3 at Yale accused of burning U.S. flag
Now the headline makes this sound like one of your regular idiot college kid flag-burning stunt, but when you actually read the story, you find a slightly different angle.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Three Yale University students, one a U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, were arrested on charges of setting fire to an American flag hanging outside a home.
Said Hyder Akbar, 23, Nikolaos Angelopoulos, 19, and Farhad Anklesaria, also 19, were arrested early Tuesday on charges ranging from reckless endangerment to arson, police said.
Akbar, a senior, was born in Pakistan but is a U.S. citizen, police said. He worked as an informal translator for U.S. forces during the invasion of Afghanistan and later published a memoir, "Come Back to Afghanistan," based on his experiences, the Yale Daily News reported Wednesday. [...]
Authorities said the three students had waved over two police officers in the area early Tuesday to ask for directions.
A short time later, the officers returned to the neighborhood to see if the students had found their way home and spotted the burning flag. One officer pulled down the burning flag and the other tracked down the three men, authorities said.
Dang pity we can't ship all 3 home to wherever they would apparently rather be- even the naturalized citizen.
Posted by: Nate at April 4, 2007 11:05 AMI have a feeling none of them would be doing such things in their home countries. Odd, huh.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at April 4, 2007 11:16 AM