Nine of eleven missing Egyptian students in custody

WXXA-TV Fox 23 ^ | Aug 12, 2006 | AP

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

Immigration officials have now picked up all but two of the eleven Egyptian exchange students who came to the U-S for a summer course in Montana but never showed up for classes.

U-S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tracked three of the students to Des Moines, Iowa, where they were arrested yesterday. Others were picked up earlier in New Jersey, Maryland, Chicago and Minnesota.

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

there we have it, 2 out of 1.6 billion are good guys...;)

[daybreakcoming]

Guides for foreign students to study in US

Approx 600,000 on student visas were here in '01 with no foolproof method of tracking them.

Top Host Destinations (estimated total 2.5 million students)

United States 23%
United Kingdom 12%
Germany 11%
France 10%
Australia 7%
Japan 5%
China 5%

[r9etb]

We put out the media notice on the 11 for a reason. They won't tell us stuff for a reason. Let them do their job. It's called the "Secrets of War". We are NOT entitled to the "Secrets of War"...at this time.

We might also assume a bit of cleverness on the part of the authorities....

Mounting a well-publicized nationwide search for 11 missing foreign Islamic young men screams "terrorism suspects." Denying that they're terrorism suspects -- in the face of the aforementioned facts -- pretty much guarantees that people will think of it precisely in terms of them being terrorists, and thus makes them more visible.

So I think we can consider this as being a sly wink meant to achieve other ends, about which they're not telling us.

Couple this with the highly coincidental stories of the arrests of Islamic men and their many pre-paid phones -- which wouldn't normally be announced -- and one begins to think there's something else underlying these stories.

I'm thinking that there's a conscious attempt to stir things up, in order to make the bad guys feel like they've move or make sudden changes. That leads to more leads and better intel.

[Liberty Valance]

+

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

good non lethal weapon peeps: those million candle power (or whatever they are) chargeable spot lights sold in all wal-marts...;)

[AmericaUnite]

Their parents paid a lot of money to get them into the US.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682311/posts?page=45#45
"Search for missing Egyptian students continues"
" Illegal emigration is very common in Egypt, where rising unemployment and inflation prompt young men to seek jobs in the West. Many Egyptians are returned home on weekly flights from Malta, Cyprus, or Greece after failing to sneak through borders to Europe.

Mansoura University required each student in the group heading to Montana to sign a piece of paper promising to return home on schedule and "represent Egypt in a good manner" while in the United States. The university has said it will expel the students who disappeared.

According to the families, each student paid around 25,000 L.E., equivalent to $4,500 dollars, to participate in the program. "

[thoughtomator]

I would much rather that red text read "Confirmed Kill"

[WhiteGuy]

Here's an idea to start.....ban all entries to the USA of men 18-40 yrs old of Middle East or Muslim origin. Deport any non-USA citizen in this age range of Muslim faith. Sorry...but drastic times calls for drastic measures....
think of it as "treatment preventing termites".


I like it, however if those cultures are to change from within, we have the responsibility to give these countries an incentive.

Send all non-citizen muslims home. Don't allow any more in period.

[ApplegateRanch]

What I found odd was that 17 Egyptians were coming to Bozeman for an approximately 30 day course in American & Montanan Culture and History of Montana.

Not exactly the most exciting course of study, even for those in neighboring states.

[AmericaUnite]

female university professor at a small, third tier U-WI school. She constantly complains that the Arab students will not listen to her, ignore her, demean anything she says and are generally insubordinate and arrogant

Why can't the MSM cover this behavior. It's just sickening and dangerous for Arab Oil money to be able to buy its way around what should be a job, school. Hope she fails those who don't meet the grade.

[Irish Eyes]

We put out the media notice on the 11 for a reason. They won't tell us stuff for a reason. Let them do their job. It's called the "Secrets of War".

We are NOT entitled to the "Secrets of War"...at this time.

I agree ... I hope that this means that the NYT is closing it's door.

[NautiNurse]

The FBI said it about 9/11 in the 30 minutes before the second tower was hit!

The WTC South Tower was hit 9:03AM, just seventeen minutes after the North Tower was struck at 8:46AM. Initial reports are virtually never accurate, nor should we expect them to be.

[Choose Ye This Day]

The "mother mosque"???

The Islamic Center on 1st Avenue? I used to go sledding down the hill behind that building every winter.

[defenderSD]

"It's the eleventh guy I worry about."

I worry about him too. Did you see the pictures of those guys? They're a mean-looking group. They look like their shoes are two sizes too small.

[ladyjane]

It's the eleventh guy I worry about

Me too.

[brothers4thID]

Let me guess- no apparent terroristic motives for these fellows. They just got "lost".

[goldfinch]

What makes me curious is the mundane-type information that is missing from reports on these Egyptian 'students'. Maybe unimportant things, but still things you routinely read in news reports about other things. Like...How/why were these 'students' picked? Did they belong to the same group BEFORE they were picked? Or did they come from different universities? Why did 7 of them go to Montana as scheduled? Why didn't the rest?

And then there are the questions about the university program. Is this the first program of this type at the Montana university? If not, have the previous 'students' arrived and departed on time?

If this is all so innocent, why aren't those kind of mundane facts included in the newspaper articles?

[Zarro]

If this is all so innocent, why aren't those kind of mundane facts included in the newspaper articles?

Exactly. I'm a bit disturbed at the total lack of any meaningful information in these "news" stories. Almost every one I've read has been a carbon copy of the first to come out: they were supposed to show up at school; they didn't; school notified authorities; now we're on the lookout....

How about: what they've been doing? who have they been in contact with? where they've been? their backgrounds prior to breaking the laws of our country? how fast can we get them out? How sure are we they'll never be allowed back?

[olrtex]

What is your alternative to fighting this War on all fronts?
What is your alternative to democracy (or republicanism, whichever you prefer to call it)?

[Lumper20]

Exactly. They sure did not make it to Montana. Funny how we seem to allow these so called students into the US. I say they were up to no good.