Obama to speak on bomb plot report findings

The US White House is set to make public the findings of an unclassified account of the alleged attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day.



National Security Adviser James Jones has said Americans who read the report will be shocked.



The alleged bomber is reported to have met a radical US Muslim cleric after being recruited by al-Qaeda in London.



Yemen\'s Deputy Prime Minister Rashad al-Alimi says Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab met the cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in the province of Shabwa, having been recruited while a student at the University College London.



Abdulmutallab - a 23-year-old Nigerian - was arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to set off explosives hidden in his underpants on the Northwest Airlines flight, with 290 people on board.



Meanwhile, the US Muslim cleric has been linked to an attack by a US Army major on the Fort Hood base in Texas in November, in which 13 people died.