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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, alleged to have tried to bring down a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, met al Qaeda elements in Yemen, and may have also met a radical U.S.-born Islamic preacher, a focus of past U.S. counterterrorist probes, according to a high-ranking Yemeni official.

Yemeni Deputy Prime Minister Rashad al Alimi, speaking to a news conference in the capital San’a, said Mr. Abdulmutallab may have met Anwar al Awlaki in Yemen’s southern Shabwa province, after Mr. Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian citizen, slipped out of San’a in late September, where he had been studying. Shabwa is one of at least three provinces known to be al Qaeda strongholds in Yemen.

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