(Analyst's note:  Troubling.)

LONDON – A new terror security alert has been posted by MI5 at Britain's major airports based on information from alleged Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who revealed to his FBI interrogators that at the Yemen training

camp where he learned suicide bomber tactics were two "non-Arab" women receiving similar training, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

The 23-year-old London University student from Nigeria said the two women left the camp before he did.

Abdulemutallab is charged with trying to blow up an airliner as it approached the Detroit airport Christmas Day.

The terrorism suspect has told the FBI he believes the women were converts to Islam, and he thought they spoke with a northern England accent.

More than a third of Britain's 2 million Muslims live in the Midlands. Last year MI5 opened its own provincial headquarters there, the largest outside its London headquarters at Thames House.

There are more than 100 intelligence officers, with a support staff of linguists and interpreters, based in the north of England. They maintain surveillance on the widespread Muslim communities and have reported that increasingly women have been attending lectures by radical preachers.

Many of them have British passports and make regular trips to the birthplace of their parents in Pakistan, Yemen and other countries where al-Qaida maintains recruiting efforts.

There also has been an increase in the use of young Muslim women born in the Midlands who speak with the distinctive local dialects.

Richard Clarke, a former White House counter-terrorism adviser, said, "Al-Qaida has trained women who are still clean skins – that means people who we do not have a record of, people who may not look like al-Qaida terrorists, who may not be Arabs, and may not have been born in the U.K."