'NYT' Sunday Preview: Former Taliban Spokesman Finds New Haven--at Yale

Editor and Publisher ^ | February 24, 2006 | E&P Staff

[nuconvert]

No, that's the link to the brief piece you posted that was written about the original article.

[ANGGAPO]

Wonder if HLS has run a check on this dude?

[nuconvert]

Ahh, Thank you.

[george76]

All of the article that I have read is with the attached link.

Perhaps you can find more from the NYT.

[dagnabbit]

What idiot gave him a student visa?

[mtbopfuyn]

And the government employee who issued this guy's student visa is still being paid by our tax dollars. Was any of the information on the application even checked and how long after it expires/expired will he stay on American soil? Who's paying for his rent, food, medical, and tuition?

[Thombo2]

The point is that he's not only allowed back in this country,but he's attending Yale University.

[When do we get liberated?]

Probably a teacher's assistant.

[Candor7]

"If this is accurate about his past, why has the Bush administration not arrested him."


He either turned state's evidence or has powerful friends in the right places. I hope he goes into another "active phase" and is caught by homeland security. Be nice to see this sphincter yelling that we flushed his Koran down the toilet, from behind bars.

[BW2221]

I doubt Editor & Publisher made it up.

[nuconvert]

There is a very long article at the link given by Dog Gone in #20

[tsmith130]

Because his official education ended in the fourth grade, the marks eased some of his anxiety about passing muster at Yale.

Must of had some awesome SAT scores. WTF?

[Just A Nobody]

As he stood in the back hunting for a place to sit, he realized that he had been in Luce Hall before. Four years earlier. March 2001.
{snip}
The university saved a seat for him that afternoon, down on the stage. He was the featured speaker, a "roving ambassador" from the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan.
{snip}
Twenty-two years old and a member of the Taliban — at that moment, in fact, the very face and voice of the regime in America. Per decree, his beard was full, his head swaddled in a turban. He was dressed in an Afghan tunic and loose-fitting pants. Neither he nor anyone else in Luce Hall that day could have foreseen the catastrophe ...

[reagan_fanatic]

His road to America was paved largely by Mike Hoover, an American TV cameraman who had met Hashemi in Afghanistan. “I thought he could do a lot as a student/teacher,” Hoover said.

Naivete shows no bounds.

[bayourant]

I highly expect the "roving ambassador" must have been working or turned quickly to the CIA to save his butt and must have given alot of intelligence.

[Thombo2]

Thanx for the link.

[george76]

He likely cut some deal.

After WW II, we let in many a Nazi because of their knowledge and connections.

It still sucks when it happens. There are many other places he should be...other than at Yale.

[george76]

Anything in the long article that helps ?

[george76]

Thank you for finding the NYT's link.

[ConsentofGoverned]

"yeah. pity about the luck of all those people in the Twin Towers that day, eh Hash?"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>......
If only Yale could have gotten Himmler after WWII to explain Germany to the Ivy League elite..what a missed opportunity. sarc