FOILED TERROR ATTACK PROMPTS FURTHER YEMEN SECURITY MEASURES

SANA'A, Dec. 29 (Saba) - Yemen is taking further security and
administrative measures regarding foreign students in it, a move
that comes after the foiled terror attack on a U.S. passenger jet by
a Nigerian young man said to have entered in Yemen with a study
visa.

The spokesman for the government, Hassan Al-lawzi, who is
minister of Information, said in a press conference on Tuesday the
measures include that a foreign student should provide sufficient
information about them and their visit's reasons to Yemeni embassies
abroad, which in turn will pass the provided information to the
Interior Ministry.

Earlier today, Yemen condemned the foiled attack against the U.S.
plane as it approached Detroit coming from the Netherlands on
Christmas Day.

' Yemen condemns all forms of terror targeting the innocent and
reiterates its cooperation on the fight against terror anywhere in
the globe,' a source at the Foreign Ministry said.

The would-be Nigerian bomber, Umer Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, was
said to have stood in Yemen from August to December this year.

He came to study Arabic language in a Sana'a institute.

He was arrested onboard the plane when he was about to set off an
explosive device that international reports said contained
pentaerythritol tetranitrate, an explosive also known as PETN.

The amount of explosive was sufficient to blow a hole in the
aircraft, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN
Sunday.

Other International reports said Abdulmutallab was on terror
lists but not on no-fly ones.

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