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The TV channel quoted Downing Street officials as saying the two countries would jointly fund a counter-terrorism police unit in the Asian state. The decision was taken following an alleged Christmas Day bomb airline attack over Detroit.
A 23-year-old Nigerian national, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a passenger on board an A330 passenger jet bound from Amsterdam to Detroit on December 25, tried to blow up the plane that was carrying some 300 people. He was detained and charged with attempted terrorist attack.
CNN said quoting a senior U.S. government source Gen. David Petraeus, head of the U.S. Central Command, met with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen on Saturday. Saleh reportedly offered more support for U.S. counterterrorism efforts and pledged to continue providing assistance for the investigation into the attempted airline bombing.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday the bomb suspect was apparently trained by a Yemen-based Al Qaeda offshoot.