Most likely is they’re simply keeping under the radar and doing something perfectly innocent. Maybe they’re out fly fishing. Or just wanted to get into the US and are living like any other illegal immigrant.
Less likely is that they are terrorists.
Not sure how likely, but perhaps they have checked into Cheney’s Gitmo Hotel.
Eleven college age boys in a foriegn country for the first time act irresponsibly. Is this really front page news? Also, if Homeland is on top of it, wouldn’t these newspaper reports be more of a hinderance to Homeland’s work than a help?
Oh, right. Its only 13 weeks until the Election. :smack:
Buys up the rights to “Mohammed Bueller’s Day Off”
Well suppose one of them turns out to be Mohammed Atta’s brother?-You MIGHT remember him-he flew a hijacked airplane in the World Trade Center towers. But hey, I’m prejudiced you say?
What I’m after is the lack of concern. yes, most likely these 11 are just college students…but they might NOT be-ever consider that possibility?
I’m far from “Joe Average”, and I grasp it just fine, but what I see is another leftie unwilling to face the flaws in his political creed, so he runs around screaming “It’s not me! It’s a conspiracy! A conspiracy I tell you!”. Perhaps those people you refer to as “Joe Average” simply have a normal ability to detect bullshit and are naturally wary of those slinging it.
(I can’t resist)
The Democratic Party has been infected with this, like a disease.
That’s a huge “what if”. I think if one of them was, he’d never have been admitted to the country. Give me a break- you really think the people in charge of issuing student visas are that lax? If one of them was related to a 9/11 hijacker or any other high-profile terrorist, something that frightening would have been reported in the news articles cited (except, of course, that you didn’t bother to cite one). The articles that Crotalus cited stated that all of these students underwent background checks, and that there were indeed students who failed these tests. Do you really find it that implausible that a group of 18-21 year old college students from a conservative culture blew off school for a few wild nights in New York City? Until something more substantial comes along, I’ll mark this as one of the stupider instances of fear-mongering I’ve seen in quite a while, and be pleased that at least the news services are treating this like the minor story that it is.
If you were trying to sneak into a country in order to do something illegal, would you do it with ten of your co-conspirators, all at once?
Me, I’d try to arrange it so that we all came in over a few months, through different means, and met at a prearranged location and time. Seems to me that would raise less suspicion. Of course eleven guys disappearing all at once would be noticed… but who’d notice eleven guys, all seemingly unrelated, taking a walk one weekend?