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For
Immediate Release
August 13, 2006
All 11 Egyptian students are now in custody
WASHINGTON, D.C – U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents
in Richmond, VA tonight arrested two additional Egyptian nationals who were
part of a group of 11 Egyptian students that entered the United States at New
York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport last month and failed to
show up for a scheduled academic program at Montana State University.
Special agents from ICE and the FBI have now apprehended all of the original
11 Egyptian students who were the subject of a BOLO issued to law enforcement
agencies nationwide last week. All have been taken into custody on administrative
immigration violations as out-of-status students.
At roughly 8:45 PM Eastern Time tonight, ICE agents arrested Egyptian nationals
Mohamed Saleh Ahmed Maray, age 20, and Mohamed Ibrahim Fouaad El Shenawy, age
17, at an apartment building in Richmond. ICE received critical assistance
from the Virginia State Police and the Richmond Police in locating these individuals.
On Friday night, ICE agents in Des Moines, Iowa arrested Ahmed Refaat Saad
El Moghazi El Laket, age 19; Mohamed Ibrahim El Sayed El Moghazy, age 20; and
Moustafa Wagdy Moustafa El Gafary, age 18. ICE agents tracked these students’ travels
from New York to San Francisco to Des Moines.
On Thursday, ICE agents arrested El Sayed Ahmed Elsayed Ibrahim, age 20,
and Alaa Abd El Fattah Ali El Bahnasawi, age 20, in Dundalk, Maryland. Also
on Thursday, the Chicago Police Department detained Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Abou
El Ela, age 22 at O’Hare International Airport as he attempted to book
a flight to Montana. He was turned over to ICE.
On Wednesday, the Manville, N.J. Police Department detained Mohamed Ragab
Mohamed Abd Alla, age 22, and Ebrahim Mabrouk Moustafa Abdou, age 22. Both
were turned over to ICE. The same day, FBI and ICE agents arrested Eslam Ibrahim
Mohamed El-Dessouki, age 21, in Minneapolis.
Preliminary investigation by ICE and FBI agents has not identified any credible
or imminent threat posed by any of the eleven Egyptian students.
