Another US Qaeda suspect held,again Yemen connection

Roman Castro,25,who did a tour with the US Army in Iraq,said the last time he saw Mobley,about four years ago,Mobley yelled,Get the hell away from me,you Muslim killer!

Mobley,a 26-year-old US citizen,was identified by Yemeni officials as a Somali-American. He moved to Yemen about two years ago,supposedly to learn Arabic and study Islam,a former neighbour said. Between 2002 and 2008,he had worked as a labourer at three nuclear power plants in New Jersey.

The FBI,the State Department and other authorities said they were trying to gather information about Mobley. But the allegations by Yemen appeared to illustrate a phenomenon US intelligence officials have been warning about: more and more American Muslims are becoming radicalised and joining terrorist movements overseas.

Mobley was among 11 Qaeda suspects detained this month in a security sweep in Sana. He was taken to a hospital over the weekend. At the hospital,however,Mobley snatched a gun from a security guard and fatally shot a guard and wounded another before being captured,said Mohammed Albasha,spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington.