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06-04-2010, 07:09 PM
'Britons held' in terror swoop
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Several foreigners, including Britons, Americans and an Australian woman, have been held in Yemen in an investigation into al Qaida's increased activity in the country, security officials have said. Skip related content (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100603/tuk-britons-held-in-terror-swoop-6323e80_1.html#ynw-article-part2)
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The arrests were made after foreign intelligence agencies provided lists of names of people they wanted detained or put under surveillance, the officials said.
They would not discuss details about most of those targeted - a group that also included Frenchmen, Africans and Asians - or specify how many there were.
Al Qaida's offshoot in Yemen has steadily increased in strength since key leaders escaped from a Yemeni jail in 2006. In January 2009 it got another boost by merging with Saudi al Qaida militants to form al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
Under US pressure and with the help of American aid, training and intelligence, Yemen's government has battled the militants. But the weak government's control barely extends beyond the capital, and the militants have found shelter among powerful and sympathetic tribes which are hostile to the government.
The Yemeni security officials said some of the recently detained foreigners are believed to be linked to the Nigerian man suspected of attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner in December. US investigators said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab told them he was trained and instructed in the plot by al Qaida in Yemen.
Some of the detainees are also thought to be connected to radical American-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have inspired attacks on the US and is hiding in Yemen, said the officials.
The detained Australian woman moved to Yemen with her two children in 2006 after converting to Islam, her Yemeni lawyer said.
He identified her as 30-year-old Shyloh Giddins and said she was arrested on May 15. The lawyer, Abdel-Rahman Berman, said he was not allowed to discuss details of the investigation, but he said she has not been charged. According to Australian government documents obtained from the lawyer, Giddins' Australian passport was cancelled in April because the intelligence service there believed she was a security threat.
After arriving in Yemen, she studied Arabic and Islam and taught English in private institutes, her lawyer said. Mr Berman said authorities have not allowed Giddins's two children, aged five and seven, to leave their home in Yemen's capital, San'a.
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Story (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100603/tuk-britons-held-in-terror-swoop-6323e80_1.html?printer=1)
Several foreigners, including Britons, Americans and an Australian woman, have been held in Yemen in an investigation into al Qaida's increased activity in the country, security officials have said. Skip related content (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100603/tuk-britons-held-in-terror-swoop-6323e80_1.html#ynw-article-part2)
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The arrests were made after foreign intelligence agencies provided lists of names of people they wanted detained or put under surveillance, the officials said.
They would not discuss details about most of those targeted - a group that also included Frenchmen, Africans and Asians - or specify how many there were.
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Under US pressure and with the help of American aid, training and intelligence, Yemen's government has battled the militants. But the weak government's control barely extends beyond the capital, and the militants have found shelter among powerful and sympathetic tribes which are hostile to the government.
The Yemeni security officials said some of the recently detained foreigners are believed to be linked to the Nigerian man suspected of attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner in December. US investigators said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab told them he was trained and instructed in the plot by al Qaida in Yemen.
Some of the detainees are also thought to be connected to radical American-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have inspired attacks on the US and is hiding in Yemen, said the officials.
The detained Australian woman moved to Yemen with her two children in 2006 after converting to Islam, her Yemeni lawyer said.
He identified her as 30-year-old Shyloh Giddins and said she was arrested on May 15. The lawyer, Abdel-Rahman Berman, said he was not allowed to discuss details of the investigation, but he said she has not been charged. According to Australian government documents obtained from the lawyer, Giddins' Australian passport was cancelled in April because the intelligence service there believed she was a security threat.
After arriving in Yemen, she studied Arabic and Islam and taught English in private institutes, her lawyer said. Mr Berman said authorities have not allowed Giddins's two children, aged five and seven, to leave their home in Yemen's capital, San'a.
They are like cockroaches, everywhere !