Government officials have been told that female suicide bombers may be trying to enter the United States, according to a published report.
At least two of them may have ties to al Qaeda in Yemen, the same group connected to Christmas Day underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, ABC News reported.
An official said those women may not look Arab and might be traveling on a Western passport, according to the network.
The threat was described as “current” as opposed to imminent, but the intelligence comes the same week that an “unusually high” number of people on the no-fly list tried to board flights into or out of the United States.