It’s doubtful the eleven Egyptian students who failed to turn up for the Montana State University foreign student exchange program in Montana are still searching for their luggage at Kennedy Airport.

Perhaps Brokeback Mountain was the in-flight movie during the trip over from Egypt and it frightened the gentle Egyptian youths.

Athough the officials at Montana State University and the FBI don’t consider the missing Egyptian students an actual threat something tells me they are playing something more than hooky.

Could it be they wanted to take in some Broadway Shows?

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Maybe they wanted some really good New York Pizza.

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Or Bagels?

(AP) Eleven Egyptian students who arrived in the United States last month are being sought by authorities after failing to turn up for an exchange program at Montana State University.

The Egyptian men were among a group of 17 students who arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York from Cairo on July 29 with valid visas, according to U.S. authorities and university officials.

The other six have arrived at the Bozeman, Mont., campus for a monthlong program on English language instruction and U.S. history and culture, university spokeswoman Cathy Conover said.

When the 11 didn’t turn up by the end of the last week, the FBI issued a lookout to state and local law enforcement, said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko.

“At this point all they have done is not show up for a scheduled academic program,” Kolko said. “There is no threat associated with these men.”

They are between 18 and 22 years old, said a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the search for the men is continuing.

U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement declined to make their names public.

The government probably will seek to send the students home once they are located because they have violated the terms of their visas, the official said.

I lost a treasured gold watch (given to me by my grandmother) in Kennedy Airport while carrying my baby daughter when we were returning from overseas for a visit with family so I don’t have any good memories of that airport.

None at all.

I just recall carrying my sixteen month old daughter and holding my three year old son’s hand as we walked through long, dark corridors and then standing in snake-like lines waiting on ticket agents who never looked up at anyone’s faces, much less ours. It’s no wonder Islamics can bleed right into our country for destinations unknown.

Jihad Watch writes….

“How many such incidents must occur before authorities begin to reconsider the wisdom of such programs in the first place?”

Michelle Malkin provides a virtual feast of links to interesting posts.

Allahpundit has more disquieting developments.