Egypt Releases American Students Arrested For Alleged Firebombing
- Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:02pm by
Buck Sexton
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(The Blaze/AP)- The three American Students arrested for allegedly throwing firebombs at Egyptian security forces who were battling protesters in Tahrir Square have been released and will likely soon make their way home to the U.S.
Derrik Sweeney, Luke Gates and Gregory Porter (pictured above), who attend the American University in Cairo, were arrested on the roof of a university building near Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square on Sunday for allegedly throwing Molitov cocktails at police.
Attorney Ted Simon, who represents Porter, a 19-year-old student at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said he is still waiting to find out if the students actually have been set free, though a court had ordered their release.
The Americans are being released despite a Tweet from Luke Gates that, according to CBS News, appeared to confirm active participation in the protest, including the line “I feel so reckless.” Also, as CBS reports, Gates tweeted “wish the protests in New York looked like the ones in Tahrir.”
The 21-year-old Gates is a student of Indiana University. On the same twitter account, he also apparently wrote of his desire to renounce his U.S. citizenship, though this tweet came in advance of U.S. Embassy efforts to procure his release:
Earlier Thursday, Egyptian officials said a court had ordered the students’ release. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media. They did not say when the students would be released.
Joy Sweeney said she wasn’t sure when her son, a student at Georgetown University, would be returning to their home in Jefferson City, Mo.
Asked what she thought her son would take away from his arrest, Sweeney said she thought he would make something useful of it.
“I‘m sure that he’ll put a life-lesson learning experience into a positive story,” Sweeney said. “He’s a writer, he will write about this experience.”
You can watch video discussing the release of the students here, courtesy of CNN:
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Comments (79)
alpha2omega47
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:24pmSpoiled liberal children.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:25pmCIA Hiring Stupid Looking Spies.
If they were actually throwing fire bombs at COPs they should have faced Sharia and had their head rolled. Now there will be returned to America to join the millions of mental defectives we have.
Report Post »rockmanlinux
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:38pmHe’s no liberal…that is unless you say “communist”.
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:31amThey should have been tried under sharia law, and had their heads cut off. It would have served them right!!! And then to say they wished that the protests were as violent in the USA!!! Damned, I’d like to beat them senseless. Spoiled 1% brats!!!
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:10amThis is our future? We’re screwed…..
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:10pmSad thing is there is a whole generation of these kinds of lazy, good for nothing eggheads.
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 9:29pmnot egg heads but dumb a*ssess
Report Post »brado9505
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:09pmlove to meet these traitors when they come home. beat their heads in!
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:27pmThey will be flying into JFK, why don’t you meet them there. They are the stupid looking ones.
Report Post »garygromele
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:53pmI see the parents haven‘t apologized for their sons idiotic participation in another Country’s internal conflict. Because of their parents lack of remorse of their children would explain their behavior. I’m sure Soros made phone calls on behalf of “Der Leader” to release these morons because it was counter-productive to keep them.
Hopefully these “World Citizens” will be shipped off to Egypt, where they belong.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:47pm“I feel so reckless.” – Luke Gates
It is doubtful that is in reference to just joining the crowd, since they were on the roof of a building.
Were they holding up signs that the Egyptian police found offensive? Were they chanting or raising their fist?
If they had fire bombs there is no way i would want back here. Maybe the Egyptian police are lying, but regardless these people sound dangerous to their fellow citizens
Report Post »becca_leigh
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:41pmwe don’t want them back!! KEEP THE IDIOTS!!! they’re not US citizens, they’re “world citizens”….not our problem!!
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:12pmEgypt hates us, that‘s why they’re sending them back.
Report Post »michael79
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:31pmYeah, Becca, my sentiments exactly… keep the little bastards.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:40pmIf they want to renounce their American citizenship, why are they coming back? Let Egypt keep ‘em.
Report Post »expat.egypt
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 7:57amWe don’t want them either — find a neutral 3rd country
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:33pmgreat – we have a SOLDIER serving our country, The USofA –
BERGDAHL is KIDNAPPED in June 2009 – and is stll being held hostage in Afghanistan.
*****
But yet Obama moves on getting these three twits out of trouble they caused to themselves – by getting involved in the protests in Egypt.
Absolutely DISGRACEFUL!
I guess Obama needs these little slimeballs for the OWS protests.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:51pmYou could be onto something. The agitators released by Iran support OWS. Obama, a community agitator, would be correct in assuming that these three will agitate upon release form Egypt as well.
