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Great. It'd be a bit innovative and clever if they took advantage of the exchange student system to import jihadis.
LITTLETON – An exchange student at Columbine High School is missing after he did not return from his trip to Washington, D.C. over the weekend.
Jefferson County Schools spokesperson Lynn Setzer says the student is 17-year-old Mesbah Habibi from Afghanistan.
He was supposed to come back to Colorado to finish the school year, but instead, even though he checked in at the airport, he never got on the plane.
Habibi is a junior at Columbine and has been living with a host family since August. Setzer says Habibi did call his host family and told them he is OK, but he did not reveal where he was.
"Whenever we have a student who, for whatever reason, does not return home from a trip, we're obviously very concerned, but it is good to know that he's been in contact and that he's not been a victim of foul play. I think definitely there is concern until we know exactly where he is," said Setzer.
Setzer says the State Department told the school district five other students from Habibi's program, also from Afghanistan, went missing in the last week. She says the State Department is investigating.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says it doesn't believe there is any foul play involved.
"He was a wonderful student, participated in a lot of activities and they (his host family) are certainly mystified by this disappearance, but very happy of course that he's safe and I think that's the main thing people wanted to know that he is safe somewhere, we just don't know where," said Setzer.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=90966
Likely nothing, but...???
RGR.Montcalm
2 May 2008, 13:50
Is there a 7-11 or other convenience store for sale in the area?? :rolleyes::D
Not likely to be "jihad" but certainly just another example of the lunacy of inviting everyone from the planet to see the joys of our country.
And we REALLY expect after they have experienced running water, clean and well-stocked stores, and women that don't NEED a robe covering the entire body -- to just up and go home at the end of their visit.
Fuck, I hate society....
if you look at it that way, I guess the hope is that they'll go back disillusioned, and try to affect change. I suppose it's better, for them, than not knowing.
if you look at it that way, I guess the hope is that they'll go back disillusioned, and try to affect change. I suppose it's better, for them, than not knowing.No. That is not how it works. I won't even bother trying to explain why not....
OK, this drives me nuts. Why in Gods name are we accepting exchange students from places like Asscrackistan. Arent we doling out millions of tax $$ building them schools in their homeland??? So now we are spending our $$ building them schools at home and spending $$ on them to not use those facilities.
As far as I am concerned, if the report has some semblence of factuality, I find it odd that 5 other kids from this guys program went AWOL the same week. Color me strange, but coincidences like that make my alarms go off.
As far as I am concerned, if the report has some semblence of factuality, I find it odd that 5 other kids from this guys program went AWOL the same week. Color me strange, but coincidences like that make my alarms go off.Not me. Read the history of Afghan exchange students....
No. That is not how it works. I won't even bother trying to explain why not....
I didn't say it was. I said I'm sure that's the hope (of someone implimenting the exchange program).
....I'm sure that's the hope (of someone implimenting the exchange program).I agree that there are people with their heads so far up their asses that any O2 at all gives them a high rivaling Thailand's finest. Still, I think the majority of those that support these programs and ram it down taxpayer's throats do so for ulterior motives -- not for helping out the exchange students or the citizens of this country.
Before anyone questions -- no, I am not against an exchange program. I am against bringing in people that are simply flight risks. If those kids feel let out, they should talk to their brethren....
Not likely to be "jihad" but certainly just another example of the lunacy of inviting everyone from the planet to see the joys of our country.
And we REALLY expect after they have experienced running water, clean and well-stocked stores, and women that don't NEED a robe covering the entire body -- to just up and go home at the end of their visit.
Fuck, I hate society....
I once made a comment to a Customs Agent who was clearing a flight for me that airports should have a sign in many languages greeting visitors getting off the plane:
"Thanks for visiting our country, now get the hell out."
I meant it, but he gave me a look like I had sinned against the gods of political correctness.
Of course, that was two years before 9/11.
I bet the little booger eater found a hot american girl, and decided the unshaven girls of CO just were not to his liking, or on the other hand maybe he just decided DC was more like home with all the violence.
Remington Raider
3 May 2008, 02:34
What were his grades in chem class?
iraqgunz
4 May 2008, 11:45
I just read in the paper that they have appeared on the radar screens in Canada and they are asking for asylum? WTF, over? Asylum from what?
I just read in the paper that they have appeared on the radar screens in Canada and they are asking for asylum? WTF, over? Asylum from what?It doesn't matter. The word alone gains sympathy and I imagine a certain amount of default legal protection from immediate deportation....
"An exchange student" Is an American student going to school someplace in Afghanistan?
We've got thousands of 'exchange students' in Afganistan. ;)
iraqgunz
4 May 2008, 14:38
Kind of like John Walker Lindh?
"An exchange student" Is an American student going to school someplace in Afghanistan?
Exchange programs are beneficial, as long as the students have been properly vetted prior to entering the country. When I spent a year at SIU, I enjoyed speaking Arabic to a bunch of Kuwaiti students on their way to classes. They didn't get too paranoid. As for me, I never quite got used to Southern Illinois... :D
I had two sisters that particpated in semester abroad programs in college, and a niece that just returned from a church project in Zambia. The big difference between them and their counterparts from many countries is that they looked forward to going home, not overstaying their visa and attempting to settle in their host country.
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