Who Knows What This Is?

via Memeorandum comes this story from Tampa of two young Saudi men -- but make no mistake, they are clearly adults -- who got on a school bus and rode it to a high school.

All sorts of innocent explanations are offered, and all sorts of innocent explanations are possible, but what makes me very, very nervous isn't even their changing stories (who knows the context out of which we get those changes -- maybe no translators were present and confusion reigned on both sides) what makes me very, very nervous is this: if this was simply an innocent mistake, as CAIR of course instantly jumped in to insist, why do the Saudis first insist they're from Morroco?

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[Wayne]

From the Florida Today website (not the entire article):

Two Saudi men were held without bond Sunday after they were arrested for boarding a school bus full of children, authorities said.

Mana Saleh Almanajam, 23, and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, 20, were charged with misdemeanor trespassing and were being held at Orient Road Jail after a judge said Saturday she wanted more background information on them.

The two men arrived in the country six months ago on student visas and are enrolled at the English Language Institute at the University of South Florida.

Investigators said they boarded the school bus Friday, sat down and began speaking in Arabic. Their behavior concerned the driver, a substitute, who alerted the school district.

The men were asked why they boarded the bus, and sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway said they gave different answers: They wanted to enroll in an easier English language program than the one at USF, they wanted to see a high school, and they thought it would be fun.

[John Burgess]

And the Tampa Tribune is reporting today that they were cleared of all charges. Except for being rather stupid.