Stop Me If You Have Heard This One ...
(Hat-Tip: Captain Ed Morrissey)
From The New York Post:
Eleven Egyptian students who were supposed to travel to a Montana university after flying to JFK airport late last month disappeared in New York, spurring federal authorities to issue a nationwide alert, officials said yesterday.
The students - who were traveling with six classmates from Mansoura University in Egypt - had their student visas revoked for failing to show up at Montana State University in Bozeman, the officials said.
The other six students made it to the college.
"The FBI and ICE [Immigration and Custom Enforcement] would like to locate these 11 students in order to speak with them," said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko after the "be-on-the-lookout" alert was issued to all police in the United States.
Kolko said there is no reason to believe the missing students, all men around 20 years old, represent a threat.
"At this point, all they have done is not show up for a scheduled academic program, and their visas have been revoked," Kolko said.
This
Was
Our
Brain in a pre-9/11 world.
Now, post-9/11 we have incidents like this. Was Homeland Security not created to avoid such mishaps? Was it not on duty today? Where was ICE to stop these people? And does anyone feel any better with the FBI assuring us that these people "present no threat?" I am afraid that I must concur with Captain Ed when it comes to being just a tad apprehensive about this. Egypt has it's fair share of extremists that would love nothing better than to martyr themselves in an attack against the United States.
Thank you very much Homeland Security, but I will feel much better when these men are found, and deported.
Marcie
(Hat-Tip: Captain Ed Morrissey)
From The New York Post:
Eleven Egyptian students who were supposed to travel to a Montana university after flying to JFK airport late last month disappeared in New York, spurring federal authorities to issue a nationwide alert, officials said yesterday.
The students - who were traveling with six classmates from Mansoura University in Egypt - had their student visas revoked for failing to show up at Montana State University in Bozeman, the officials said.
The other six students made it to the college.
"The FBI and ICE [Immigration and Custom Enforcement] would like to locate these 11 students in order to speak with them," said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko after the "be-on-the-lookout" alert was issued to all police in the United States.
Kolko said there is no reason to believe the missing students, all men around 20 years old, represent a threat.
"At this point, all they have done is not show up for a scheduled academic program, and their visas have been revoked," Kolko said.
This
Was
Our
Brain in a pre-9/11 world.
Now, post-9/11 we have incidents like this. Was Homeland Security not created to avoid such mishaps? Was it not on duty today? Where was ICE to stop these people? And does anyone feel any better with the FBI assuring us that these people "present no threat?" I am afraid that I must concur with Captain Ed when it comes to being just a tad apprehensive about this. Egypt has it's fair share of extremists that would love nothing better than to martyr themselves in an attack against the United States.
Thank you very much Homeland Security, but I will feel much better when these men are found, and deported.
Marcie
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