KUALA LUMPUR: An Iraqi, who claimed that he was with Malaysian student Mohd Abdullah Osman before the latter was detained by US troops in Iraq, has been picked up by police here for allegedly trying to extort money from the student’s family.
Police arrested the Iraqi, in his 30's on Thursday after Mohd Abdullah's mother Faridah Abdullah, 56, lodged a police report regarding her son’s problem in Iraq.
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