I woke up this morning and turned on the news.  Fox & Friends had a report about a couple of men being refused entry to the United States because they are on the Terrorism Watch List.  So, I started doing some research and looking around the 'net for more information.  I did find one article in the San Francisco Chronicle.

According to the article:
Muhammad Ismail, a 45-year-old naturalized citizen born in Pakistan, and his 18-year-old son, Jaber Ismail, who was born in the United States, have not been charged with a crime. However, they are the uncle and cousin of Hamid Hayat, a 23-year-old Lodi cherry packer who was convicted in April of supporting terrorists by attending a Pakistani training camp.

In seems that Hamid claimed that the 18 year old, Jaber Ismail, went to at least one terrorist camp while studying the Koran.

They now have an ACLU lawyer, Julia Harumi Mass, representing them.

My thoughts:  Almost all of the terrorism acts in the last 10 years have been perpetrated but young muslim men.  If you are a young muslim, and you spend 4 years in a foreign country, you better have a good story when you try to get back in to the United States. 

According to the article:
The Ismails had been in Pakistan partly so Jaber could study the Quran, Mass said. She said that neither he nor his father had anything to do with terrorism.

A simple question: How does Mass know that they have nothing to do with terrorism?  I will assume it is because they said so.  Unanswerable question: if we went back in time and asked the terrorists who flew the airplanes in to the World Trade Center buildings, the Pentagon, and a field on the way to a site in Washington DC, probably the White House, if they were terrorists, would they have said yes?  I am going to go out on a limb and guess they would have said no.

If the Ismails can satisfy the FBI and other authorities, I have no problem with them returning to the United States.  If the Ismails did attend a terrorist training camp, I would rather they never be allowed near the United States.