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Posted on 10/14/2008 2:34:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Five Afghanistan scholars visiting the University of Washington to work on their master's theses were reported missing after failing to show up for a week of training sessions, university officials said today.
The five were among 38 mid-career government and nonprofit officials in Seattle for a three-month research and training program. They are working toward a master's degree in public policy and administration at Kabul University.
The program is in its second year through the Evans School of Public Affairs. It's also the second time Afghani scholars have gone missing.
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The five men, who are all 30 or younger, attended the first week of training workshops after arriving in late September but failed to show up for the second week of the program and have been missing since Oct. 6, Arkans said.
"They're not violating any laws; they're violating a condition of their visa," Arkans said. The scholars are in the United States on a J-1 visa, which allows extended stays for education or cultural exchange, according to the U.S. State Department.
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Two other scholars who participated in the program in 2007 did not return to Kabul, he said.
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(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Just doing the suicide bombs Americans won’t do...
I feel almost like I am living in that “past” world in 12 Monkeys.
However, they have all voted absentee in Washington.....
“They’re not violating any laws; they’re violating a condition of their visa,”
Isnt that violating the law?
Indeed it is..
they will be, my friend. they will be.
Why would a newspaper have a story of missing people and not post their photos?
Whereever they are, when not where they are supposed to be, is a national security risk??
They’ll blow up, oops I mean show up, before long......
They are working at the local ACORN office.
> “They’re not violating any laws; they’re violating a
> condition of their visa,”
>
> Isnt that violating the law?
Whereas a visa is a legal construct, therefore to be in violation thereof is to be in violation of the law that constructed it.
Logic doesn’t make sense to liberals.
The same thing happened at the University of Montana either last year or in 2006. A group of young Muslim students came here for some type of seminar/training/education program and were no-shows at their classes, too. I don’t remember what the status of those missing students ended up being. I know some were found and returned home (to Saudi Arabia or Egypt IIRC).
Terrorists or asylum seekers? I tend to think terrorists as the Govt. would have sympathy for asylum seekers and they wouldn’t have to go into hiding to stay here.
Note to self: no ferry rides in Puget Sound until they are found
There is always that danger, but the odds are they are just looking for work, ordinary visa-jumpers and now illegal aliens. The suicide bomber:just plain out-for-himself ratio is tiny.
Err, that would be racial profiling and a violation of their rights. We can't have that, can we now?
< / sar >
Sigh...
Time to find ‘em, take their bombs away, and deport their sorry bu**s...
(Is anyone seeing a pattern here, or is it just me?)
Yes they would, as the government isn’t likely to see them as asylum seekers considering who they are/where they are from. If they were Cubans it would be a slam dunk.
They are just the usual visa jumpers.
we better call Kilgore Trout for counselling...
this isnt the flight school thing again?
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