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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America US, Britain widen anti-terror front in Yemen AFP - Monday, January 4 Send IM Story Print LONDON (AFP) - – The United States and Britain have agreed to finance a special counterterrorism unit in Yemen as US President Barack Obama for the first time blamed an Al-Qaeda branch in that Arab country for attacking a US airliner. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Obama also want to see a bigger peacekeeping force in Somalia to tackle violent radicalism in the region. "Downing Street and the White House have agreed to intensify joint US-UK work to tackle the emerging terrorist threat from both Yemen and Somalia in the wake of the failed Detroit terror plot," said a statement made public here. "Amongst the initiatives the PM has agreed with President Obama is US-UK funding for a special counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen." In Somalia, the document went on to say, "the PM and President believe that a larger peacekeeping force is required and will support this at the UN Security Council." Brown and Obama have discussed the situation in these two countries in a series of phone calls. Obama on Saturday accused a Yemen-based affiliate of Osama bin Laden's group of targeting the jet on Christmas Day. US General David Petraeus meanwhile held talks in Sanaa with Yemen's president. Obama, on vacation in Hawaii, promised to hold the affiliate, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), to account and said US probes were revealing new evidence about the suspected bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. "We know that he traveled to Yemen," Obama said in his weekly video address. "It appears that he joined an affiliate of Al-Qaeda, and that this group, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, trained him, equipped him with those explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for America." It was the first time that Obama had blamed the Al-Qaeda cell for the attack, though AQAP had previously claimed the thwarted bombing and US officials spoke of a "linkage" to the group. Adulmutallab is accused of trying to destroy a Northwest jet carrying 290 people as it approached Detroit by setting off explosives stitched into his underwear. The bid failed when he was stopped by passengers. On Friday, Britain called an international meeting on combating extremism in Yemen for London January 28, in parallel with a conference on Afghanistan drawing senior ministers or leaders from over 40 nations. Yemen praised the talks as a "step in the right direction that will mobilize international support for Yemeni development and its efforts to battle unemployment and the effects of poverty." Petraeus, the US regional commander, met Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday, the local Saba news agency said. Related article: Petraeus talks in Yemen Obama aides gave few details of the talks, which coincided with reports of American involvement in strikes against extremists there. "General Petraeus was in Yemen today as part of our ongoing consultations with and efforts in support of Yemen," a senior Obama administration official said on condition of anonymity. Obama was briefed on the talks by his top anti-terror official John Brennan. Saba said Petraeus praised Saleh "for the success of the operations" against Al-Qaeda, and reaffirmed Washington's support for Yemen in its efforts to fight terrorism. Meanwhile, CBS News, citing a US special operations expert Sebastian Gorka, reported that recent strikes on Al-Qaeda positions in Yemen, including cruise missile attacks, were led by the United States. Obama was expected back in Washington Monday, on the eve of a key meeting on the attack with chiefs of US spy agencies and government departments with national security responsibilities. Michael Leiter, director of the US National Counterterrorism Center, warned Saturday the Christmas Day attack would not be the last. "While this attempt ended in failure we know with absolute certainty that Al-Qaeda and those who support its ideology continue to refine their methods to test our defenses and pursue an attack on the Homeland," he said. The NCTC was set up after the September 11 attacks in 2001 exposed a disastrous lack of intelligence-sharing among US spy services, but has been one of a number of agencies criticized over the Northwest Airlines attack. Obama last week angrily denounced what he called "systemic" failures in the US intelligence and homeland security operation, and vowed to put them right. The wider threat from Islamic militancy was also underscored Saturday after Danish police charged a man linked to Somali Islamists with the attempted murder of a cartoonist notorious for his drawing of the prophet Mohammed. Related article: Danish cartoonist defiant The 28-year-old Somali national broke into the home of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard wielding an axe and was shot and wounded by police. 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