Terror plot raises questions over student visas
Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Education, Immigration, Religion, Shera Crossan, Top Stories
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The United States needs to do this as well, the 9/11 Hijackers’ where here on student visas, along with many other questionable students that come to the United States that they can’t even keep track of.
Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, who comes from a wealthy family in Nigeria, was already showing signs of extremist views when he was granted a visa to study mechanical engineering at University College London in 2005.
After completing his studies in 2008 he travelled to the Middle East before applying to return to the UK in May for another six month course.
However, his request was refused by officials from the UK Borders Agency as he was attempting to enrol on a course being offered by an institution on the Government’s list of bogus colleges.
Despite the fact his entry was barred, questions still remain over the system which has seen more than one and a half million visas granted to overseas students during the last eight years.
Earlier this year a report by the Home Affairs Select Committee criticised the Government for failing to deal adequately with the explosion in bogus colleges springing up across the UK.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the committee said: “The government must restrict the term college to prevent any premises above a fish and chip shop from being able to claim it is a reputed educational institution.”
It is feared tens of thousands of foreign nationals have gained entry to Britain illegally under the scheme, with many avoiding detection and never leaving. In March tighter restrictions were introduced cutting the number of institutions allowed to recruit students from outside the UK.
Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migrationwatch has also been deeply critical of the system which he said provided a “gaping hole” in our immigration system.
He said: “We now issue 370,000 student visas a year – almost the entire population of Bristol or Manchester – yet hardly any of the applicants ever see hide nor hair of an Immigration Officer.”
There is also widespread concern that many legitimate universities and colleges are providing fertile recruiting grounds for radical Islamic preachers and banned groups. Radicalisation among students has been a problem since the 1990s, with many of those involved in terror plots being highly educated graduates. Ahmed Omar Sheikh, convicted of the kidnap and murder of the journalist Daniel Pearl, was a former student at London School of Economics, and Waseem Mughal, convicted of running a website for al-Qaeda in Iraq, was a former biochemistry student at Leicester University.
Mughal was a member of the university Islamic society, and the fertiliser bomber Jawad Akbar attended Islamic society meetings at Brunel University, while Yassin Nassari, convicted of smuggling plans for a Qassam rocket into Britain, was president of the University of Westminster’s Islamic society at its Harrow campus in Northwest London. The gang convicted of the plot to bring down transatlantic airliners in 2006 are also believed to have engaged in radical activities while at university.
Ringleader Abdulla Ahmed Ali, became radicalised as a teenager in East London, later completing a degree in computer systems engineering at City University.
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What ever the solution is, just please don’t ask Napolitano to explain it to us.
I have never seen such a moron. She gets asked questions, will say no, but then precede to explain something that shows she meant yes.
Many reporters have asked her “yes or no question” but she refuses to say yes or no, she just makes bs statements.
That and she looks like one ugly butch lesbian.
This would not happen if white countries DID NOT allow these people in to begin with, SECURITY AND SAFETY STARTS AT HOME OR THE RABBIT HOLE.