WASHINGTON'The FBI rushed Monday night to issue its most specific terrorist alert since Sept. 11, warning that a Yemeni man and more than a dozen associates may be planning attacks in the United States or against U.S. targets in Yemen as early as Tuesday.
Authorities identified one possible attacker as Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei, a Yemeni national believed to have been born in Saudi Arabia in 1979. The alert said that al-Rabeei and up to 16 others from Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Tunisia may be plotting a terrorist assault.
No specific targets or methods of attack are known, but the report is deemed credible and came from interviews with al Qaeda prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said. None of the men named in the alert are known are to have entered the United States, one FBI official said.
