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Spirit Beam Through A Satellite (Final 4's George Mason is (gasp!) connected to U.A.E!)
Ass. Press/Washington Times ^ | March 30, 2006 | Jim Krane

Posted on 03/30/2006 11:10:26 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat

RAS AL KHAIMAH, United Arab Emirates -- There's a vague notion on this tiny satellite campus of George Mason University that basketball is played by bouncing a ball and tossing it toward a hoop. It's also starting to sink in that classmates on the other side of the world have done something remarkable.

"Go, Mason, go," yells 19-year-old Mohamed Eltigani, who was born in Sudan.

"Kun fi al-qimma," campus receptionist Khawla Yousef screams in Arabic, which means "Reach the top." Welcome to the real Mideast regional.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: basketball; final4; georgemason; gmu; marchmadness; ncaa; university
George Mason University needs to be REMOVED from the Final 4! We can't secure the city of a Atlanta when one of these teams has such a tight relationship with the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES!
How could the people in charge of the NCAA approve such a team for play in the tournament? The future of our young people is at stake.
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1 posted on 03/30/2006 11:10:28 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Echo Talon

thought you might like this. :)


2 posted on 03/30/2006 11:11:14 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Great point. Opening and operating a satellite in an Arab country is exactly like allowing Arabs to be intimately involved with access to our country.

Great thinking.


3 posted on 03/30/2006 11:23:35 AM PST by brownsfan (It's not a war on terror... it's a war with islam.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

your screaming is giving me a headache !


4 posted on 03/30/2006 11:25:54 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Where's Rush................ he just brought this up.


5 posted on 03/30/2006 11:58:36 AM PST by beyond the sea (Claire De Lune - ........ 1862)
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To: brownsfan
Yes, when Arabs are given access to the computers and, ultimately the property of the university, who is to say where it will end?

I am aghast at the complete disregard for the possibility that Al Qaeda sympathizing students might be accessing the records of one of our top universities.

Don't laugh--it could happen. Did you know Osama bin Laden once went to school in London? I'm kind of surprised we're even allowing the U.K. to be an ally in the War on Terror. Who knows how much info the billionaire-child Osama could have bought while he was a "student" in London?

Who is to say the same thing isn't happening at George Mason? It is just not worth the risk.

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6 posted on 03/30/2006 3:10:20 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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To: Recovering_Democrat

LOL


7 posted on 03/30/2006 5:13:40 PM PST by Echo Talon
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