U.S. Probes Links Between Bomb Plot And Guantanamo Detainees -- Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- U.S. investigators are pursuing possible links between the Christmas Day airline bomb plot and former Guantanamo Bay prisoners now thought to be leaders of an al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen.
Defense Department documents released earlier this year show that Said Ali al-Shihri and Muhammad al-Awfi, released from Guantanamo in 2007, are thought now to be leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemeni group that Monday claimed responsibility for the bombing attempt on Northwest Airlines Flight 253.
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