With the massive numbers of immigrants in the country today I don't suppose it would be too difficult to fake IDs, and Armenia being a tiny Christian country surrounded by muslim ones, an Armenian ID would make the most sense for someone who appeared to be middle eastern.
On the other hand, maybe Armenia is mad at us, I dunno.
On post #44 they claimed they were looking for Glendale. I would venture that Glendale is about 80 miles north of Pendelton but Glendale does have a rather large Armenian population in the eastern part of the town. It bothers me that they got past the guards. That should have not happened. Those Marines who were standing guard most likely had quite a lot of explaining to do. This whole situation does not pass the smell test.
That is what I thought too. Great idea for Muslim middle easterners to pose as Christian Armenians.
No one could ever think San Diego county, far down the interstate past LA, was Glendale, a section of LA near the heart of the city. No way. Even if you were Fresh Off Boat, your directions to travel northeast from the airport would not get you 100 miles south of LA.
RE: “Petrossian and avanosian sound like Armenian names. Armenians are Christians.”
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“With the massive numbers of immigrants in the country today I don’t suppose it would be too difficult to fake IDs, and Armenia being a tiny Christian country surrounded by muslim ones, an Armenian ID would make the most sense for someone who appeared to be middle eastern.”
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It doesn’t matter what their names supposedly are, their behaviors were extremely suspicious. I don’t like their looks. Period. One can buy ID in parts of L.A. for 20 bucks — not a big deal. Lost on the way to Glendale? LOL —
And yes, Glendale and even Burbank/Hollywood/North Hollywood are more and more overrun with ‘Armenians.’ They are like Muslims in that some are great people and others are total criminals.
The teens have their own gangs get into fights at the high schools and there are groups of somewhat older Armenian males congregating elsewhere, frightening other residents. They fight among themselves, too — like old Mafia families.
They really know how to ‘work’ our entitlement systems and along with Russians, are some of the most notorious at collecting welfare/food stamps/undeserved social security, etc. I see them in local markets every week with their gold jewelry and fancy cars, using food coupons for basics and paying cash for everything else they want that’s not eligible for food coupons.
This sounds like a BAD situation to me and I sure hope these bozos are under constant watch not; they should have been held for extremely tough questioning, actually.