Professor recalls now notorious A&T student

Greensboro Fishwrap ^

[AppyPappy]

Professor recalls now notorious A&T student

3-4-03

By JOHN NEWSOM, Staff Writer News & Record

The last time N.C. A&T got so many calls from the national media, the university was unveiling a statue of the Greensboro Four, four students who refused to leave a whites-only lunch counter and launched the sit-in movement.

But none of the reporters contacting A&T lately have wanted to discuss this civil rights milestone or A&T's most famous graduate, Jesse Jackson.

Instead, they want to know about A&T graduate Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a suspected terrorist with a $25 million bounty on his head who was arrested Saturday a world away from the leafy Greensboro campus.

A few other media sources have inquired about a second man, also an engineering graduate, Mazen Al-Najjar. Federal authorities have tried to link Al-Najjar to a Palestinian group responsible for suicide bombings against Israel.

Both Mohammed and Al-Najjar got engineering degrees in the 1980s, when the historically black A&T apparently had attracted some Middle Eastern students. But the two men's time at A&T did not overlap, and it is not known if the two knew each other.

Federal authorities say Mohammed was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They also say he was involved in several significant al-Qaida operations -- the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, the recent bombings of a synagogue in Tunisia and a nightclub in Bali.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

for later

[Carolinamom]

Thanks for posting this, AppyPappy. I've been wanting the details about their attendance at A&T.

[AppyPappy]

We used to get in fights with these guys. One of my frat bros was a Lebanese Christian from Beirut. There was no love lost among these people. He had scars on his tongue where the Muslims would nab them on the streets of Beirut and use a razor blade on Christian kids tongues. Of course, they did the same to Muslim kids

Mostly they just played soccer and picked up gay men. One of the guys close to the frat was very gay and swore they were easy.

[Carolinamom]

"these guys" = Iraqis or specifically these 2?

Did you go to A&T or to a near-by college?

[AppyPappy]

UNCG. The fights were with them in general. We didn't know their names. But the ME guys at A&T were very well-known in the gay community.

We also had problems with the Indians students because we had a brother from Sri Lanka. Go figure.

[Carolinamom]

I also graduated from UNCG (won't tell you the year!). What's with all their interest in the gay community? Are they all homos or just reluctant to associate with women (same thing? LOL)?

[AppyPappy]

I think they were attracted to the easy nature. One of the gay guys told me that the ME types didn't see it as adultery because they weren't with a woman.

[Libloather]

...A&T's most famous graduate, Jesse Jackson.

Not anymore...

[Liz]

Da Rev Jessuh's notorious albeit for far different reasons.