al Qaeda Training Women for US Suicide Attacks

Additional details have been released since we first reported airline security officials are on the lookout for possible female suicide bombers traveling with western passports on U.S. bound flights.

Intelligence officials issued the alert believing the women may have been trained by Al Qaeda in Yemen.

“U.S. intelligence does believe that there are other suicide bombers out there who have been give missions to attack the United Sates and they have not been found,” said ABC News consultant Richard Clarke.

Authorities told ABC News they received the information from accused Northwest airlines bomber, Umar Abdulmutallab. He provided the FBI with specific names and descriptions of others who trained with him in Yemen.

“There are also women who have been trained. So Al Qaeda is looking to put together an attack using people that would not fit a profile that we'd be looking for,” said Clarke.

US officials say in one 48-hour period last weekend, six different people on the no-fly list were stopped from boarding US flights.

Two of them at London's Heathrow airport attempting to board flights on American Airlines to Miami and a United Airlines flight to Chicago.

The four others were stopped attempting to board flights in Nairobi, Kenya, the Caribbean island of Saint Maarten, in Fort Lauderdale and Minneapolis.

via Al Qaeda training women for US suicide attacks – Source – abc7.com.