The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on Christmas may have met with a radical American-Yemeni cleric linked to al-Qaida and the alleged Fort Hood shooter to prepare for the failed attack, Yemen's deputy prime minister said Thursday.
Rashad al-Alimi, the deputy prime minister for defense and security, said 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab met with al-Qaida members in the remote Yemeni province of Shabwa before the attack, a place he said he believed was connected to the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
"There is no doubt that he met and had contacts with al-Qaida elements in Shabwa, ... perhaps with al-Awlaki," …
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