This was only a 4 week summer course. The 11 who went this way and that and anywhere BUT to the college they were supposed to go to, have all been expelled from their school back home. Once they get back home, their lives will be over. Their parents paid thousands of dollars to send then here and some of the parents, who have been interviewed, thought it was perfectly okay to spend that kind of money to get the kid into the USA, so that he could work. They KNEW what was going to happen, once the boys got here and it wasn't going to college for 4 weeks in Montana.
At what sort of job that would make the initial investment worthwhile?
So, you're saying they came here to fan out, get lost in the chaos, and get jobs illegally like Mexicans and SAs do (only better jobs, of course)? In other words, illegally immigrate for employment? No doubt those jobs would be in Arab-owned or influenced companies. But I don't think so. I think it was to probe our security, as another poster suggested. Who knows if they really flunked out of college in Egypt or not? Maybe they did, and the only honorable recourse for them was to go to America, connect with a terror cell and become suicide bombers? The money to get them in could easily have come from Al-Qeada.