The director of the Arabic language institute in Sana’a, Yemen, where Umar Farouq Abdelmutaleb studied, says he did not have any reservations about the Nigerian citizen.
And his teacher describes him as a “gentleman and very polite … not a fanatic or radical”.
Al Jazeera’s Omar al-Saleh reports.
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