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The FBI is investigating the case of a 21-year-old Hamtramck man with a one-way ticket to Yemen who tried to board a plane with a knife hidden in a phone book.

Mohammed Ghanem, a native of Yemen, remains in jail after a Romulus judge set a $500,000 bond on Saturday. Ghanem was stopped on Thursday at Detroit Metro Airport by security officials with the Transportation Security Administration after they detected that he had a knife “artfully concealed” in a book, said airport spokesman Michael Conway.

Someone had carved out the inside of the phone book, and placed the knife inside it, said Ghanem’s attorney, Nabih Ayad. “He said he didn’t know where the knife came from,” Ayad said. Ghanem was on his way to Yemen to get married, he said.

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