Posted on 02/27/2006 12:06:23 AM PST by Elle Bee
......... "In some ways," Mr. Rahmatullah told the New York Times. "I'm the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale." One of the courses he has taken is called Terrorism-Past, Present and Future.
Many foreign readers of the Times will no doubt snicker at the revelation that naive Yale administrators scrambled to admit Mr. Rahmatullah. The Times reported that Yale "had another foreigner of Rahmatullah's caliber apply for special-student status." Richard Shaw, Yale's dean of undergraduate admissions, told the Times that "we lost him to Harvard," and "I didn't want that to happen again."
"...........After the fall of the Taliban, he resumed a friendship he had developed with Mike Hoover, a CBS News cameraman who, according to a 2001 Associated Press story, had visited Afghanistan three times as a guest of the Taliban. Mr. Hoover inspired Mr. Rahmatullah to think about going to the U.S. to finish his studies. "I thought he could do a lot as a student/teacher," said Mr. Hoover. He persuaded Bob Schuster, an attorney friend of his from Wyoming who had gone to Yale, to help out. As the Times reported, "Schuster called the provost's office to ask how an ex-Taliban envoy with a fourth-grade education and a high-school equivalency degree might go about applying to one of the world's top universities."
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Repost and adding a date for clarification purposes:
ON THE NET...
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=%22Sayed+Rahmatullah+Hashemi%22&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=%22Hashemi%22&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d
stepping back in time to 2001...
http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/15042001/art28.htm
"Taleban point of view
Why we destroy statues? - ii"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Sayyid Rahmatullah Hashemi, the roving Ambassador of Afghanistan, gave a talk at the University of Southern California on 10 March which was reproduced in the previous issue. A session of questions and answers followed the talk. Following are excerpts:"
How many Americans are more than qualified than this GED'd cave man? And why do they not get first opportunity ? Makes me wonder if being an American, in America, really matters anymore? Ya know, I feel like we have been sold out. (Sorry for the rant)
He is only another happy go lucky mass murderer, heck! The boy next door!
Dang, could be I am not engaging in hyperbole with this "boy next door" stuff. Liberal neighborhoods are really strange. Klebold and Harris (the Columbine pair) had liberal parents and lived in a liberal neighborhood. Hmm.
Maybe Al wasn't strident enough.
"One of the courses he has taken is called Terrorism-Past, Present and Future."
Oh pleeese, tell me this is a joke!
ping
Words fail.
They tend to send letters like this out all the time to applicants. Here is one from their database (translated from the jaberwocky that hides the real message the school sends to any applicant that they discern is conservative) that in this case actually applies!
Nothing agianst the GED. I recieved a private email saying,
"There is nothing wrong with a GED (General Education Diploma), it is admirable that people choose to learn something and go back to college, albeit you normally enroll in a junior college once you earn a GED."
I can only agree and I apologize for any misunderstandings.
"One of the courses he has taken is called Terrorism-Past, Present and Future."
I bet he gets an A++++++
I'd like to know who allowed him into the country...It was not the school.
Happened did'nt it??
2)what difference does it make? there are all kinds of similar foreigners already attending our colleges
3)all you knee-jerk critics are simply anti-Arab bigots
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Al washed out of Vanderbilt... Daddy couldn't swing Yale.
Not after Al's poor showing as an undergrad at Harvard.
if only it weren't true makes you wonder what he's going to do with his education
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Well,..at least he's a well qualified terrorist. /sarcasmm off
Love to see him explain to the Yale 'Gay-Lesbian Alliance' why bulldozing walls on homosexuals was a good idea.
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