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Where is this Saudi student, and what is he doing?
Another disquieting revelation from the recently vindicated Annie Jacobsen in Womens Wall Street, with thanks to LGF:
On October 15, 2006, a young Saudi Arabian male named Anwar Al——,* (His full name will not be used for legal reasons) claiming to be an engineering student at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, presented what must have been false documents to United States Customs and Immigration (CIS) at an east coast airport and managed to slip into the country illegally. This is something that is not easily done: for a citizen of Saudi Arabia to get into the United States to attend an institution of higher learning requires the scrutiny of multiple, Cabinet level federal agencies. Customs was the last line in a series of Homeland Security controls that began halfway around the world at the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Anyone who has picked up a newspaper since September 11, 2001 understands why this is the procedure: fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were Saudi nationals.Those 15 Saudis were issued visas and allowed entrance by United States officials. In other words, technically, those 15 hijackers came here with US consent. For reasons that are tragically obvious, after those 15 Saudis and their four colleagues killed 3000 people, the question of how they got permission to come here so easily caused great alarm. US citizens demanded reform and they got it—sort of. A 100-year old agency was disbanded (INS), the visa-issuing facility in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (where most of the Saudi 9/11 hijackers received their visas) was shuttered and hundreds of millions of dollars flooded into the system to make sure no more murderous terrorists from Saudi Arabia would be coming our way.
So how did this Saudi kid presenting himself as a student slip into the United States without being stopped? And what was his reason for doing so? And illegal entry is only one of the federal offenses Anwar Al—— appears to have committed. Others raise even more serious alarms; events just three days after being admitted to the US involving this young, Saudi male raise the national security stakes exponentially. What happened next is enough to make you ask, just who is Saudi Arabia sending our way anyway – and what exactly are we doing about it?
Read it all.
Posted by Robert at May 31, 2007 2:32 PM
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I touch on Saudi Arabia and student visas in this new, long-promised piece. Enjoy:
The Road to Victory in Iraq Runs Over Iran and Islam
Posted by: Foehammer![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at May 31, 2007 3:05 PM
And this is after 11 Egyptian "students" never showed up at Montana State University last August.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207369,00.html
(As I recall, 8 of those guys were later accounted for.)
But, what's the problem? The Saudis are our friends and allies! Besides, our Dept of Homeland Security and it crackerjack teams are probably zealously pursuing this guy. (Does anybody know how much our new, useless, alphabet-soup of security services is actually costing us? Are they actually doing anything? Or are they still waiting for their luxury office buildings to be built, and the super-duper custom-designed computer systems to be developed, before they can get started on any real work?)
Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at May 31, 2007 3:21 PM
Excellent read by the indefatigable Anne Jacobsen. I recommend that everyone read the entire 9 page article.
Posted by: Mackie at May 31, 2007 3:30 PM
such incompetence .... all those whose responsibility it is to stop terrorists "especially if they appear on the suspect list" who fail to act should be fired immediately if not jailed for being an accessory to terror...
...this is typical government beauracacy...the blind leading the blind....
too bad the agent could not have handcuffed the suspect to a rail and then told the FBI or other involved agency to come and get him..."I've done my job...now do yours!!"
...by the way did you know several people in the immigration depart who are in charge of issuing visas and other identification papers are Muslim?.....
no wonder it was easy to get in...
Posted by: exsgtbrown at May 31, 2007 3:36 PM
It's amazing that anyone would go to that much trouble. Travel to Mexico and simply walk across the border like uncounted millions of others including gout-ridden central-American grandmas.
Thanks PResident Bush! Mission Accomplished!
at May 31, 2007 3:38 PM
What's there to worry about?
Our President assures us Islam is a religion of peace.
But seriously ... anyone willing to make a guess how many others like this slipped through our porous borders without ever being questioned.
3 a day, every day, for 10 years is about 11,000.
Posted by: LoneRanger at May 31, 2007 3:42 PM
Foehammer, loved your article. You might have mentioned that although jihad has been going on since the time of Muhamad, its modern incarnation had two parents - Arafatism, and Khomeinism. We've been told for years that Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism, and more recently, that Iranians have naturally begun to tire of their glorious revolution. What are the chances of scaring the Iranian military enough into engaging in a coup? And wouldn't that quickly let much (not all) of the air out of the tire of violent jihad (as opposed to the slower-killing cultural jihad)? Would that change the situation on the ground in Iraq dramatically? (I'd like to think so.)
Posted by: Surak at May 31, 2007 3:53 PM
"3 a day, every day, for 10 years is about 11,000.
Posted by: LoneRanger"
..probably a low estimate....
at May 31, 2007 3:59 PM
When one hears about multiple controls in a sequence being broken in the Philippines, it is called "corruption".
