Authorities in Yemen have released the female computer engineering student from custody that they suspected of mailing explosive packages, Fox News confirms.
Yemeni authorities concluded this was a case of stolen identity by an individual who knew the detained suspect’s name, address and telephone number.
The suspect has been fully cooperating with the investigation, authorities say.
Yemen will not allow the female suspect to leave the country at this time.
A Yemeni government security official tells Fox News that more arrests are likely to come.
“It’s not over, and more arrests will take place as early as the next couple of days. We have different suspects in mind and we will further investigate them,” the official said.
A spokesman for Qatar Airways said Sunday one of two powerful bombs mailed from Yemen to Chicago-area synagogues traveled on two passenger planes within the Middle East. The U.S. said the plot bears the hallmarks of Al Qaeda’s offshoot in Yemen.
U.S. officials said suspects in the plot include the bombmaker suspected of designing the explosive used in the failed Christmas airliner bombing. The bombmaker is a key operative in Al Qaeda’s offshoot in Yemen, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
Authorities were also looking at two language institutions in Yemen the plotters may have been associated with.
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(Source: Fox News)