Arabic study may have been cover for bomb suspect (AP)

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The San'a Institute for the Arabic Language in San'a, Yemen is seen Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009, where Nigerian suspect in the Christmas Day airline attack Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was an Arabic student. The San'a Institute for the Arabic Language told The Associated Press that Abdulmutallab was an Arabic student at the school in August. Administrators at the school said Monday that the director of the school, Muhammad al-Anisi, has spent two days being questioned by Yemeni security officials. He remained in custody Tuesday. (AP photo)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.


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