TO curb the activities of student-terrorists, the Yemeni government said, on Tuesday, that it was tightening restriction on student visas like the one that allowed Farouk Abdulmutallab to enter Yemen.
It also denied knowledge of Abdulmutallab’s terrorist link in Yemen, but confirmed that Abdulmutallab spent two extended periods in Yemen. Disclosing this to the The Associated Press through its Information Minister, Hassan al-Lozy, the government said Abdulmutallab’s most recent stay in Yemen was from August to December to study Arabic at San’a Institute for the Arabic Language, where students and administrators reportedly described him as “friendly and outgoing with no overtly extremist views.”
He said the Yemeni government was trying to determine what he did during his periods of stay in their country. According to Al-Lozy, “Abdulmutallab lived in Yemen for two different periods of time, a year, from 2004-2005 and from August-December this year.”
He said he arrived in August after receiving a visa to study Arabic in the capital, San’a. Yemen’s Foreign Ministry had earlier on Monday confirmed that Abdulmutallab received a Yemeni visa after authorities were reassured that he had “several visas from a number of friendly countries.”
The Foreign Ministry noted that Abdulmutallab had a valid visa to the United States, which he had visited in the past. It said the embassy had now been instructed not to issue any more visas to students who want to study in the country without the Interior Ministry’s approval.
The principal of the school where he studied was being questioned on Tuesday. A United States federal court in Detroit said a hearing, which was scheduled for Monday for the trial of Abdulmutallab had been delayed until January 8. No reason was given for the delay.
Prosecutors wanted a DNA sample from Abdulmutallab. Meanwhile, the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, on Tuesday, provided insight into how Abdulmutallab dissociated himself from his family.
Akunyili said he had earlier told his parents he was going to Dubai for his masters programme, but changed his mind and said he would stay back in Nigeria to study the Shariah legal system for seven years.
According to the minister, the parents, unwilling to indulge Abdulmutallab, disapproved of the plan and this angered him, consequently sending a message to his parents that he would not correspond with them again.
The minister, who added that the screening measures at the Nigerian Airports were intact, said Abdulmutallab was properly monitored through the closed circuit television installed at the airport.
Meanwhile, leader of United States House of Representatives security committee has said that Abdulmutallab should be tried in a military, and not a civilian court.
The official said this became necessary, because it would be difficult to extract enough evidence from the accused if he is tried by the ordinary court.


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You people should stop posting rubbish. Yemen placed an embargo on visa for students in general. They didn't single out Nigerians.

En-ehn, e don start. You dey see as some kain people dey try scatter this country image so? Chicken Yemen na im dey place ban on us; wetin the other major countries go do, ? Una dey see am?

the boy actually said he liked yemen but now yemen doesnt like him oh.

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the blacks in that place go get extra problem sha