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The Secret Service is looking into its own security procedures after determining that a Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, managed to slip into Tuesday night's state dinner at the White House even though they were not on the guest list, agency spokesman Ed Donovan said.
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Maybe I'm stretching things a bit, but I'm wondering
which guest-list they weren't on. The copy that the media was given or the official copy? If I'm understanding the tranliteration of this name correctly, I believe the first name is "Pathway" (common Muslim name) and last name is "One who prays". We'll see how this gets spun, but I still have my suspicions.
EDIT: So I decided to satisfy my curiosity. This gets more interesting than what I'm seeing from AP. First, I tried looking him up to get a home county to check a few records. No results. So I tried some common transliterations of what believe his name is in Arabic. I found one "Tarek Salehi" in VA, two addresses but only one phone number. I won't post it here since I can't confirm it is indeed the same individual. Whitepage search it if you want it. So, armed with a plausible secondary spelling and two possible addresses, I went to look his property in the Rockingham, VA county records. Strangely enough, none of the listed names or even the addresses given in the whitepages show up in the county records search. Coincidence? Maybe, I'm too far out there to accept that. But, it does get weirder.
Next, I run across this article from "Kabob Fest", calling him the "coolest Arab of the moment", and identifying him as part of the American Task Force on Palestine.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/11/tar...he-moment.html
As the article mentions, he has been removed from their site. I also found a blank page that dates back at least to NOV 4th with the heading "Tareq Salahi".
Lucky for us Google has quite the caching program. Here are links.
Tarek Salahi (profile page)
Listing of Board Members (from NOV 16, before he was removed), using "Tareq" spelling
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