Posted on 08/08/2006 11:24:51 AM PDT by mojito
The FBI has issued an urgent nationwide alert for 11 Egyptian students who entered the United States last week but failed to show up for their courses at Montana State University.
An FBI advisory says there are, at present, no known connections to any terrorist group but that the students are to be "approached with caution" and taken into custody. They "are here illegally and wanted for questioning," the advisory says.
The advisory comes just over a month before the five-year anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks on the United States.
"This is of very serious concern and is being closely tracked," said Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
The FBI says the Egyptians arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on July 29 and disappeared. The advisory says the alert is nationwide but that there is specific concern the Egyptians may be on the Eastern Seaboard.
According to the advisory the 11 missing Egyptians are:
1. Ibrahim, El Sayed Ahmed Elsayed; DOB OF 4/29/1986.
2. El Dessouki, Eslam Ibrahim Mohamed; DOB OF 02/21/1985.
3. El Bahnasawi, Alaa Abd El Fattah Ali; DOB OF 04/02/1986.
4. Abd Alla, Mohamed Ragab Mohamed; DOB OF 02/15/1984.
5. El Laket, Ahmed Refaat Saad El Moghazi; DOB OF 09/01/1986.
6. El Ela, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Abou; DOB OF 02/02/1985.
7. El Moghazy, Mohamed Ibrahim Elsayed; DOB OF 08/08/1986.
8. Abdou, Ebrahim Mabrouk Moustafa; DOB OF 02/25/1984.
9. El Gafary, Moustafa Wagdy Moustafa; DOB OF 07/01/1988.
10.Maray, Mohamed Saleh Ahmed; DOB OF 09/12/1985.
11.El Shenawy, Mohamed Ibrahim Fouaad; DOB OF 08/12/1988.
John Fund, just as likely to show up in a Mac Donald's ---
fine and dandy... with bomb belts?
Color me disgusted. BOLO but no pictures.
Maybe I'll go rob a bank. It's so helpful to know the FBI no longer issues photographs to go along with BOLO's.
bbl
Yup. Low level consular officials possibly being bribed, allowing student visas to be issued to undesireables. Just lovely.
NOT ONE MENTION OF PHOTOS!
I guess we can all sleep better now.
Nothing to worry about.
FBI does not need the public's help.
Peach - did WSJ guy just say they were probably working at a McDonald's rather than building bombs in a basement?
Take care, Peach. 2 aspirins and a nice nap.
Yep -- wow -- good grief.
How many more enemy middle-eastern "students" are we gonna allow this government of ours to permit passage to OUR U.S.A. ?
Yes, something like that.
Peach - go lie down in a dark quiet room for a bit.
Hope you are better soon altho this "snow" piece from WSJ guy is giving me a headache also. arrrrrrrrrgh
And what did they mean about no other info being available? Yeah, right. Were these guys really students at Mansoura? If so, what were their majors? Are they the kids of the families called by the university? If so, do the family members know where their sons are? If so, where are they? If not, why don't they know? When was the last time they were in contact with their families? How did the young men leave JFK? Sheesh.
thanks. :o)
What good are those Egytian's names going to do us? You can be certain they are operating on bogus docs now. How about their passport photo's?
They're here just in time for Aug. 22.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679858/posts?q=1&&page=101
I doubt it will help but I just sent another short e-mail to Gibson.
Subject: WHY NO PICTURES OF MISSING EGYPTIAN STUDENT?
John, thank you for reporting on the disappearance of the Egyptian students. I wonder how the FBI expects us to be on the "look out" for these students when they have not released any photographs of them? Maybe you can find out?
Well that was a lot of nothing, wasn't it? However, that very fact makes me even more uneasy. Gibson doesn't usually mince words and he's smart enough to know that there ARE pictures of these "students" and yet he didn't mention that.
If there was bribery involved, they probably don't even HAVE photos of the Egyptians. Most likely the "students" slipped in under the wire.
Hmmmm...I didn't think of that angle.
What is the Montana university saying publicly about this?
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