Al Qaeda makes women suicide bombers

Bangalore: U.S. security officials are warned to keep an eye out for women, carrying Western passports, who are believed to have escaped an attack on an Al Qaeda terror camp in Yemen. Former White House counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke said to Mail Online, "There are others who are still out there who have been trained and who are clean skins - that means people who we do not have a record of, people who may not look like Al Qaeda terrorists, who may not be Arabs and may not be men. They have trained women."

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the former British student accused of trying to detonate a bomb on a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day, told the FBI several other people trained with him in Yemen. Its not a new thing in Iraq and Israel to see female bombers blow themselves up but security sources regard the use of western-looking women for Al Qaeda attacks on the U.S. or Europe as 'inevitable'.

The warning came as Britain's security threat was raised to 'severe' - the second-highest level - ahead of two London conferences on Afghanistan and Yemen. They will be attended by leading figures from 60 countries, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

It was also partly prompted by warnings that Al Qaeda terrorists may be planning to hijack an Indian passenger airliner from Mumbai or Delhi and crash it into a city. The warnings from the Indian Intelligence Bureau - following the interrogation of suspect Islamist terror leader Amjad Khwaja - are said to have raised fears in London that the terrorists might have a British target in their sights.

Britain's terror alert level was reduced last July after standing at 'severe' for four years after the July 7 2005 bombing attack in London.

Courtesy: Mail Online

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