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Eleven Egyptian students on their way to a month-long cultural exchange to Montana are now unaccounted for somewhere in the U.S.:

Eleven Egyptian students who were supposed to travel to a Montana university after flying to JFK airport late last month disappeared in New York, spurring federal authorities to issue a nationwide alert, officials said yesterday.

The students — who were traveling with six classmates from Mansoura University in Egypt — had their student visas revoked for failing to show up at Montana State University in Bozeman, the officials said.

The other six students made it to the college.

“The FBI and ICE [Immigration and Custom Enforcement] would like to locate these 11 students in order to speak with them,” said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko after the “be-on-the-lookout” alert was issued to all police in the United States.

No offense to Big Sky Country, but when you think about it, is it all that strange that some of the students may have bagged out? The program doesn’t sound like something you’d want to travel halfway around the world for:

Montana State University Provost David Dooley said 17 Mansoura University students signed up for a 32-day cultural-exchange program to intensively study English, learn about Montana history and go on several field trips.

Meanwhile, Peter King is saying what you’re thinking:

Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said the situation “has to be taken very seriously.”

“Having a number of students from an Arab country arriving on student visas and disappearing is cause for concern,” he said.