Posted on 12/06/2005 6:37:33 PM PST by willyd
The day before terrorists attacked New York and Washington, a fifth-grader in a Dallas suburb told his teacher World War III would begin the next day, school officials have told the FBI.
The boy was absent from school the day of the attacks, Sept. 11, and the following day, but has been at school since then, said Rhonda Lucich, a director of elementary education for the Garland Independent School District.
Lucich said the boy approached his teacher on the afternoon of Sept. 10 and casually told her:
"Tomorrow, World War III will begin. It will begin in the United States, and the United States will lose."
Lucich said the child's statements were passed along to the FBI. She said she did not know whether the agency had acted on the tip. An FBI spokesman could not be reached for comment.
Lucich said school officials are concerned, but not alarmed.
"It is one of those things I sincerely want to believe was coincidental," Lucich said.
Lucich declined to name the elementary school involved. She said she was told about the boy's comment by his teacher and the school's principal two days after the Sept. 11 attacks.
She said the boy is multiracial but that she does not believe his ethnicity includes a Middle Eastern background.
U.S. officials believe Middle Eastern terrorists linked to Saudi Arabian exile Osama bin Laden are responsible for last week's attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.
Garland is a northern suburb of Dallas. Two charities in the neighboring suburb of Richardson have been investigated in the past for possible ties to Palestinian terrorist organizations.
The Global Relief Foundation Inc. and the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, both based in Richardson, have been investigated on allegations they raised money for Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization. Both organizations have denied such activity.
Who is that guy?
I think it was in 2002? But I had scratched a list of how many politicians were out of country that day....
Gave me chills.
My first inclination when I heard the story originally was to believe it.
You are local. You don't remember reading all those stories during 2001? There were articles on them even after the rumors started about them being urban legends.
The internet is a dangerous place for you then.
When the teachers were asked to produce the child, in all but one case, the kid didn't exist and the one who did, left that school, after his parents refused to allow him to talk to the FBI.
Won It.
What do you mean "you are local"? And actually, no, I don't remember, as I made a major move from NYS to Georgia to care for a friend with a terminal disease and may have been otherwise distracted.
Cult leader? Something about space aliens?
I had a friend (I haven't seen her in years) who actually had dreams that later came to pass, very involved specific dreams. She told be about some of them before hand so I know she was telling the truth. All of her dreams didn't happen. Usually the first part of the dream would happen, the latter parts would not.
I've got to get this posting thing down.
Sorry to hear about your friend.
You have NY flag on your profile, so I assumed you read the local news.
Our NJ.com had several articles about the students that spoke about the towers coming down before it happened.
The names strike a cord.
Thanks. It was a rough two years, however, yes, I am back in NY. Eastern upstate.
These stories were all over the N.Y. Post and local news and turned out to be a hoax/urban legend!
Slow news day in Houston.
I never heard the proof of hoax or urban legend.
Local news was still covering it even after the net rumors started with the hoax insinuations.
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