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:38amUseful idiots.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:29pmTRAITORS to our country- denouncing their US citizenship – and then asking our US Govt to bail-out these little slimeballs.
They should have been held accountable in Egypt – for what they did in Egypt = time for the crime.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:25pmThe poor kids look petrified.
However, how much time and effort did it cost our US Govt – and US taxpayers – to spring these ingrates – throwing FIREBOMBS?
They are lucky they are not being held accountable for their crimes!
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:12pmI really don’t want them hurt but I certainly wish their captors
Report Post »would teach them a lesson. I think they should be punished
by our Country for denouncing it.Nothing will happen and they
will become emboldened, You just have to know their parents
will not do a thing to them. THIS IS OUR FUTURE.
Hiswill
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:10pmKeep them!
Report Post »ourig
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:47pmif it was up to me i will let them seat in prison and let them deal with it by them self
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:44pmRemember in the middle east sex with women is for making babys and young boys like these three are “for fun” they had better keep thier backs to the wall in that jail or they might get a life lesson that there not soon to forget.
Report Post »netmail
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:44pmEnemies from within, born and raised right here in America and indoctrinated to be hard core, outspoken traitors by the American education system itself. These three little turds are not the big story here. American educators are.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:41pmEgypt didn’t even want them, thats bad. They are a clear reflection of their parents. These little rich kids should not be allowed back into the states. They seem to me to be hostile of America and her citizens. I’ve warned enough idiots, bring this crap to me and there will be a beat down that would make that Rodney King thing look like a girlscout meeting.
Report Post »texasfireguy
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:33pmI bet they wanted big bad Uncle Sam to come save them, then come back as heroes to the left, as they bad mouth the same system that saved them. Typical hypocritical behavior that we see from the idiotic left.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:29pmIn 2008, Obama introduced himself to a Berlin crowd as a proud U.S. citizen and a “fellow citizen of the world.” The little marxists have learned well from their marxist professors and the Marxist-in-chief. I’ll pitch in for their one way ticket out of America, bye.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:21pmObama can’t have dual citizenship and therefore is disqualified to be president.
Report Post »Kiba
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:28pmThey wish the protest over here were like the ones over there in Egypt? Well I say send them back and deny them entrance into this country ever again.
Report Post »perry1980
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:19pmThese kids should get their @sses beat by their parents. They are lucky they are not in jail for life
Report Post »acdcguy
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:24pmAgree but not by their parents but just a good ol whupping!!!!!!!!
Report Post »spotster
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:41pmthere parents should be beat daily
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:41amUnfortunately, they are chips off the parents block.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:11pmWere these people not schooled on the laws in Egypt?
I know I was when I went to British school while my father was stationed in Scotland, not all of them just the ones I was most likely to run afoul of as a 14 yr old.
These fellows made conscious decisions they should receive the results …
Report Post »solabola71
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:11pmAnother reason to cut higher education funding.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:11pmThese idiots want a massive bloodbath like in Tahir square? Stay in Egypt then.
Report Post »Krazy_Kreepy_Ketchup
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:09pmThey wish OWS looked like tahrir square… I wonder how they feel after this arrest. This nonsense would not be happening if mubarak was running the show again.
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:29pmIf they really want to show off for their girl friends (or boy friends) they should go to Terran and throw a couple at Ahmadinejad. Whatever they choose I‘m sure they’ll go far in life.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:30pmSomehow I have to wonder if the reason they got out so easily is they belong to, or have joined the Muslim Brotherhood.
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:43amThe blond one looked scared witless. Now that they are free, I am sure he will make himself out to be quite the heroic crusader.
Report Post »PapaJohannesPatriot
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:08pmIf these buttheads were involved in throwing the bombs, let Egypt keep them. they’ll likely come back here and throw some bombs as members of one of those Occupier groups.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:08pmWhat a trio of stupid naieve a@@es ! Don’t they realize that they could have caused an international incident just like the other 3 stupid a@@es n Iran?
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 4:47amYah, the only reason those three bleeding heart lib terds did what they did, is 1. Because they thought they would be welcomed with open and loving arms to the tune of Kumbaya, and 2. They wanted to prove that America is wrong about Islam and the middle east being evil extremists. Did they get a rude awakening. They were very lucky they were not killed. They were useful political idiot pawns.
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