Plane bomber has provided 8216;actionable8217; intelligence to FBI: US

The FBI has said that Nigerian terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,charged in a botched al-Qaeda plot to blow up an American airliner,has provided useful "actionable intelligence" during his interrogation.

Nigerian terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,charged in a botched al-Qaeda plot to blow up an American airliner,has provided useful 8220;actionable intelligence8221; during his interrogation by FBI sleuths,the White House has said.

8220;FBI interrogators spent quite some time with him. I don8217;t want to get into all the specifics,but I think they would agree and I would say that he has provided in those interrogations useful intelligence,8221; White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said at his daily press briefing.

Abdulmutallab,a Nigerian national,has been charged with attempt to blow up a North West Airlines plane on December 25. The plane with nearly 300 people on board was coming from Amsterdam to Detroit.

8220;Abdulmutallab spent a number of hours with FBI investigators in which we gleaned useable actionable intelligence,8221; Gibbs said.

During his interrogation,Abdulmutallab has told the FBI that he received the training as well as explosives from the al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen. Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the attack. Gibbs,however,refrained from giving any further details about the interrogation.

8220;I8217;m not going to get into all of what he said,but again,I think the interrogators have believed that he has provided them with useful intelligence,8221; Gibbs reiterated in response to a question.

Meanwhile,the State Department said the visa of Abdulmutallab has been revoked.

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8220;At least one person Abdulmutallab you can say has lost his visa since December 25,8221; said P J Crowley,the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. In all,post 9/11 as many as 1,700 visas have been revoked of individuals suspected of having terrorist links.

However,Crowley did not give any figure for post-December 25 when the Nigerian national tried to blow up the US plane.