Terrorists arrested in Yemen
Yemen, Local, 2/16/2002

Officials at the US FBI said that five out of the 17 persons whose names stated by the FBI in the warning against a possible terrorist act against the US are actually held in Yemen.

News reports quoted officials as saying that the five persons were arrested before the FBI issued the warning last Monday against a possible terrorist attack.

In the said warning the FBI mentioned names for Fawaz Yahya al-Rabee who is a Yemeni born in Saudi Arabia and has several "false" names and 16 of his well- known partners.

On Monday the FBI issued the pictures of 13 of them at its Internet web-site as well as names of the other four name whose pictured were not published.

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