Posted on 08/12/2006 6:38:47 AM PDT by callthemlikeyouseethem
Immigration officials have now picked up all but two of the eleven Egyptian exchange students who came to the U-S for a summer course in Montana but never showed up for classes.
U-S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tracked three of the students to Des Moines, Iowa, where they were arrested yesterday. Others were picked up earlier in New Jersey, Maryland, Chicago and Minnesota.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox23news.com ...
I don't. I think it's crazy. I live 5 minutes from the town that 4 of the hijackers flew into the Pentagon and Atta even came through. It is about 30 minutes from Dundalk.
The people who own the resturant in Dundalk are connected to another restaurant and convience store in the area. A few of them were arrested last year for connections to the harbor tunnel plot. Two of the kids were 'working' at the restaurant this past week. They showed up while the American wife was out of town for a week. A few of the store owners, managers of the guys have Peace Orders on them, Fire Arms charge. A few have been deported because there was a mole in the group. I don't know, too many people connected to a similar charge at the harbor tunnel. Each one caught (don't know about the chicago guy) has an Egyptian connection and ended up there with the excuse 'I got lost'.
Can you spell "Florida"?
The Feds are trying to keep a lid on it for fear of tipping off the New York Times...
Two things I am wondering (hopefully have not already been brought up):
1) Would it be too wild to think that this was a test run, i.e. a way of testing how long it would take the Feds to find these guys? Thus, using this to gauge a "real" run by another group of students in the near future. I don't see this as very likely.
2) Could it also be possible that these clowns are merely decoys, an attempt to send the Feds on a wild-goose chase while a real group of terrorists are carrying out an act of terrorism? It has been noted that the disappearance occurred two days before the UK bust. Perhaps this was meant as distraction.
A suicide????? I'm no expert on suicide, but whenever I hear or read about someone committing suicide it's done while they're alone. Strapping on explosives and attending a football game doesn't quite fit the suicide profile, unless of course you are a "suicide bomber".
And another thing, college students failing to show up for class becomes a matter for the FBI??? Hello....does the goverment think ALL of us are that dumb?
Yeah. If they'd "lost" $1,000 (this was the alleged cause of their failure to show up at U Montana), -- WHERE THE HECK ARE THEY GETTING ALL THAT CASH TO BUY MORE FLIGHT TIX, JET SET ALL AROUND THE U.S.??
AND, WHY ARE THEY FLYING ALL OVER THE PLACE??
Doesn't make sense
Huh. I didn't know that.
That building isn't the one behind which I played as a kid.
They must have built a newer, bigger one. I don't remember ever seeing that little one, and I thought I had been all over Cedar Rapids.
FWIW, all the Muslims I knew in C.R. (a handful at best) were the nicest people.
Mustn't "offend" any muslims in America by hinting that some of them have desires of killing some of us.
I have been following the cell phone arrests. It seems very strange. It could be connected with the Egyptian students...or not. Of the two, I am more worried about the cell phone guys...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/13/nplot13.xml
University students at centre of terror plots
By Roya Nikkhah, Andrew Alderson and Julie Henry
(Filed: 13/08/2006)
"The recruitment of Muslim students at British universities to take part in terrorist attacks is at the heart of the alleged plot to blow up passenger jets, it is feared....."
Could be these Egyptian students were recruited at their universities as well.
I heard on the radio this morning.
Here is a link to Frequently Asked Questions regarding the Exchange Program between Montana State University and Mansoura University in Egypt
The title is misleading as the answer to one of the questions is that Montana has not sent any students to Egypt; it's not truly an exchange of students.
Another tidbit is that a trip to Yellowstone National Park is part of the students' curriculum. Reading this Q & A does not ease my mind.
"American" universities are overwhelmingly anti-conservative and anti-American, yet avid for the extra dollars provided by foreign students, to whom they provide not only info about our country but an entree to our society, should students overstay their visas.
Overstaying a visa is the most common means of immigrating illegally.
The 6 o'clock news here in Des Moines showed a picture of the Polk County jail where the three are being held but the feds will not say where they found them in DSM. ICE would not allow the station to show their photos either.
Huh ?
All those figures tell you is that only 12.4% of Muslims in the US are Arab. It says nothing about what percentage of Arabs in the US are Muslim. 100% of the Arabs could be Muslim according to these statistics,and they could still only make up 12% of all Muslims.
OK here you go:
63% of Arabs in the United States are Christians, according to an article at Opinion Journal (WSJ)
http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110008591&mod=RSS_Opinion_Journal&ojrss=frontpage
Maybe the new exchange program is exchanging US students for terrorists.
I used to work with one who kept a prayer rug in his cubicle. Every day at 2 PM (if I recall correctly), he'd face Mecca, kneel on that rug, and pray to his god. He was nice enough but, not the "nicest" by any measure.
bttt
Thats how it all works, and CAIR and The Arab League are currently lobbying for illehgal immigrant amnesty to speed this dynamic along.
Essentially these Egyptians are here to shop for a bride and American citizenship, for once they marry, they are here to stay.
Watch to see if any of these POS get married before they have their respective deportation hearings.
They are about as spread out as the "cell phone buyers."
Do you have a source for that? That'd make a great lead-in to a question at the next news conference...
Prayers up!
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