Intel agents: 20 bombers ready to strike
Joseph Farah
Jan. 11, 2010
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LONDON – Suspected Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab reportedly has told authorities there are others like him prepared to strike against the United States, and now agents from the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, have confirmed 20 more young Muslims are in Yemen in the final stages of attack preparations, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
Some are believed to be female students, chosen because al-Qaida believes it is easier for them to avoid detection.
Under interrogation in his high-security cell, Abdulmuttalab gave his FBI interrogators sufficient details over the weekend to enable the Secret Intelligence Service to track how the bombers are being trained in the desert east of Yemen's capital, Sana, before heading out to the U.K. and the U.S.
In a video, Nasser al-Wahayshi, the leader of al-Qaida's Yemeni and Saudi branches, has urged followers to attack all countries involved in "opposing the Islamic faith."
We will attack from directions you can't imagine," he says.
Around him in the video stood dozens of fighters, cradling rocket launchers and machine guns.
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But it is the method the used by the Detroit bomber that has launched the biggest manhunt to catch the other bombers before they can try to replicate the Christmas Day plan to destroy Northwest Flight 253.
The MI6 officers based in Yemen say Sana is a fertile ground for recruiting terrorists.
"Many people have lost their jobs. … They meet members of al-Qaida and are quickly convinced to join the organization," said one intelligence officer.
In the depths of a training camp in the desert that was once a route for trafficking in frankincense and myrrh, recruits are taught new ways to launch deadly weapons.
Al-Qaida has claimed the killing of a senior Yemeni official, Bassem Tarboush, the head of the country's intelligence service. Shortly afterwards several senior Yemeni officers were murdered.
Meanwhile, domestic terrorist recruits have been joined by recruits from Somalia, just across the Red Sea.
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