Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Where Are the Missing Egyptian "Students"

Now this gave me a shudder when I first heard it.

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 "At this point all they have done is not show up for a scheduled academic program and their student visas have been revoked."

Yeah, I know that the likelihood of them being terrorists is low, but, they do come from Egypt which has a fairly high level of Jihadi origination. Don't forget that al-Zawahiri is the leader of the EIJ and the second in command of al-Qaeda. Historically, lots of the Afghan Jihad came from Egypt and many remained associated with al-Qaeda.

This prompts the question of why the hell hasn't the student Visa system been repaired, yet.


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