http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=988413
“Terror suspect attended Aussie-run uni
14:50 AEST Tue Dec 29 2009
SNIPPET: “Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was studying for a master’s degree in international business at the University of Wollongong’s campus in Dubai, vice-chancellor Gerard Sutton said on Tuesday.
Abdulmutallab took classes for about seven months, from January to the middle of 2009.
He defied his family’s pleas to remain at the university and graduate by travelling to the terrorism hotbed of Yemen to study Arabic and Sharia law, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The 23-year-old vanished from the Dubai campus about mid-year, Professor Sutton said.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/12/flight-253-jihadists-hometown-he-learned-about-that-jihad-stuff-somewhere-else.html
(REUTERS, December 27, 2009)
Posted December 28, 2009
“Flight 253 jihadist’s hometown: he learned about that jihad stuff somewhere else”
SNIPPET: “One friend who knew him in London said he kept himself to himself and always wore a skullcap, rare among young Nigerian Muslims who usually wear such caps only on religious occasions.
Nigeria’s This Day newspaper said he had been given the nickname “Alfa” — a local term for an Islamic scholar — while at school in Togo, for his preaching to other students.
He also made two trips to Yemen during his student days for short Arabic and Islamic courses, according to a family friend....”