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Al Qaeda’s Al Asiri said to be Yemen parcel bombmaker | Ibrahim Hassan Al Asiri, a Yemen-based al-Qaeda terrorist, is being touted as the man who prepared the two parcel bombs that were discovered onboard two US-bound
jets in the UK and Dubai. US intelligence officials say the detonator on one
of the devices is almost exactly the same as one he is thought to have made for
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called Underpants Bomber, The Telegraph
reports.
Washington is now reported to have approached the Yemeni Government for
permission
to launch drone strikes in areas where it believes the al-Qaeda has established
a presence. US intelligence believes that Ibrahim is now in regular contact with
the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is likewise on the run in Yemen . One
serving US intelligence officer told The Sunday Telegraph that there was now debate
underway about pressuring Yemen into allowing the CIA to base armed drone
aircraft
there for a sustained attack on al Qaeda bases. Originally born to a pious family
in Saudi Arabia , Ibrahim is one of 85 people on the kingdom's list of wanted
terrorists. After serving jail time in his home country, he fled to neighbouring
Yemen two years ago with his brother Abdullah to become key members of Al
Qaeda
in the Arabian Peninsula , which has bases in the lawless mountain areas beyond
the writ of central government. The slightly-built 28-year-old, who is the son
of a retired soldier, is believed to be the movement's resident bomb-making expert
- skills he first put to chilling use in a suicide attack in which he recruited
his own younger brother, Abdullah, 23, to act as the "martyr". The attack was
an audacious attempt on the life of the Saudi Deputy Minister of the Interior,
Prince Muhammad Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, who has personally led an innovative
programme
in the kingdom to encourage jihadis to reform. Posing as a jihadist keen to repent,
Abdullah gained a private audience with Prince Muhammad in his office, and then
detonated a bomb hidden in his own body. It failed to kill the prince but killed
Abdullah.
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