Snipped from the CIA website, I hope that's legal.......
Nationality: noun: Maldivian(s) Ethnic groups: South Indians, Sinhalese, Arabs Religions: Sunni Muslim Languages: Maldivian Dhivehi (dialect of Sinhala, script derived from Arabic),
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, how did they rule out that these guys were not terrorists scoping out the area. Where was their regular pilot if they were students? From Maldives and they are ok??????
This letting people off the hook so easily is really getting to me. Why did they take off running when she said she was going to get a trooper? There's a lot of unanswered questions. Also the Maldives is a great place to learn how to scuba dive
Below is my response to Velveetas post about the 4 Maldivian ""student pilots"" that made an unusual flight to a Texas city southwest of Dallas. It just dawned on me that the Presidents ranch is about 70 miles down the road from that little town.
Nationality: noun: Maldivian(s) Ethnic groups: South Indians, Sinhalese, Arabs Religions: Sunni Muslim Languages: Maldivian Dhivehi (dialect of Sinhala, script derived from Arabic),
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, how did they rule out that these guys were not terrorists scoping out the area. Where was their regular pilot if they were students? From Maldives and they are ok??????
This letting people off the hook so easily is really getting to me. Why did they take off running when she said she was going to get a trooper? There's a lot of unanswered questions. Also the Maldives is a great place to learn how to scuba dive
Vels post.......
FBI releases pilots after questioning (Texas)
By ANNA BOUDREAU
Staff Writer
Four men who landed an airplane in Stephenville Friday prompted law enforcement officers to investigate their suspicious actions, but the FBI freed them in Fort Worth following separate interrogations.
“Four males flew into our airport and left the airport using a golf cart to go to Hard 8 Barbecue to have lunch,” said Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant. “After lunch they went over to the DPS office and went into the driver’s license office to acquire about getting Texas identification cards.”
Bryant said the lady working in the driver’s license office became suspicious of the men because each had numerous passports and identification cards — something she learned in her training should indicate there might be trouble.(snipped...click link for rest of the article)
http://www.empiretribune.com/EMPIRETRIBUNE/sites/EMPIRETRIBUNE/1172edition/myarticles941773.asp?P=941773&S=425&PubID=15411All great questions.
(I wish there were reasonable answers!)