Posted on 08/13/2006 9:00:23 PM PDT by Rte66
08.13.2006, 11:31 PM
The last two of the 11 Egyptian exchange students who failed to show up at their college program were apprehended Sunday in Richmond, Va., customs officials said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Mohamed Saleh Ahmed Maray, 20, and Mohamed Ibrahim Fouaad El Shenawy, 17, at an apartment building in Richmond on Sunday night. Virginia State Police and the Richmond Police helped locate the students.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
And only a couple hours away from Norfolk Naval base....
Sorry to let you down ;)
Haven't heard if security is stepped up at VCU or not.
If it isn't, it should be. See my comment upthread about the VCU prof.
Most Freepers figured out that the attention on the missing students is very strange given the wide open borders. How hard would it be for someone to learn Spanish for a few years and come in undetected through Mexico?
It’s as if I spent all my efforts weather-stripping my windows while I forgot to install a front door.
Campaigning for Jim Webb.
The Times-Dispatch just said it was an apartment building in Richmond.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EGYPTIANS_MISSING?SITE=VARIT&SECTION=US
I've checked the Times-Disgrace's website, as well as WTVR and WWBT, and all they're doing is repeating this same story word for word. Way to do some freaking reporting, Richmond media.
I'll be very interested to hear where they found these guys. I live out here in the sort-of-far West End (Gaskins Road) and even in the past 18 months our apartments have turned into quite the melting pot. With the economy boom down here, Richmond has turned into a really surprisingly diverse area, with a proportionately huge Indian/Pakistani population thanks to a lot of need for tech workers.
}:-)4
I've been checking all of them as well.
Lazy journos.
Did all of the eleven arrive here on the same flight? I get the impression that they did, or that they were at some point togetther and/or aware of their companions with the same destination (Montana State Univ.). So how can a group of 11 young men "get lost"? And in their attempt to find their way to Montana and/or get un-lost, they pair off and end up dotted across the eastern half of the country - two days before authorities bust open a major terrorist plot. Pretty stinky to me....
"They caught two near Baltimore and two near Richmond. D.C. (and I)
are right between."
I'm ignorant of East Coast locations ...but maybe this helped
draw them to their areas:
http://www.sperryfiles.com/corridor.shtml
Too funny.
There is a strange little Sub Shop on the corner of Broad and the Boulevard that I've been curious about for a few years.
Long before that I stumbled across a Lebanese travel agency that had some odd clients one of whom had been visited by the feds the night before and was desparately trying to leave the U.S.
Then there was the Free Palestine gay crowd at VCU who harrassed Jewish students and guest speakers for awhile.
We had the guy in Chesterfield who was making ricin in his garage.
Richmond has some interesting stuff going on under the radar. I'm about ready for a tin foil hat.
"Richmond has some interesting stuff going on under the radar. I'm about ready for a tin foil hat."
No need for the hat when all this is really happening.
As someone pointed out earlier on this thread; Richmond is booming right now. We are attracting all sorts of people, and as we get closer and closer to a Dem state it has me more concerned than ever over elections.
Plus it doesn't help that our own press tell us little about what's really going on in our area.
Might ask the perp ~ see how he says "Bozeman Montana" ~ maybe it comes out "Richumond"
I'm getting more irritated. You can bet if the perps had been anything other than Moslem, every detail would be plastered all over the local media.
Including photos of them in handcuffs. Interesting.
Chesterfield County police developed the information that led to the arrests of the last two Egyptian exchange students who failed to show up for their college program in Montana.
Mohamed Saleh Ahmed Maray, 20, and Mohamed Ibrahim Fouaad El Shenawy, 17, were arrested without incident Sunday afternoon in the Forest Ridge Apartment complex off Forest Hill Avenue in South Richmond, said Chesterfield police Capt. Karl Leonard.
The apartment complex is across Forest Hill Avenue from the Stratford Hills Shopping Center.
"They were just sitting outside," Leonard said. "I don't know how long they had been in the area, or what they were doing in the area. But that's where we found them."
The men were the last of 11 Egyptian exchange students to be apprehended. The students were to attend a monthslong program at Montana State University in Bozeman. A group of 17 students had arrived in New York on July 29. Six reported to Bozeman on time.
After Montana State repeatedly tried to contact the missing students, it notified federal Homeland Security officials and registered the Egyptians as no-shows in a system to track foreign students developed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
None of the students is considered a terrorism risk.
Leonard said Chesterfield police received information on Saturday that the last two missing students were believed to have been seen walking on Midlothian Turnpike (U.S. 60).
Police distributed pictures and information about the students to street officers, who contacted merchants along Route 60, "trying to see if anybody had seen them," Leonard said.
Then, about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, police received a call that gave investigators "a pretty good indication that the people [the caller] saw were in fact these students."
Police began to canvass areas where investigators thought they might be, Leonard said.
Officers then went to the South Richmond apartment complex and spotted the students outside. Chesterfield summoned Richmond police, and the students were taken into custody without incident.
Chesterfield authorities turned them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Last Wednesday, one of the 11 Egyptian students was arrested in Minneapolis and two were detained in Manville, N.J. On Thursday, two were arrested in Dundalk, Md., and one was arrested at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Three more were arrested Friday in Des Moines, Iowa.
I knew they'd get them...I wonder how many times this has happened before. In those days, NO one looked for them and they took up residence here like the terrorist of 911.
These guys are all in custody.
I know that. My point is our local media has been unnaturally silent on the details of the arrest. Including where in the city the arrests occurred. Normally, we have wall to wall coverage of all the details including interviews of random bystanders. IMHO, it has been abnormally quiet regarding these arrests. Sheesh, I heard more about the bears in Maymont than I did about these people.
ICE didn't cut the "newsies" in on the details. They had these fellows scooped up and in detention before they could talk to anyone.
"If the perps had been, for example, Mexicans, you'd never heard anything at all about it"
It's the Muslims who want to kill us all (and that includes you), not the Mexicans.
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