The FBI has issued an urgent nationwide alert for 11 Egyptian students who entered the United States last week but failed to show up for their courses at Montana State University.
An FBI advisory says there are, at present, no known connections to any terrorist group but that the students are to be “approached with caution” and taken into custody. They “are here illegally and wanted for questioning,” the advisory says.
The advisory comes just over a month before the five-year anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks on the United States.
“This is of very serious concern and is being closely tracked,” said Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
The FBI says the Egyptians arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on July 29 and disappeared. The advisory says the alert is nationwide but that there is specific concern the Egyptians may be on the Eastern Seaboard.
These 11 Egyptian students have been identified as follows:
(UPDATE: 3 have reportedly been captured – one confirmed)
1. IBRAHIM, EL SAYED AHMED ELSAYED; DOB OF 4/29/1986, PASSPORT 954757
2. EL DESSOUKI, ESLAM IBRAHIM MOHAMED; DOB OF 02/21/1985, PASSPORT 1002756 – CAPTURED
3. EL BAHNASAWI, ALAA ABD EL FATTAH ALI; DOB OF 04/02/1986, PASSPORT 934679
4. ABD ALLA, MOHAMED RAGAB MOHAMED; DOB OF 02/15/1984, PASSPORT 860972 – CAPTURED
5. EL LAKET, AHMED REFAAT SAAD EL MOGHAZI; DOB OF 09/01/1986, PASSPORT 943306
6. EL ELA, AHMED MOHAMED MOHAMED ABOU; DOB OF 02/02/1985, PASSPORT 595081
7. EL MOGHAZY, MOHAMED IBRAHIM ELSAYED; DOB OF 08/08/1986, PASSPORT 861073
8. ABDOU, EBRAHIM MABROUK MOUSTAFA; DOB OF 02/25/1984, PASSPORT 828682 – CAPTURED
9. EL GAFARY, MOUSTAFA WAGDY MOUSTAFA; DOB OF 07/01/1988, PASSPORT 861673
10. MARAY, MOHAMED SALEH AHMED; DOB OF 09/12/1985, PASSPORT 862634
11. EL SHENAWY, MOHAMED IBRAHIM FOUAAD; DOB OF 08/12/1988, PASSPORT 862534
This is nation wide, with specific region of interest is the eastern seaboard–from Maine to Florida. The predicate for this action is that these individuals are in the U.S. illegally and are wanted for questioning. Approach with caution.
And this from CounterTerrorism Blog:
Excerpts: “Consequently, I am not reassured when the FBI says that they do not know of any terrorist affiliations that these illegal aliens may have. It is not reassuring that we do not know, as these public relations spokespersons claim. The point is that I find it curious that there are millions of illegal aliens currently present in our country, but these 11 are the subject of a “Be on the lookout” alert. I do not believe that there are many other such illegal aliens who are the subject of a similar alert.”
Excerpt: “MSU alerted federal Homeland Security and Mansoura officials and notified the students via e-mail they had 24 hours to show up in Bozeman. None of them did, Dooley said.”
Excerpt: ” Officials at the Egyptian Consulate in New York and the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, D.C., said they were unfamiliar with the situation. ”
The last two excerpts were on that site and from an article from the NY Post.
Watching for updates here: UPDATES
Wild Thing’s comment……
The only thing I find odd about this is that this is not posted at the FBI website, nor is ICE saying anything that I know of. At least not as of this writing. Perhaps it is to cover themselves if they are wrong about these individuals, I am not sure. But they certainly notified all the various news media about it as an alert so there is a certain amount of concern for sure.
In order to get their student visas and get admitted to the program, the “students” also had to list a financial sponsor and provide a certification of financial support. Who were their sponsors?
I hope they profile these guys like crazy and any one else like this. Just ONE other thing, STOP allowing anyone into this country of ours from any Muslim country.
Minetta is gone. We should be profiling like crazy. Oh well, maybe a few more 9/11s and our leaders may get it. “It’s the mooselimbs, Dummy!”
“mooselimbs” good one Tom. Leaders are too weak to say no to PC bullcrap.grrrrrrr