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Al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen , Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), is planning to launch an attack on an American airliner, a British paper, citing intelligence sources, has claimed. The Sunday Times claimed AQAP had recruited a Norwegian Muslim convert and given him terrorist training in Yemen , and that the group were believed to have selected a US passenger jet as a target. "The Norwegian recruit goes under the name of Muslim Abu Abdurrahman," the newspaper said. "He is understood to be in his thirties and a 'clean skin', with no previous criminal record. He converted in 2008 and quickly became radicalized," the paper said. "He later travelled to Yemen , where he has spent several months to complete his training," the report added. According to The News, the CIA foiled a similar AQAP plot to blow up a US-bound airliner in May. AQAP is said to behind the 2009 Christmas plot in which a bomb hidden in a Nigerian attacker's underwear failed to detonate on a plane bound for Detroit.

Al-Qaeda planning terror attack on US airline: Report