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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Egypt&btnG=Search+News

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http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/08/08/egyptian.students/

"Egyptian students disappear in U.S.
FBI hunting 11 exchange students who didn't show up at school"
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Posted: 0207 GMT (1007 HKT)

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Immigration agents and the FBI are looking for 11 Egyptian students who entered the United States on valid student visas, then failed to show up at a university in Montana, authorities said."

ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "U.S. authorities are working with foreign intelligence agencies to make sure there is nothing suspicious in the students' backgrounds, federal sources said. Those sources added that 20 students applied for student visas to go to Montana State, but three of the applicants were denied.

"We do want to talk to them. But at this point there's no reason to believe they pose any criminal or terrorist threat," said Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Julie Myers, who heads Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The students were identified as:

• El Sayed Ahmed Elsayed Ibrahim, 20

• Eslam Ibrahim Mohamed El Dessouki, 21

• Alaa Abd El Fattah Ali El Bahnasawi, 20

• Mohamed Ragab Mohamed Abd Alla, 22

• Ahmed Refaat Saad El Moghazi El Laket, 19

• Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Abou El Ela, 21

• Mohamed Ibrahim Elsayed El Moghazy, 20

• Ebrahim Mabrouk Moustafa Abdou, 22

• Moustafa Wagdy Moustafa El Gafary, 18

• Mohamed Saleh Ahmed Maray, 20

• Mohamed Ibrahim Fouaad El Shenawy, 17"

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=Egypt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=Montana
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=Minnesota
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=NewJersey
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=NewYork

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676188/posts?page=523#523

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Thanks to freeperfromnj and nwctwx for the updates.

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/09/egyptian.students/index.html
"Three Egyptian students in custody; 8 remain missing
Group of 11 didn't show up at school in Montana"
From Kevin Bohn and Jeanne Meserve
CNN Washington Bureau
Wednesday, August 9, 2006; Posted: 3:40 p.m. EDT (19:40 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) --

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Two were found in New Jersey, according to two law enforcement officials, one of whom said they turned themselves in to authorities. No further information was available.

Eslam Ibrahim Mohamed El-Dessouki, 21, was arrested without incident about 11 a.m. (noon ET) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, according to a statement from FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko.

"El-Dessouki was taken into custody on an administrative immigration violation as an out-of-status student," Kolko said.

El-Dessouki "was located through source information," a federal law enforcement official said.

There was no indication what El-Dessouki was doing in Minnesota, but he was not visiting relatives, the official said."

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A source with knowledge of the investigation said the men, who range in age from 17 to 22, may be staying in New York, visiting relatives and trying to find jobs."