foreign students leave US

[Randy Earnest]

Indian coverage of UAE students.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/lead.htm
"UAE students pursuing higher studies in the United States have been given
the choice of either returning home or staying back in the US in the wake of
harassment of Arabs and Muslims following last week's attacks in New York
and Washington.
This was stated yesterday by an official of the UAE Embassy in Washington
DC. Abdullah Al Sebousi told Khaleej Times there was no truth in reports
that the mission in the US had been directed by the UAE authorities to ask
national students to discontinue their studies for the current semester and
arrange for their return to the UAE.

"We have not received any such instruction and many UAE students have gone
back to their colleges and are attending their classes as usual," Mr Al
Sebousi said." .......

However, he added, the embassy had so far not received any report about a
UAE national facing harassment. "A large number of our students we contacted
said they were fine and safe and were not facing any problem whatsoever.
However, some of them were a bit worried."

He added that many students contacted by the embassy were back to the normal
pattern of life and were attending their classes regularly.

About 3,000 UAE students are at present studying in various specialisations
in colleges and universities throughout the US. "Most of them are students
sent by the government on scholarships, but there are many others who are
studying on their own," Mr Sebousi said.

Randy Earnest