11 Egyptian students missing in U.S...Run & Hide in Terror!

[Philosoraptor]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2288397&page=1

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 2006 — The FBI and U.S. Immigration and Custom's Enforcement alerted intelligence agencies and state and local law enforcement this week about 11 Egyptian students who failed to report to their classes at Montana State University after they entered the country last month.

The 11 students entered the United States through New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on July 29, 2006, but have failed to arrive at MSU, where they were scheduled to take English and other academic courses as part of an exchange program with Mansoura University, which is located in Alexandria, Egypt.

"The FBI and ICE would like to locate these 11 students in order to speak with them," FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said in a statement released Monday. "At this point all they have done is not show up for a scheduled academic program and their student visas have been revoked."

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This week's scary terror story to keep it in the back of our heads that they hate us for our freedoms and want to hurt us. Are we at war with Egypt yet?

[underpants]

1. Iraq=tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia = political pivot. Egypt = the prize

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020902/vest

The Men From JINSA and CSP

For example, the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board--chaired by JINSA/CSP adviser and former Reagan Administration Defense Department official Richard Perle, and stacked with advisers from both groups--recently made news by listening to a briefing that cast Saudi Arabia as an enemy to be brought to heel through a number of potential mechanisms, many of which mirror JINSA's recommendations, and which reflect the JINSA/CSP crowd's preoccupation with Egypt. (The final slide of the Defense Policy Board presentation proposed that "Grand Strategy for the Middle East" should concentrate on "Iraq as the tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia as the strategic pivot Egypt as the prize.") Ledeen has been leading the charge for regime change in Iran, while old comrades like Andrew Marshall and Harold Rhode in the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment actively tinker with ways to re-engineer both the Iranian and Saudi governments. JINSA is also cheering the US military on as it tries to secure basing rights in the strategic Red Sea country of Eritrea, happily failing to mention that the once-promising secular regime of President Isaiais Afewerki continues to slide into the kind of repressive authoritarianism practiced by the "axis of evil" and its adjuncts.

[MrCoffee]

2. The FBI wants to "speak with them"?

Shit, I'd run and hide too.

[Nimrod2005]

3. Check with the CIA - They have already been rendered?

That would be where I'd start looking...

[bigendian]

4. Don't be afraid but do be prepared.

This is a perfect time to hit us again.

We are aligned with Israel against the Arabs. With Bush in office we are virtually leaderless.
The world pretty much despises us. No one trusts us.

The only bright spot is that bush probably does not want an attack after saying we would be safer.

[treestar]

5. ICE priority on enforcement

naturally went to Arab males after 911, but for some reason, they go after Egyptians with the biggest stick. Maybe because the ringleader came from there, or Saudis don't come as often and overstay. They set up a system to track students much better, too. Now a student doesn't show up for class and ICE will be after them, since now the university has the responsibility of reporting that.

Even Egyptians who married US citizens were put into deportation proceedings and initially detained - they can still make the application in the proceedings, but usually that was enforcement not bothered with, since the person had a way to become legal (still not bothered with for anybody from other countries who marries a US citizen)

So an Egyptian student that doesn't show up for class is toast. If they turn up later applying for a green card because they are married to a US citizen, they are going to get the full runaround, I predict.

[soothsayer]

6. the freeps (completely terra-ized by 9-11) are losing their minds

over this story and of someone trying to buy 100 prepaid cellphones in WV. They are in full panic mode! lol

[MrCoffee]

8. No, not cellphones!?!

Oh.My.God. Must check duct tape supply ASAP.

[underpants]

10. Yeah I heard it on the radio on the way in to work

the Glenn Beck show. He said that the FBI has refused to release their photographs but I can't find any mention of that anywhere-no surprise really I think the fact that the FBI hasn't released any photos (lets assume they have some) is being extrapolated out.

Then he had a caller (I am not kidding either) who wondered about the King Tut exhibition that is touring the states and how these guys could have gone into the background there and are going to be able to move around without anyone noticing while under the cover of the exhibition. She claimed that the FBI person she talked to asked her if she was a clairvoyant ...or Clair Voyant.

[MidwestTransplant]

11. You can't make that stuff up

[MrCoffee]

13. Then what the hell is DHS up to?

They make shit like that up all the time. And as soon as I read about the King Tut exhibit, the perfect Faux News graphic sprang up in my mind..."Artifacts of Terror" dum dum dum!

[treestar]

17. Makes no sense

Shouldn't the FBI release their photos so we can look for them?

:rofl:

[MidwestTransplant]

7. Only 11? That's better than a Brazilian missing.

[Philosoraptor]

9. I think they're sitting right behind me here at Starbuck's...

I've called the dept. of homeland paranoia.`

[Stargazer99]

12. 11 missing Egyptians and we're not supposed to be afraid?

Why not? Maybe it is time to do a better job of who is allowed in the US besides the administration harrassing the left leaning.

[High Plains]

15. Okay, be afraid. I've got better things to do.

[MrCoffee]

16. Why do you hate amerika?

Do you want the terrorists to win?

[tabasco]

14. CHECK YOUR BASEMENTS !!

BE ON THE ALERT FOR THESE AND OTHER SUSPICIOUS BROWN PEOPLE !!

OOOGA BOOOGA BOOOGA BOO!!!!

[MichaelHarris]

18. any of them female, blonde, blue-eyed?

Come people this is an easy one. 11 middle-eastern men missing in Montana? You betcha.

[MrCoffee]

19. Were they wearing haltertops and miniskirts when they went missing?

They were probably asking for it.

[MichaelHarris]

20. and

If they were in mini-skirts was Bill Oreilly around?