Thursday, August 10, 2006
RECORD NOW OVER .500
6 of the 11 Egyptians students "wandering" about in the US have now been caught. bully for the feds! Hopefully the other five won't show up on a flight with an explosive cocktail in hand.
from the Chicago tribune:
About 7:30 a.m. Thursday, El Ela approached one of the Delta gate desks in O'Hare's Terminal 3 and attempted to book himself on a flight to Bozeman, Mont., Bolger said, but his ticket was for a flight from New York to Bozeman on a different day.
He wanted to exchange the ticket and "was acting in a strange, erratic behavior," Bolger said.
El Ela raised his voice with airline agents and told the woman to call the university to confirm he was a student there. The woman did, but a university representative told her to contact authorities immediately, Bolger said. At that point, the woman called the officer, and he soon arrived at the gate.
By that time, El Ela was "calm and cooperative," Bolger said. "He was kind of confused, and he talked in broken English."
Bolger asked him questions, but he said El Ela would not tell him where he had been recently. Police later learned that he had apparently taken a bus from New York to Chicago, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said
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the other two were picked up in Maryland. via the Houston Chronicle(www.chron.com)
Two other 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, the FBI said.
okay this is from today's Houston Chronicle about the missing minnesotan muslim:
Relatives in Egypt explained the students' failure to show up at Montana State by saying they probably wanted to find work in the United States.
"It must have been in his mind to stay where there are plenty of job opportunities," said Ibrahim el-Dessouki, the father of a student arrested Wednesday in Minnesota. "You know how much a dollar is worth here in Egypt."
He said he spoke to his son when he arrived in the United States but has not since.
I bet the dims are torn over this one? I thought the economy was in shambles? Evidently not so much as to keep illegal immigrants from Egypt risking everything to come get work in a land with "plenty of job opportunities".
however, this was in the chronicle yesterday.
Hamvi Kassab, a Minneapolis grocer who said he is El-Dessouki's uncle, told television station KSTP that his nephew was in town to visit relatives and to inquire about attending the University of Minnesota.
***let's see. pappa el-Dessouki said his son perhaps was looking for work and had not talked to him since he arrived in the US. Uncle el-Dessouki evidently is not on speaking terms with il Papa. Oh, and he says the youngster was in town seeking to become a Golden Gopher. Which is it?
from the Chicago tribune:
About 7:30 a.m. Thursday, El Ela approached one of the Delta gate desks in O'Hare's Terminal 3 and attempted to book himself on a flight to Bozeman, Mont., Bolger said, but his ticket was for a flight from New York to Bozeman on a different day.
He wanted to exchange the ticket and "was acting in a strange, erratic behavior," Bolger said.
El Ela raised his voice with airline agents and told the woman to call the university to confirm he was a student there. The woman did, but a university representative told her to contact authorities immediately, Bolger said. At that point, the woman called the officer, and he soon arrived at the gate.
By that time, El Ela was "calm and cooperative," Bolger said. "He was kind of confused, and he talked in broken English."
Bolger asked him questions, but he said El Ela would not tell him where he had been recently. Police later learned that he had apparently taken a bus from New York to Chicago, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said
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the other two were picked up in Maryland. via the Houston Chronicle(www.chron.com)
Two other 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, the FBI said.
okay this is from today's Houston Chronicle about the missing minnesotan muslim:
Relatives in Egypt explained the students' failure to show up at Montana State by saying they probably wanted to find work in the United States.
"It must have been in his mind to stay where there are plenty of job opportunities," said Ibrahim el-Dessouki, the father of a student arrested Wednesday in Minnesota. "You know how much a dollar is worth here in Egypt."
He said he spoke to his son when he arrived in the United States but has not since.
I bet the dims are torn over this one? I thought the economy was in shambles? Evidently not so much as to keep illegal immigrants from Egypt risking everything to come get work in a land with "plenty of job opportunities".
however, this was in the chronicle yesterday.
Hamvi Kassab, a Minneapolis grocer who said he is El-Dessouki's uncle, told television station KSTP that his nephew was in town to visit relatives and to inquire about attending the University of Minnesota.
***let's see. pappa el-Dessouki said his son perhaps was looking for work and had not talked to him since he arrived in the US. Uncle el-Dessouki evidently is not on speaking terms with il Papa. Oh, and he says the youngster was in town seeking to become a Golden Gopher. Which is it?
