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WASHINGTON — Eleven days before the failed Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, the Obama administration decided to target the Yemen-based al-Qaeda affiliate with financial sanctions, according to documents released Tuesday.
On Dec. 14, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signed papers designating al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as a “foreign terrorist organization.” The move placed the group’s two top leaders on a list of terror suspects subject to travel and financial penalties in U.S. jurisdictions, the State Department said.
