WASHINGTON (voa) – The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is urging police and the American public to be on the lookout for a man from Yemen and several associates believed planning to carry out a terrorist attack against the United States as early as Tuesday.
The alert released late Monday identifies the Yemeni national as Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei, who was born in Saudi Arabia in 1979. The warning says there is no evidence that he has already entered the United States. But the FBI says it will put pictures of Mr. Rabeei and his associates on its Internet Web site to help Americans identify them. The alert asks police to stop and detain any of the listed men, who its says should be considered extremely dangerous.
The FBI says the warning is based on credible intelligence, but it did not list a specific possible target, except to say it could be domestic or a U.S. interest in Yemen.
The FBI says the alert is based on information gathered from interviews of al-Qaida detainees held at the U.S. naval based at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
