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Sanaa (AFP) Oct 30, 2010 Yemeni security forces arrested on Saturday a woman suspected of sending two allegedly Al-Qaeda linked parcel bombs after surrounding her house in Sanaa, the defence ministry said. "Yemeni security forces arrested a woman suspected of sending two parcel bombs," the ministry announced. "The girl arrested is a medical student at Sanaa University and she was arrested with her mother in a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Sanaa," a security official told AFP. "Her father is a petroleum engineer who works with a company in the Hadramawt province," east of Yemen. Yemeni security services found the girl's mobile phone number on the parcels' receipt, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. Earlier, President Ali Abdullah Saleh said security forces had surrounded the house where the woman was staying. "Yemen's national security services received information that a girl has sent the parcels from the two cargo companies," Saleh said, apparently referring to UPS and FedEx, the two US package delivery firms through which the parcels were sent. However, "everything we are hearing until now is only from the media and we have not received any confirmation from the United Kingdom or from Dubai police that those two parcels were examined and that they contain explosives," he told reporters. US President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan appeared to lean heavily on Yemen on Saturday, calling the country's president for the second time in two days and reiterating a US call for "close" counterterrorism cooperation in the wake of the disrupted bomb plot. In the call to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Obama's advisor "underscored the importance of close counterterrorism cooperation, including the need to work together on the ongoing investigation into the events over the past few days," the White House said. In response, Saleh vowed that "Yemen is determined to fight terror but will not allow anyone to intervene in its affairs." Two suspected Al-Qaeda parcel bombs destined for the United States and sent from Sanaa were intercepted in Dubai and Britain on Friday.
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