An image of Muhammed Radwan, an Egyptian-American who was detained in Syria on Friday, on Syrian television on Saturday.
Posted on 03/26/2011 5:00:44 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
CAIRO (AP) — Syrian authorities have detained two Americans amid an unprecedented wave of protests in the repressive Middle East nation, relatives and state media said Saturday.
Syria's state news agency Sana alleged that a man with dual U.S.-Egyptian citizenship had "confessed" to selling the footage to a Colombian woman. He was later identified by relatives as Mohammed Radwan, 32, of Austin Texas.
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Meanwhile, a Vermont man said his 21-year-old son Pathik "Tik" Root — who had been missing since March 18 — has been found to be safe in Syrian custody.
Tom Root said his son, a Middlebury College student who had been studying Arabic in Damascus as part of a program through Damascus University — was detained during a demonstration in the capital.
Root said in a message posted Saturday on Middlebury's website that he believes his son was watching, and not participating, in the demonstration.
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>He was later identified by relatives as Mohammed Radwan, 32, of Austin Texas.<
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How do we know Mr. Radwan is not a member of AQ? It is known that many American muslims are members of AQ or have gone abroad to train at AQ terrorist camps.
My brain threw a parity error at this point.
For some reason, when I went to Harvard back in the 50s, there used to be a habit of starting riots in Harvard Square on Saturday nights, after the football games. (Panty raids were also the thing, but that was another story.)
Anyway, to make a long story short, the Dean of Freshman called us all together and said, "If you happen to pass through Harvard Square while a riot is going on, don't blame the police for arresting you. Steer clear of riots!"
Good advice, I think. And even better advice when it comes to riots in a place like Syria. Watching a demonstration? Even if true, that was hardly a smart thing to do.
Excuse my ignorance... But I wasn't aware that the US recognized dual citizenship. My understanding is that one cannot be a US citizen and the citizen of another nation - If you are naturalize, you swear off any oath of allegiance to another nation. If you adopt citizenship of another nation - then you forfeit your US citizenship...yes? If not - then something is terribly amiss..
Time to roll out Bubba...
Mohammed Radwan, 32, of Austin Texas... Pathik "Tik" Root [of Vermont]
An image of Muhammed Radwan, an Egyptian-American who was detained in Syria on Friday, on Syrian television on Saturday.
Oh yeah, a real founding stock Texan right there. I think his great-great-great granddaddy Ahmed was Sam Houston's secretary at the Convention of 1833.
Meanwhile, a Vermont man ... Pathik "Tik" Root
Direct descendant of Ethan Allen, I'm sure.
Well you got that sentence correct.
The United States allows dual citizenship.
For example, if you were born in Mexico you are a native-born Mexican.
If you move to the United States and become a naturalized US citizen, you now have dual citizenship.
Dual citizens can carry two passports and essentially live, work, and travel freely within their native and naturalized countries.
Some dual citizens also enjoy the privilege of voting in both countries, owning property in both countries, and having government health care in both countries.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country.
Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Hey, let’s go down and watch an anti-government demonstration here in a totalitarian regime! Like, what could possibly happen? /rolling eyes
The 21-year-old was one of the students evacuated from Middlebury College’s study abroad program in Egypt in late January in the face of political unrest there. Shortly after his arrival in Vermont, Root told the Addison Independent that he was already trying to get back to the Middle East.“I’m looking to go back to Damascus, (Syria),” he said at that time.
At the same time, Root was sharing his photographs and video footage of protests in Egypt with as many outlets as he could, and began compiling information and reports from Egyptians still in the country, e-mailing updates out to a list that he’d compiled and starting a blog to catalog reports.
In the end, Tik Root did make it to Syria earlier this month, enrolling at the University of Damascus. But in recent days, that country has seen an unexpected escalation in anti-government protests. After a week of steady protests and seven casualties, Reuters reports that security forces on Wednesday opened fire on protesters in the south of the country, leaving at least 37 dead.
Tik Root has not been heard from since March 18, when he reportedly attended a protest.
The blog he started following his evacuation from Egypt — mideastreports.wordpress.com — have now been set to private, and two public Google Documents he’d maintained containing the stories of people witnessing the turmoil have been stripped of content.
The last time I heard that, I thought 640K was a lot of memory, and my 5MB hard disk cost $300...
My Dad went to Harvard in the 1930’s and he said rioting was the campus past time. He showed me some photos once of “Dictators Day” when all students would dress either as Hitler, Mussolini or Roosevelt. He said one of these events turned into a ferocious melee with hordes of students climbing onto the roofs of trolleys and disconnecting the power then pushing the trolley on its side to block the road. He said the police arrived and fired tear gas with “Dictators” retrieving the canisters and throwing them back at the cops.
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