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Arabic study may have been cover for bomb suspect
Associated Press ^ | Dec.31, 2009 | AHMED AL-HAJ
Posted on December 31, 2009 12:41:13 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
SAN’A, Yemen (AP) - The Nigerian suspected of trying to bring down a U.S. airliner with explosives might have used Arabic studies as a pretext for entering Yemen before disappearing for months, perhaps into one of the lawless country’s al-Qaida strongholds, fellow students and teachers said.
Interviews with staff and students at the Institute for the Arabic Language this week have revealed that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was frequently absent from classes and spent at most one month at the school in Yemen’s capital, San’a, starting in late August before vanishing.
Authorities say he didn’t leave the country until December and that his whereabouts during that period remains a mystery.
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“TERRORISTS IN THE MAKING? Egypt Pursues Europeans Taking Arabic Classes”
SPIEGEL.de ^ | September 25, 2009 | This article has been provided courtesy of NRC Handelsblad.
Posted on October 2, 2009 1:05:56 PM PDT by Cindy