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The NationalA Nigerian man accused of attempting to blow up a jetliner over the United States on Christmas Day had recently been enrolled at the Dubai branch of a prominent Australian university.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, started at the University of Wollongong in Dubai in January but left in July, for unknown reasons, said Mohamed Khalifa, vice president of academics at the university.
“We have no idea why he left,” Mr Khalifa told The National yesterday. “He did not complete any degree with us and he is no longer a student with us.”
A current student at the Wollongong satellite campus said he recalled encountering Mr Abdulmutallab during the previous school year in a game of pick-up basketball on a court at The Lakes in Dubai. “He was a decent basketball player,” said Mohammed Marzouqi, 22, from Algeria.
Located in Dubai Knowledge Village, University of Wollongong’s satellite campus is a privately funded institution founded in 1993 that offers more than a dozen business-related undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
Mr Khalifa declined to identify Mr Abdulmutallab’s course work or activities at the university, citing “student privacy protocol”.
But news organisations, including The Wall Street Journal, reported that he had been enrolled in a master’s course at the university, which instructs approximately 3,500 undergraduate and graduate students from 108 countries...
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This places the bomber in Dubai up until July.