Yemen condemns foiled terror attack aboard U.S. jet

SANA'A, Dec. 29 (Saba) - Yemen
has condemned the failed bombing of a U.S. passenger jet by a Nigerian man as it
approached
Detroit on Christmas Day.

Yemen condemns such terrorist acts targeting the innocent and it reiterates its
full support for the fight against terror anywhere on the globe, a source at the
Foreign
ministry said.
Regarding information that the would-be bomber, Umer Farouk Abdulmutallab, the
source affirmed that the Migration and Passport Authority had affirmed he lived in
Yemen from
August to December 2009 after he got an entry visa to study Arabic language in Sana'a.
The entry visa was granted to the Nigerian after authorities found he could get
visas from other friend countries and seeing his U.S.
visa was still valid, the source made clear.
Authorities are investigating to find contacts of Abdulmatalab while in Yemen and
possible results would be handed to U.S. within cooperation with Yemen on the fight
against
terror.
U.S. reports noted that device AbdulMutallab is said to have carried aboard the
flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan, 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.
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