Posted on 04/22/2013 9:27:56 AM PDT by IbJensen
(Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers Hani Hanhour (right) and Majed Moqed (left) at an ATM machine on Sept. 5, 2001.)
(CNSNews.com) - The number of Saudi Arabian students in the United States has increased by more than 500 percent since Sept. 11, 2001--when Hani Hanjour, a Saudi national who came here on a student visa flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon, killing 189 people.
According to the Institute of International Education--whose numbers on foreign students in the United States are used in official reports published by the U.S. Department of Education--there were 5,579 Saudi nationals enrolled in U.S. institutions of higher education in the 2001-2002 school year. The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks took place near the beginning of that school year.
In the 2011-2012 school year, the most recent year for which data are available, there were 34,139 Saudi nationals enrolled in institutions of higher education in the United States.
The 34,139 Saudi Arabian students in the United States for the 2011-2012 school year was more than the total of 30,256 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the University of Connecticut this school year.
From the 2001-2002 school year to the 2011-2012 school year, the number of Saudi nationals enrolled in U.S. institutions of higher education increased by 28,560.
That is an increase of more than 500 percent.
Hani Hanjour, the Saudi national who flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, came to the United States on a student visa, according to the 9/11 Commission Report.
“Hani Hanjour, from Ta’if, Saudi Arabia, first came to the United States in 1991 to study at the Center for English as a Second Language at the University of Arizona,” said the 9/11 Commission Report. “He seems to have been a rigorously observant Muslim. According to his older brother, Hani Hanjour went to Afghanistan for the first time in the late 1980s, as a teenager, to participate in the jihad and, because the Soviets had already withdrawn, worked for a relief agency there.
“In 1996,” according to the report, “Hanjour returned to the United States to pursue flight training, after being rejected by a Saudi flight school. He checked out flight schools in Florida, California, and Arizona; and he briefly started at a couple of them before returning to Saudi Arabia. In 1997, he returned to Florida and then, along with two friends, went back to Arizona and began his flight training there in earnest. After about three months, Hanjour was able to obtain his private pilot’s license. Several more months of training yielded him a commercial pilot certificate, issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in April 1999.”
He then went to Afghanistan and trained in an al Qaeda camp.
“On June 20, (2000), Hanjour returned home to Saudi Arabia,” said the report. “He obtained a U.S. student visa on September 2 and told his family he was returning to his job in the UAE. Hanjour did go to the UAE, but to meet facilitator Ali Abdul Aziz Ali.
“On December 8, Hanjour traveled to San Diego,” said the report. “His supposed destination was an English as a second language program in Oakland, California, which he had scheduled before leaving Saudi Arabia but never attended.”
Apart from the terrorist angle, which is the most important angle, we have many of the best universities in the world and they are being run largely for the benefit of rich foreign students, because not many Americans can afford the tuitions nowadays... Deliberately catering to foreign/terrorist students, while blocking bright American kids and sticking the taxpayer for the bill. Same thing is going on in medical care, particularly those getting the best care: rich foreigners whisking past taxpaying suckers who'll soon be standing in line for their moment with the death panel. Something's rotten in Denmark.
We always invite people into our home that hate us.
Good times, good company!
Their presence is justified by their paying more for tuition, thereby “helping” to fund already overfunded leftist indoctrination centers. This is what our leftist scum ‘betters’ tell us...
Effing Saudis... Plenty of other, non-muslim countries have untold numbers of talented young people to bring in here. I guess this is payback for all that access to their oil.
stay out the Saudis!
“From the 2001-2002 school year to the 2011-2012 school year, the number of Saudi nationals enrolled in U.S. institutions of higher education increased by 28,560.
That is an increase of more than 500 percent. “
Jorge Bush “Religion of Peace” ping : )
Yes, we should not have intervened when Saddam went after Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. They could have killed each other off, and we would buy oil from the tyrant left standing. Thinking that Saddam would have ruled the entire region is absurd. The Muslims hate each other even more than they hate us.
Our utterly ignorant politicians have made a voodoo doll out of this nation. Our enemies, which include all of the Arab world and most of the rest, enjoy shoving pins into the doll and actually being able to live out their fantasies by maiming and killing us. They burn our flag and our embassies, butcher our ambassadors, and demonstrate regularly against America.
We punish these animals by shoveling billions into their corrupt regimes.
But who am I to criticize? Our regime is the most corrupt in America’s history.
Why bring any into this country?
America is sick and the current regime keeps bleeding the corpse. We’d better cure the patient before we take in any more unknowns. Contrary to the idiot progressives, diversity is not our strength, rather it is our weakness.
I agree. Every time we vote we are forced to choose between poison and poison lite.
This all goes back to the idiot Bush and his attempt to redefine Islam.
Think about it though. Out of all the colleges and universities in America only a very few are actually worth the powder and lead to blow them into hell.
They tenure politically correct world government socialists who mold these skulls full of mush into worthless citizens. The main reason these foreigners (mostly Muslims) come over here is to check out the great satan for weak points. Additionally, there aren’t even a few decent institutions of higher learning in any Muslim nation.
These cats get fat from the oil money and use this largesse to send their progeny to either Britain or the United States.
Arab nations are, with the exception of training and exporting dangerous terrorists, without any technical accomplishments ever.
The only thing I can think of now that they’ve invented that’s used worldwide is the condom.
In 1610 a clever arab began to use the small intestine of a goat as a contraceptive.
Later, however, a Brit improved on this by removing the intestine from the animal.
We can’t give Bush all the credit.
True. He began the White Hut entertainment for the evil worshippers of the satan Mohammed.
He also sucked up big time to the Mexican government.
And his most important contribution to America’s mediocrity: spending money like crazy thereby paving the way for the current Muslim socialist that sits like a pompous ass in the oval orifice.
Compassionate conservative in Georgie’s lexicon means left of the center line.
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