Yemen Says Attack Suspect Was In Country (ap)

This image of a Web page taken from a site frequently used by militants to disseminate their messages, purports to show Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in a photo above, and in a graphic, superimposed over an image of a airplane in the center of the page. In a statement posted on the site dated Saturday Dec. 26, 2009, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the attack on a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. In the statement, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula said Abdulmutallab coordinated with members of the group, an alliance of militants based in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. (AP Photo)AP – Yemen’s government said Monday that the Nigerian accused in the Christmas day attack on a U.S. airliner visited Yemen this year, and that authorities were investigating his activities during his stay.

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