Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Mohamed Saleh Ahmed Maray, 20, and Mohamed Ibrahim Fouaad El Shenawy, 17, at an apartment building in Richmond on Sunday night. Virginia State Police and the Richmond Police helped locate the students.
Last Wednesday, one of the Egyptian students was arrested in Minneapolis and two were detained in Manville, N.J. On Thursday, two were arrested in Dundalk, Md., and one was arrested at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Three more were arrested Friday in Des Moines, Iowa.
I'm not really sure what these guys were thinking, because Bozeman is a beautiful place. Here's a picture of the Montana State University campus:
Now, I'm sure Richmond is a nice town. Southern capitals are supposed to be beautiful. But Des Moines? Three Egyptian guys went to Des Moines? Here's a picture of Des Moines:
(photo credit: http://www.hellodesmoines.com/Images/Photos/972005Des_Moines_skyline-sm.jpg)
I'm asking you to decide for yourselves. Look at the pictures. Then read the concluding sentence from this and every other article about the Eleven Egyptians:
None of the students is considered a terrorism risk.
What were they doing in New Jersey and Des Moines and Minneapolis and Maryland and Richmond when they were supposed to be in Big Sky Country? What was the hit-the-ground-and-scatter tactic all about?
What I haven't seen in these reports is the "D" word. Not a peep about whether or not the Eleven are being deported.
4 comments:
Charlie,
It wasn't four years. It was a month!
And yes, they have a Main Street and even those fancy street lights. The ones with red, yellow and green colors.
You must be thinking of Twodot (as in, not one but two dots).
I'd take Western Montana over New Jersey any day.
The logical thing to do would be to make an example of them and deport them immediately.
That's why I believe our government will probably lose track of them again real soon.
I would have liked to comment, but I would have taken up too much space. If you want to see an eastern European's view on that, here:http://moderndaycrusaders.blogspot.com/ (and no, it's not a damn adbot writing here).
Skye:
Regardless of where they were supposed to be, if they changed their minds about where to go to school, they should have reported it. DID they enroll in any colleges at all?
IMHO, the reason they were being looked for was the State Department knew a terrorist plot was being broken up in UK. To be sure all lose ends were accounted for, they began to look for these 11.
And, yes, Mallot, you have a point. It is my hope, against hope, that these WILL be deported.
An interesting observation: The U.S. is a horrible place for it's foreign policy, according to some who live overseas. Yet, where do they want to go to school the most? U.S. colleges and universities! Go figure! Hmmmm...maybe we should refuse to allow students from foreign countries that don't like the U.S. Besides, I've been informed that many get to go to school here free.
SIGH. We should take care of our own first, eh?
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