Posted on 10/30/2010 12:00:43 PM PDT by Dacula
SAN'A, Yemen — Yemeni authorities on Saturday arrested a woman suspected of sending two mail bombs found on cargo planes and are searching for more suspects believed linked to al-Qaida, Yemeni security officials said.
The officials said the woman was detained as part of the manhunt as authorities search for a number of suspects believed to have used forged documents and ID cards that played a role in the plot that was thwarted Friday.
U.S. investigators have said the mail bombs were headed to two synagogues in Chicago, raising fears of a new al-Qaida campaign against Western targets. The Yemeni officials said the suspects were believed linked to the terror network's faction in Yemen.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh told reporters in the capital, San'a, that the United States and the United Arab Emirates had provided him with information that helped identify the woman as a suspect. He said security forces had surrounded a house that was believed to be holding the woman.
Two security officials later told The Associated Press the woman had been arrested, although they did not specify where she was detained.
One of the officials, who is a member of the country's anti-terrorism unit and is close to the Yemeni team probing the case, said the other suspects had been tied to al-Qaida's faction in Yemen.
Several U.S. officials also have they were increasingly confident that al-Qaida's Yemen branch, the group behind the failed Detroit airliner bombing last Christmas, was responsible for the plot.
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I think we all know how Islam treats women, there is no way a woman was the leader of this thing.
She was probably just a runner or transporter...that big Burka could hide stuff.
Good Gosh, Our president knew who did this, made a token arrest and as all of this was taking place... the president waives prosecution of women and children from Yemen.
Please, anyone with an ounce of brain power... someone is squeezing this lady for information and getting all of her contact information.
PLEASE DO NOT WATER-BOARD HER!
Mary O’Malley?
Could this be a case of ‘rounding up the usual suspects’? I will give them the benefit of the doubt—for now.
She was probably some tourist who took the off ramp to medina and was rounded up by the police and foisted off as the ring leader.
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