashad al-Alimi, Yemen's deputy prime minister for national security and defense, said Thursday that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to bring down an airliner as it was approaching Detroit on Dec. 25, had met with operatives of al-Qaeda and probably with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born Internet preacher, in Yemen before setting out on his journey. However, Alimi denied that Abdulmutallab left Yemen with the explosives, saying he obtained them in Nigeria, though he offered no specific evidence. Alimi also said that Abdulmutallab had been recruited in London.

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