{"id":1393,"date":"2006-08-08T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/imagine_his_disappointment_when_he_learned_that_jfk_wasnt_actually_the_planes_final_destination.html"},"modified":"2006-08-08T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T19:50:12","slug":"imagine_his_dis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/imagine_his_dis.html","title":{"rendered":"Imagine His Disappointment When He Learned That JFK Wasn&#8217;t Actually The Plane&#8217;s Final Destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven Egyptian students on their way to a month-long cultural exchange to Montana are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/egyptian_students_vanish_in_big_apple_regionalnews_dan_mangan.htm\">now unaccounted for somewhere in the U.S.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Eleven Egyptian students who were supposed to travel to a Montana university after flying to JFK airport late last month disappeared in New York, spurring federal authorities to issue a nationwide alert, officials said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The students &#8212; who were traveling with six classmates from Mansoura University in Egypt &#8212; had their student visas revoked for failing to show up at Montana State University in Bozeman, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The other six students made it to the college.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The FBI and ICE [Immigration and Custom Enforcement] would like to locate these 11 students in order to speak with them,&#8221; said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko after the &#8220;be-on-the-lookout&#8221; alert was issued to all police in the United States.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No offense to Big Sky Country, but when you think about it, is it all that strange that some of the students may have bagged out? The program doesn&#8217;t sound like something you&#8217;d want to travel halfway around the world for:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Montana State University Provost David Dooley said 17 Mansoura University students signed up for a 32-day cultural-exchange program to intensively study English, learn about Montana history and go on several field trips.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Peter King is saying what you&#8217;re thinking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said the situation &#8220;has to be taken very seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having a number of students from an Arab country arriving on student visas and disappearing is cause for concern,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven Egyptian students on their way to a month-long cultural exchange to Montana are now unaccounted for somewhere in the U.S.: Eleven Egyptian students who were supposed to travel to a Montana university after flying to JFK airport late last month disappeared in New York, spurring federal authorities to issue a nationwide alert, officials said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}