Posted on 05/23/2006 11:24:56 PM PDT by STARWISE
TAMPA - Two Saudi men jailed last week after being accused of boarding a school bus and riding to a New Tampa high school could be released as early as today after federal and local authorities determined the pair are in this country legally and are not a security risk.
Mana Saleh Almanajam, 23, and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, 20, were charged with trespassing on school property Friday. A day after their arrest, the $250 bail was revoked by a judge to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement time to investigate the two men.
Monday, ICE Special Agent in Charge Robert Weber said investigators found Almanajam and Alsidran are here legally on student visas and that immigration holds would not be imposed.
"In a nutshell," he said, "we determined what their status was and that it did not require any immigration detention. They are not here illegally."
The two University of South Florida students, enrolled in the English Language Institute, were held in isolation at Orient Road Jail, said sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway, "for everybody's safety."
He said detectives over the weekend concluded the men meant no harm when they boarded a school bus at Fletcher Avenue and 42nd Street early Friday morning.
"We determined that they were apparently just confused," Callaway said. "There is nothing else to lead us to file more criminal charges."
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Ping!!
"They are not here illegally."
Neither were the 9-11 hijackers!!! These fricking burecrats are goin to end up with blood on their hands one of these days.
Stupidity. Were the 9/11 hijackers here illegally?
Ping.
Confused - I'll say.
We were going to the mall, I mean university, I mean high School. We are from Morrocco, I mean Saudi Arabia.....
"We determined that they were apparently just confused"
Yeah, that's the ticket...
University of South Florida. Sami Arian's base and a meeting ground for terrorists.
I sincerely hope that the only reason they are released is so that the authorities can find out who their friends are.
Like any two other people whose kids aren't on the bus, because they are Muslims they can ride along for free.
Political correctness run amok. This was a dry run, or I'll wear a skirt to work tomorrow.
where do you work?
We joke a lot here about implanted microchips and government tracking from super-sercret-stealth satellites. But if I could badge just two people, these guys would be the two...
Man, I hope we took their DNA and fingerprints because we will hear from them again.
Almanajam and Alsidran didn't look out of place at first, she said, but when they didn't speak the language, the students brought it to the driver's attention.
If these kids are given "sensitivity training", we truly will be on the road to losing this thing.
Remember All 3 of these names.
If this was a trial run and and they make an attempt to do harm to these kids, that school or any others I want this guy [Charge Robert Weber] on trial right along with them.
Lying to the cops during an investigation ain't a crime?
Come on guys they were just confused.
They were confused about what country they came from Morrocco not Saudi Arabia.
They were confused about the bus but they were just going to the school to have some fun and to learn english, but they didn´t know it was a school bus.
I hope they were let go so the LE can stick a micro scope up their a$$es.
Add this name: Judge Marke Wolfe. He released the two Saudis yesterday without bail. I wonder what the judge who revoked bond, Monica Sierra, thinks about it.
Unfortunately, no books or bookbags would mean they looked like they belonged, LOL. I travel past a high school when classes are just getting out, and I am amazed at the number of kids leaving the school without books or bookbags.
Aparently, Muslims can't learn English unless they come to the USA. Stupid. After 9/11, we still haven't learned a thing.
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