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Islamic Student Visas
WomensWallStreet ^ | 05/29/2007 | Annie Jacobsen

Posted on 05/31/2007 6:08:21 PM PDT by mo

On October 15, 2006, a young Saudi Arabian male named Anwar Al——,* (His full name will not be used for legal reasons) claiming to be an engineering student at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, presented what must have been false documents to United States Customs and Immigration (CIS) at an east coast airport and managed to slip into the country illegally. This is something that is not easily done: for a citizen of Saudi Arabia to get into the United States to attend an institution of higher learning requires the scrutiny of multiple, Cabinet level federal agencies. Customs was the last line in a series of Homeland Security controls that began halfway around the world at the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Anyone who has picked up a newspaper since September 11, 2001 understands why this is the procedure: fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were Saudi nationals.

(Excerpt) Read more at womenswallstreet.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bordersecurity; immigration; terrorism
http://www.womenswallstreet.com/columns/ArticlePrint.aspx?aid=1222

Fellow Freepers.. read this and wheep... Here we are FIVE years following 911 and this occurs...Why we contemplate giving them control who have been proven not EVEN able to control their OWN zippers is beyond me....

1 posted on 05/31/2007 6:08:22 PM PDT by mo
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To: mo

http://www.womenswallstreet.com/columns/ArticlePrint.aspx?aid=1222


2 posted on 05/31/2007 6:09:38 PM PDT by mo
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I still don’t get why foriegners have to come here to study? What.. they don’t have engineering schools anywhere else?


3 posted on 05/31/2007 6:10:24 PM PDT by rbosque (L)
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I still don’t get why foriegners have to come here to study? What.. they don’t have engineering schools anywhere else?

They like the laid-back atmosphere at most colleges ...

4 posted on 05/31/2007 6:13:12 PM PDT by Ken522
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...and the drunken parties I suppose.


5 posted on 05/31/2007 6:21:37 PM PDT by rbosque (L)
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To: mo

6 posted on 05/31/2007 6:22:42 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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echelons of six, US federal agencies—DHS, TSA, FAMS, ICE, JTTF, FBI—

Geez,”Homeboy” Security doesn’t seem to have enough inept,useless,expensive, bureaucratic deadbeat depts. in its fold.Maybe the Bush Admin can add another 6 or 7 more to make it,you know MORE expensive and useless. By the way the last big bust of terrorists here in our country was courtesy of a guy who works for CIRCUIT CITY! Go figure !!!


7 posted on 05/31/2007 6:33:15 PM PDT by Obie Wan
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All immigration should have ended at 12:01 a.m. on Sept. 12, 2001.

NOBODY SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED IN. NOBODY.


8 posted on 05/31/2007 7:01:00 PM PDT by ishabibble (ALL AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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"I still don’t get why foriegners have to come here to study? What.. they don’t have engineering schools anywhere else?"

They come to be educated in engineering studies that will allow them to design weapons like ours.
9 posted on 05/31/2007 7:05:43 PM PDT by familyop
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That’s what I figured. (@%#$)


10 posted on 05/31/2007 7:14:15 PM PDT by rbosque (L)
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Read the article...it gets EVEN MORE outrageous...

“We have a serious problem,” Felton told me. “Anwar Al—— never showed up for class......”

Class my a$%!!There’s much more afoot here than engineering finals....


11 posted on 05/31/2007 7:32:54 PM PDT by mo
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Wow. And that’s just one we know about.


12 posted on 05/31/2007 8:25:23 PM PDT by gotribe ( I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution... - Grover Cleveland.)
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