[muawiyah]

Dundalk ~ how you get there from Manassas. Well, you catch a cab with an Arab to Baltimore ~ probably cost about $150, max, for 5 guys.

Remember, Manassas is a world center for urology ~ this is where Mr. Bobbit got chopped, and fixed, in the same night. Not going to find that sort of thing just anywhere ~ microsurgeons, urologists, etc.

I can see these guys being misled by a guy working at JFK as a janitor or a cabbie finding themselves as fill-in on a training flight in a light plane to Manassas instead of Montana (which probably looks pretty much the same in Arabic).

Happens all the time.

BTW, you get to Indianapolis on a Grayhound, and ask for the bus to Bloomington, they go to Bloomington MN and IL, but not IN.

[kinoxi]

They were arrested (The 2 in Dundalk) in a private residence. I have no idea of the amount of foreign student visas issued every year but for this many from one country (one visa program) to get 'lost' in so many cities simultaneously seems unprecedented. I unfortunately don't share your optimism that this may have been unplanned.