Posted on 05/01/2008 12:15:56 PM PDT by beaversmom
A 17-year-old Afghani exchange student at Columbine High School checked his bags at Reagan National Airport over the weekend, and vanished.
Five other Afghani students on the same trip also are missing.
The U.S. State Department is investigating the disappearances of Mesbah Habibi and the others on the American Councils' Exchange trip.
Habibi e-mailed his host family late Monday or early Tuesday to say he was all right, but did not say where he was, said Lynn Setzer, spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Schools.
"This was not a Columbine trip," Setzer said Thursday. The trip to the nation's capital was organized by American Councils' Exchange.
Habibi had stayed with the Columbine host family since August. He was due to return to Colorado to finish the school year.
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Odd that all of the missing students are Afghani’s. Hopefully they are safe, just out joy riding and nothing more sinister is going on.
More terrorists brought into the country by the school unions.
Terrorist until proven innocent? I understand where you are coming from but let’s just hope it’s something innocent.
My guess is that they are just taking this opportunity to join the ranks of illegal aliens in this country. There is a large expatriate Afghan community in the DC area (lots of good Afghan restaurants here, too), so they could blend right in and no one would notice.
Bingo. There is a huge difference in the two standards of living. It's probably a plan to overstay their visas. The temptation to do so would be enormous.
I hope they’re enjoying the freedom they see young American collegians enjoying. I hope and pray.
Put their butts in jail...you don’t ‘disappear’ during an exchange program....only American kids are that ill mannered/rude/selfish, etc.
They COULD be kidnappings
This could be a case of an 'alien' abduction!
regarding : Put their butts in jail...you don’t ‘disappear’ during an exchange program....only American kids are that ill mannered/rude/selfish, etc.
My husband and I have hosted 3 exchange students (and couldn’t love them more if they were our own very American flesh & blood) and have been quite active with the exchange program. Trust me when I say that while 99% of the exchange students are better mannered that the “worst” 10% of American kids, there is that 1% that is just as bad or worse than the “worst” 10%. It could be quite easy to disappear.
Hope for the best.
Plan for the worst.
That could be.
Anything is possible.
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