Teams of US anti-terrorism and security experts are headed to Yemen to help search for suspects in the mail bomb plot and to train cargo screeners at the San'a airport. The White House's top counterterrorism official told Yemen's presiden that his country has the lead in responding to the terrorists, according to a top Yemeni official. The Yemeni official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss high-level conversations between the US and Yemen that have taken place since the bombs, hidden in packed computer printers, were found Friday on planes.
The Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has been linked to the bomb plot because of the use of the explosive PETN, which was used by the group in last Christmas Day's bombing attempt of a Detroit-bound airliner.