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| Plane 'plotter' met Yemen cleric | |
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| A Nigerian accused of plotting to bomb a plane over Detroit met radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, senior Yemeni officials have confirmed. | A Nigerian accused of plotting to bomb a plane over Detroit met radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, senior Yemeni officials have confirmed. |
| Deputy Prime Minister Rashad al-Alimi said the two men had met when the bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, visited Shabwa province. | Deputy Prime Minister Rashad al-Alimi said the two men had met when the bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, visited Shabwa province. |
| Last week US security official John Brennan said there were "indications" of direct contact between the two men. | Last week US security official John Brennan said there were "indications" of direct contact between the two men. |
| Mr Abdulmutallab was indicted by a US grand jury on six counts on Wednesday. | Mr Abdulmutallab was indicted by a US grand jury on six counts on Wednesday. |
| Charges against him include attempted murder of the 290 people aboard the plane and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. | Charges against him include attempted murder of the 290 people aboard the plane and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. |
| Mr Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to detonate a bomb on Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit, but the plane landed safely after crew and passengers overpowered him. | Mr Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to detonate a bomb on Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit, but the plane landed safely after crew and passengers overpowered him. |
| Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been in custody since 25 December | |
| Mr Awlaki, a radical American Muslim cleric of Yemeni descent, has been linked to other attacks, including that carried out by a US army major who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood army base in Texas in November. | Mr Awlaki, a radical American Muslim cleric of Yemeni descent, has been linked to other attacks, including that carried out by a US army major who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood army base in Texas in November. |
| "Mr Awlaki is a problem. He's clearly a part of Al-Qaeda in [the] Arabian Peninsula," Mr Brennan, who is UN deputy national security adviser, told CNN last week. | |
| "He's not just a cleric. He is in fact trying to instigate terrorism." | |
| Some reports say the cleric was killed just before the Christmas attack, in an airstrike on a suspected al-Qaeda base. | Some reports say the cleric was killed just before the Christmas attack, in an airstrike on a suspected al-Qaeda base. |
| However, friends and relatives say he was not harmed in the raid. | However, friends and relatives say he was not harmed in the raid. |