Monday, December 28, 2009

SPB News for Monday


Obama Orders Travel Security Review Into Flight 253 Incident

More Details Emerge About Why Suspect's Name Didn't Raise Red Flags

Rep. Clyburn will support bill without public option

Terror suspect out of hospital, held at undisclosed location Airline bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was out of a Michigan hospital Sunday... Abdulmutallab, 23, is charged with trying to set off an explosive device aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from the Netherlands shortly before its landing in Detroit on Christmas Day. He was released from a hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, after being treated for burns suffered in the attack and was being held in an undisclosed location, according to Gina Balaya, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Detroit.

Yemen confirms receiving US military support The Yemeni national security chief has declared that the country is receiving assistance from the US in the crackdown on what he called 'al-Qaeda operatives' in southern Yemen. Mohamed al-Anisi has told the Saudi Arabian newspaper Okaz that Yemeni forces were cooperating with the US military on attacks against al-Qaeda camps, DPA reported on Saturday. Yemen's confirmation comes as an ABC report revealed that US President Barack Obama had signed the order for a recent military strike on Yemen in which scores of civilians, including children, were killed.

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