A woman has been arrested in the Yemeni capital on suspicion that she was involved in sending two explosive devices found on cargo planes bound for the United States, the president of Yemen said Saturday. Security officials went to a house in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, to arrest the woman a day after the plan was thwarted on Friday, President Ali Abdullah Saleh said. He told reporters the United States and the United Arab Emirates provided him with information that identified the woman as a suspect. Yemeni security officials said the woman was detained as authorities search for a number of suspects believed to have used forged documents and ID cards that played a role in the plot. Dubai police confiscated a suspicious package aboard a U.S.-bound FedEx plane. The other package was found in the cargo area of the Midlands East airport, north of London, before it could be loaded onto an aircraft operated by the parcel company UPS.
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