[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 30 (Thursday, March 9, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H848]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      YALE AND THE TALIBAN STUDENT

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, a former deputy foreign secretary and 
ambassador at large for the rogue Taliban regime is now a ``special 
student'' at the elitist Yale University. According to Yale's 
officials, they are proud to have this Taliban student.
  He legally entered our country on a student visa, of all things, 
issued by the State Department. That seems like nonsense to me. This 
offensive disregard for national security is not only ridiculous, it is 
frightening, and it has happened before. The hijackers who flew planes 
into the World Trade Center on 9/11, and who crashed into the Pentagon 
just down the street from us, entered the United States on, yes, 
student visas.
  What is even more incomprehensible is that Yale University is helping 
to educate this Taliban operative, who just 5 years ago was touring the 
United States for the Taliban, spreading propaganda and defending the 
Taliban's gospel of hate.
  Mr. Speaker, the Taliban is against everything freedom-loving people 
advocate. They advocate public torture, false imprisonment, 
mistreatment of women, and promotion of worldwide anarchy. Those are 
not accomplishments to be proud of.
  Yale would do well to admit students who are devoted to promoting 
peace and democracy, not those who so flagrantly advocate injustice, 
evil, and terror.
  That is just the way it is.

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