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.