Al Qaeda Suspect Named in FBI Alert Is Arrested
From Times Wire Reports
A suspected Al Qaeda member named in a year-old FBI terrorism alert was one of 11 people arrested in Yemen, police said. Fawaz Yahya Al-Rabeei was one of 17 people linked to Al Qaeda in a February 2002 FBI alert that warned of a potential attack on the United States or against U.S. interests in Yemen.
He was arrested March 28 with 10 others in the northern province of Marib after a helicopter chase, a police official said.
Al-Rabeei, also known as Furqan, is believed to be a Yemeni national born in Saudi Arabia.
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