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| Thousands of Scholarships Lift Saudi Enrollments in U.S. |
| 2005-12-18 |
| Urgently trying to improve relations with the United States, the Saudi Arabian government is promoting a scholarship program that has already more than doubled the number of new Saudi enrollments at American colleges and universities since last year. The program, aimed in part at reducing widespread hostility in the Saudi public toward the United States, has reversed a steady plunge in Saudi students here that started immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The Saudi government offered 5,000 students full four-year scholarships, complete with living allowances. About two-thirds of the 5,000 students enrolled in American schools this fall, the State Department said, and the number would have been higher had the United States been able to process all the visa requests. |
| Posted by:john |
| #6 Franks, haven't you figured out which side the academics are on? Hint: it's the same side as the MSM. |
| Posted by: Unomogum Unomp4825 2005-12-18 16:25 |
| #5 jeez Fulbright's for Pakis and Saudi "yellow brick roads" - no wonder it's so hard to put my kids through college....they're Americans and patriotic |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-12-18 15:41 |
| #4 Amen, john. Even if it's only 50, it's breathtakingly foolish. I'm all for widespread "hostility" between a Wahhabist "society" and the Last Bastion of Individual Freedom. Makes perfect sense. Just as taking them down and out of the World Game makes perfect sense. I worked with these guys - and there is another rather large program that you probably don't hear about, perhaps it's even larger than this "student" BS. Aramco sends lots of "chosen" (read: Mucho Wasta) employees to the US and UK for 1 year work assignments, supposedly to "season" them with a little "international" experience, at various oil companies - who are always more than willing to take on these drones cuz nothing says sucking up to the Saudis better. If they are seriously well-connected, they have wives which they get to take. It is expected, and probably encouraged, that they crank out at least one child during the gig - which means it gets to be an instant US citizen. If anyone here didn't think the Immigration bill debate regards automatic US citizenship wasn't important, think again. That was at least as important as any other part of the wrangling over the long run - and the Tranzi-symps knew it. The same shit happens with other hostile states, such as China, which send many thousands of their citizens here to "study". Adding it up and letting it percolate a bit and it's easy to see where this leads. It should make everyone here very very nervous and committed to overturning this moronic policy. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-12-18 15:38 |
| #3 Class Schedule Spring 2006 Chem 331 - Chemistry of Highly Exothermic Reactions Bio 319 - Pathogenic Organisms Phys Ed - Adv. Marksmenship History 103 - History of Oppression in the US (Dr. Churchill) Aviation - Pilot Licensure 2 Rel 622 - Grad. Studies in Islamic Jihad |
| Posted by: DMFD 2005-12-18 15:37 |
| #2 I keep seeing the 5000 figure and thinking -- 5000 Mohammed Attas |
| Posted by: john 2005-12-18 15:04 |
| #1 "The program, aimed in part at reducing widespread hostility in the Saudi public toward the United States" ROFL! YJCMTSU. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-12-18 14:09 |