[353FMG]

>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.

[Erasmus]

[...] has been found to be safe in Syrian custody.

My brain threw a parity error at this point.

[Cicero]

he believes his son was watching, and not participating, in the demonstration.

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.

[TheBattman]

Syria's state news agency Sana alleged that a man with dual U.S.-Egyptian citizenship

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..

[moovova]

Time to roll out Bubba...

[triumphant values]

He was later identified by relatives as Mohammed Radwan, 32, of Austin Texas.

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.

[skr]

Hey, let’s go down and watch an anti-government demonstration here in a totalitarian regime! Like, what could possibly happen? /rolling eyes

[Straight Vermonter]

The news stories have said over and over that the guy from VT was just observing protests but then there is this from his local paper:

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.