Al Qaeda bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, who is thought to be in Yemen, is linked to two explosive packages found on airplanes Friday, a federal official told CNN Sunday.
Separately, an engineering student has been arrested there as authorities investigate an apparent plot to bomb airplanes with devices hidden inside computer printers, a human rights lawyer in the poor Arab country told CNN Sunday.
The student, Hanan Al-Samawi, is a fifth-year student at Sanaa University, in the capital, said the lawyer, who said he has been asked to represent her.
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