A patrol of the police forces detained the American who appeared on a wanted blacklist by the country's security authorities in downtown Ataq, the provincial capital of Shabwa, and transferred him with a military helicopter to the capital Sanaa, the police officer said on condition of anonymity.
The captured U.S. national was a Muslim and had three passports in his possession -- two American and one German, according to the officer.
"The U.S. citizen was arrested while having a meal in a hotel, but his entry into Shabwa province, was unclear and suspicious," the officer said.
The security authorities suspected the American might have links with terrorists in Shabwa, the ancestral homeland of the slain U.S.-Yemeni cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki, al-Qaida's most dangerous English-speaking propagandist in Yemen, the source added.
The Yemeni government troops have launched an intensive military campaign with the support of the United States and Yemen 's oil-rich neighbor Saudi Arabia to uproot the al-Qaida militants in the southern regions.
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