We’re Up to SIX

…of the missing eleven Eyptian students.

…El Sayed Ahmed Elsayed Ibrahim, 20, and Alaa Abd El Fattah Ali El Bahnasawi, 20, were arrested at a residence in Dundalk, Md., outside Baltimore, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Chicago police detained Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Abou El Ela, 22, at OHare International Airport as he was attempting to book a flight to Montana, the FBI said. Immigration agents later took El Ela into custody.

With everything that’s gone down today, it’s worth revisiting our Homeland Security Chief’s initial reaction to these guys going missing.

…Sensitivity toward Muslims is so raw that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff this week felt compelled to express disappointment that the FBI put out an alert for 11 Egyptian students who failed to show up at Montana State University. They entered the country on visas, then vanished. Chertoff said not to worry, just a bunch of kids cutting class. No threat here.

I’ll bet he wish he could eat those words.

categories Humanity...or the Lack Thereof | | datetime August 10, 2006 6:10 pm

4 Responses to “We’re Up to SIX”

  1. John says:
    August 10, 2006 at 7:35 pm

    What the bloody hell is MSU doing admitting Egyptian students anyway? That’s BFE land right there. Anyone from the Middle East who wants to study here ought to be confined to several very well monitored campuses. Not Yale, though.

  2. Gunslinger says:
    August 10, 2006 at 7:49 pm

    Chertoff deserves to eat a grenade. Homeland Security secretary my ass.

  3. Nightfly says:
    August 10, 2006 at 9:23 pm

    C’mon, John… Montana is perfect! I mean, it’s not like they can simply melt across the northern border undetected and then sneak back – right? This isn’t Mexico, y’know!

  4. Mr. Bingley says:
    August 11, 2006 at 6:45 am

    In other news, Alfred E. Neuman was named the new Chief of Homeland Security…

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