Posted by: payingattention at May 31, 2007 4:45 PM
Foehammer
Your article makes some great points. Given the disaster in Iraq, I wondered what, if anything, could be done to extricate us from the quagmire. Your emphasis on attacking Iran as the key to "success" does, in spite of my initial skepticism, make sense. There really may be no other way than the way you suggest.
Posted by: Ynkedoodl2 at May 31, 2007 4:49 PM
I will Not be surprised if some of the (minor?) attacks that occur in the next few years on US soil, happen on various college campuses around the country. Each and every one about the size of the VT mess.
And who will they crack down on? Conservative groups and Christians, for having somehow 'incited' the violence.
Posted by: Gary at May 31, 2007 4:57 PM
" I recommend that everyone read the entire 9 page article.
Posted by: Mackie [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 31, 2007 3:30 PM"
Good recommendation. I read the whole article.
Our government is a speed bump or a series of them.
Determined drivers can drive over them at more than moderate speed. Speed bumps keep honest drivers from going fast.
Its like fences and honest neighbors. The system is really set up assuming 99.99... percent are honest.
When that assumption isn't true, and you have determined adversaries it doesn't work. Its not designed for them, and it won't adjust to them until it experiences that some higher percentage like over 1 percent are in fact adversarial.
As long as the actual number of completed terrorist attacks in the US are low, the government does not see anything wrong with its procedures. This is the pre 9-11 mentality. Its the same as after the WTC 1993 attacks.
Government regulations and the media make clear that not being racist is the first, second and third directives.
Our society is comfortable with slow suicide.
It will take massive education from Jihad Watch and others to change this. It will take as big an effort as the left has mounted in the last x years to change this thinking as it did for the left to make not being racist the only criterion in all government activity.
A government employee has a guaranteed career as long as they are not racist. There was no accountability for 9-11, because government employees didn't violate their directives, no government employee was racist in the leadup to 9-11, so none were punished, they didn't do anything wrong.
Posted by: Old Atlantic at May 31, 2007 5:03 PM
If Bush began attacking Saud support for terrorism, then he won't get a Saud financed library, like daddy did.
Posted by: supercargo at May 31, 2007 8:13 PM
Or a Saud-financed library, like Clinton did.
Posted by: Gary at May 31, 2007 8:18 PM
"And illegal entry is only one of the federal offenses Anwar Al—— appears to have committed"
Illegal entry? DHS would laugh at that!
We have twelve to twenty MILLION people in this country who've committed the same crime. They won't face the law, either. They'll get forgiveness for taxes not paid and they'll get visas as soon as Congress sells out America. Illegal entry is less than a misdemeanor to them. It ranks with spitting on the sidewalk.
University Administrator James Felton came back on the line. "Arkansas law prevents you from recording our conversation," he said. Then he hung up.
Another policy along the lines of sanctuary cities. Arkansas should be stripped of all DHS funding and told to secure itself.
"This begs the question, what possibly could have been worth more to Anwar Al—— than a free ticket to an American University? One wonders if a ticket to Paradise promised Anwar Al—— a greater reward."
One suggestion is that he was a tester. Check the security system and let others who want that ticket to paradise know what they should do (and not do) to evade detection or suspicion by uncaring DHS officials. At worst he would have been sent home for a few months. He's probably the type to send others to paradise, but not himself. Testing the American security apparatus is his contribution to the greater jihad.
Posted by: PMK at May 31, 2007 8:54 PM
7500 students from Saudi Arabia come here paid for mostly by the Saudi's each year?
Our friends, the Saudis, certainly benefit from American largesse. We pay them handsomely for their oil and they send us their terrorists (9/11), use American soldiers to be on the front lines in their ages' old conflict of Sunni and Shia, send us their sons and daughters to take the places of our sons and daughters in our universities, continue to plan for their revived caliphate with Jerusalem as its capital, build mosques on American soil and around the globe with radical clerics and use their wealth to influence our politicians and intellectuals.
We pay a very large price for the friendship of our Saudi friends, while, they pay, next to nothing for what they reap in return. If hydrogen (or hydrogen in water) technology, wind power,solar power, or nuclear power,we may break free from this malignant codependence on Saudi 'goodwill.'
Posted by: BurkasforHitlery at June 1, 2007 9:37 AM
Insert "are ever developed to their full potential" in that last sentence between "nuclear power" and "we."
The next time I have to stand in line for an hour at the airport in my bare feet and have some one rifle through my handbag, I'll remember Anwar. Anwar, another Saudi son who came to America, despite not having the proper security clearance and university enrollment. Anwar, who might still be out there wandering in search of a safe haven, a hot meal, a warm bed, a friendly face. Anwar,who might only be here to murder Americans, blow up buildings, steal our technology, or sabotage our military. Anwar who missed the DHS hospitality wagon and is adrift in a sea of American infidels who relegate their every waking thought to fulfilling their potential, making money and enjoying life and care little for the will of allha. Anwar, come back little jihadi!
Posted by: BurkasforHitlery at June 1, 2007 9:50 AM
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