Yemen terror camps attract 'stream of Britons'

[Bozita]

Source: Guardian UK

Yemen terror camps attract 'stream of Britons'
Fears raised that country is becoming stronghold for new generation of al-Qaida-inspired fighters

Matthew Taylor, Richard Norton-Taylor and Sandra Laville
guardian.co.uk, Monday 28 December 2009 21.45 GMT
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A number of Britons have travelled to Yemen to train at secret terrorist camps, counter-terrorism officials revealed today, raising fears that the country is becoming a stronghold for a new generation of al-Qaida-inspired fighters.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, whose failed attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 is the focus of an urgent global investigation, claimed he was trained in Yemen and that senior al-Qaida operatives in that country supplied the device used in the plot.

Tonight senior UK counter-terrorism officials said MI5 was aware of several British nationals and British residents who had trained at camps in Yemen's "ungoverned spaces" in the last year.

Security officials in Yemen said today that 29 al-Qaida suspects had been arrested as part of a new crackdown on the terrorist group. "There is a steady stream of people travelling to Yemen and travel to Yemen is something that is of concern to us," said a UK security source.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/28/yemen-terror-camps-britons

[msongs]

1. gotta justify our killing of women and kids in afghanistan and now yemen nt

[HipChick]

2. I've been saying for years..the threat will not just come from outside..but also inside

I've walked down streets in Luton..homes have OBL posters in the front windows...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/26/international/europe/26EURO.html?ex=1398312000&en=957ca20040480e24&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2785733/Cops-fear-25-British-born-Muslims-are-plotting-to-bomb-Western-airliners.html

[marshall]

3. I was surprised that Arabic seemed like a second language in London

Street signs, train signs, signs in stores--it was like a border town.