aid to the Nicaraguan Contras." Yemen On December 27, 2009, Lieberman commented on reports that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who had allegedly tried to set off a suicide bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on December 25, 2009, had subsequently confessed to being trained and equipped in Yemen. Lieberman called for the Obama administration to pre-emptively attack Yemen and to halt plans to repatriate Yemeni captives in Guantanamo. References Joe Lieberman Lieberman, Joe Lieberman, Joe Political positions of the 2004 United States presidential candidates