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US Student Held in Yemen Anti-Terror Sweep

30 foreigners with alleged al-Qaeda links nabbed

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 7, 2010 2:28 AM CDT

(Newser) – At least one American student is among dozens of foreigners who have been busted in Yemen for alleged links to al-Qaeda. More than 30 foreign nationals, including a Briton, an Australian, and several French citizens, were arrested after an anti-terror sweep over the last week, according to security officials. Most of the terror suspects are students of Arabic at the same school in the Yemeni capital where "underwear bomber" suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab studied, reports the Times of London.

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A Yemeni security armored vehicle patrols in the capital, San'a. (AP Photo/Mohammed al-Qadhi, File)

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Some of them were arrested on suspicion of belonging to al-Qaeda while others were arrested according to lists provided to Yemen security forces by US intelligence. - A Yemeni security official

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