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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 vows to hunt extremists, Al-Qaeda claims jet attack AFP - Tuesday, December 29 Send IM Story Print US President Barack Obama makes a statement on a failed bid to blow up a transatlantic airliner at the Marine Corp Base in Kailua, on Hawaii island. Obama on Monday vowed an all-out pursuit of plotters of a failed Christmas Day bombing of a US-bound airliner, vowing "we will not rest" until they are captured and tried. Slideshow: Full Photo Coverage: War On Terror KANEOHE, Hawaii (AFP) - – President Barack Obama vowed to hunt down extremists wherever they plot attacks against the United States as Al-Qaeda claimed it hatched the attempt to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day. Obama pledged to "disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us -- whether they are from Afghanistan or Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia or anywhere where they are plotting attacks against the US homeland." The president said he had ordered a probe to find out how 23-year-old suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria managed to board a Detroit-bound plane from Amsterdam with an explosive device. "A full investigation has been launched into this attempted act of terrorism and we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable," Obama said in his first public comments since the botched attack. As millions of edgy air travelers endured stringent new security measures for flights around the globe, Obama was under massive pressure to ease frayed nerves and counter accusations his administration is soft on terror. "This was a serious reminder of the dangers that we face and the nature of those who threaten our homeland," Obama said, three days after catastrophe was narrowly averted on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. An Al-Qaeda affiliate in the Arabian peninsula claimed Monday it was behind the failed bombing and threatened new attacks on the West, US monitoring groups said. Related article: Al-Qaeda claims failed attack In an Internet posting the group said a "technical fault" caused the plot's failure, SITE Intelligence said. The statement was accompanied by a picture of Abdulmutallab, who was described as the "Nigerian brother," and boasted he "was able to breach all the modern and sophisticated technologies and checkpoints at the airports around the world," according to IntelCenter, another US monitoring group. "His act has dealt a huge blow to the myth of American and global intelligence services and showed how fragile its structure is." According to charging documents, Abdulmutallab tried to bring down the Airbus A330 with 290 people on board using a device containing PETN, also known as pentaerythritol, a high explosive. Related article: Airport scanners revisited The explosive material was allegedly sewn into his underwear and officials believe tragedy was averted only because the makeshift detonator failed to work properly before fellow passengers jumped on the would-be bomber. Obama has ordered a review of US no-fly lists after it emerged that Abdulmutallab was on a broad terrorist watch-list of 500,000 names but still had a valid US visa. He was added to the watch-list last month after his father told US embassy officials in Abuja that he was concerned by his son's increasing radicalism, but he was not on a no-fly list of roughly 4,000 names. Obama's security chief demanded to know how Abdulmutallab retained his visa, while Britain confirmed the 23-year-old had been placed on its security blacklist in May this year. "Clearly this individual should not have been able to board this plane carrying that material," said US Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. The suspect was moved from a hospital to a federal prison west of Detroit on Sunday. A hearing on Monday to address a request for a DNA sample was postponed and he is not due to appear in court until he is arraigned on January 8. With renewed questions being asked about air security, travellers in the United States were told to check in four hours ahead of scheduled departure times, while bomb-sniffing dogs were visible at airports across the country. Restrictions on passengers holding coats or blankets in their laps and entering restrooms for the last hour of their flights were later relaxed to be at the discretion of the individual air crews, CNN reported. Related article: Airport security But experts including Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with Teal Group Corp., said air traffic was not likely to be seriously affected. "Smaller incidents like these seldom have an impact, although a security overreaction could lead to even greater dissatisfaction among travelers, which helps weaken long-term traffic growth," he told AFP. In Nigeria, Abdulmutallab's family promised their full cooperation with security agencies and said his recent behavior had been "completely out of character." According to The New York Times, Abdulmutallab told FBI agents he was connected to an Al-Qaeda affiliate that operates largely in Yemen and Saudi Arabia by a radical Yemeni cleric whom he contacted online. American law enforcement officials, quoted anonymously by US media, have said the suspect confessed to receiving specific training for the attack from an Al-Qaeda bombmaker in Yemen. 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