Posted on 08/08/2006 11:24:51 AM PDT by mojito
It's really a "BOHO" - Be On the Hear Out.
Listen to every roll call you come across.
"Ahmed."
"Ahmed."
"Buehler."
"Buehler."
"Mohamed."
"Mohamed."
If no one answers, they're still missing.
It's the cheapest way to go too, about $2200-2300.
I suppose we could help things along a lot by lighting up the sky that night in Cairo, Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad, Kabul, Amman, Islamabad, Riyadh...
I was hoping they were the new surprise replacement Houston Texans football team.
From: http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news&id=4442690
Excerpt: "(New York-WABC, August 8, 2006) - Eleven exchange students from Egypt are now missing. Police say the students failed to make a connecting flight out of JFK to Montana where they were going to study English at a university.
Investigators don't know where they are or where they could have gone. And federal agents are worried tonight about where they are and why they vanished without a trace....................................
Experts say what's troubling is that the FBI has been unable to track them either through e-mail messages or bank transactions."
Maybe the fertilizer store in Norman, OK?
Nationwide alert for 11 missing Egyptian college students suspected victims of foul play.
Thanks for finding that, Chena. So they were to be on a connecting flight. So it's even more suspicious they've not shown up, imo.
Or persons of interest...
SHIRLEYTOGAWD the FBI doesn't think terrorists are STILL operating through e-mail or bank transactions. Because if that's what they are basing our safety on, we are DOOMED>
Nah, that theory stinks. har har ;)
Okay, now I do have a bad feeling about this. If these guys just wanted an excuse to come over and earn a living, there are ways they could've done it that would have been less risky in term of drawing attention to themselves.
With the NYT broadcasting the fact that the FBI tracks "persons of interest" by those methods, do the "experts" actually believe that the Egyptians would be brain-dead enough to use e-mail or make bank transactions?
They've obviously found new ways to get under the radar. Maybe they've become other people and made themselves invisible. You know with identities like: Jose Garcia, Juan Vanterra, Jorge Hildado...
Thank you for the updated info, Chena!
Going long for the bomb?...
That doesn't sound good. If they're just out on a magnificent bender you'd think they'd need money and want to brag about the fine time they're having.
Yes, a connecting flight. Now why would all 11 Egyptian students decide NOT to get on their connecting flight. If they had decided to just spend some time in the area, wouldn't they have rented a car, or taken a taxi, or whatever. To just disappear without a trace. I tell ya, those little bells going off in my head are sounding more like huge gongs.
Ditto.
Mr. Mew just had a good point: If the Feds know enough to know where to look for e-mails and financial records, why no pics?
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