FBI Probes Suspicious Incident at Jewish Girls Middle School (Saudi Suspects)

SunSpot.net ^ | November 5, 2003 | Andrew A. Green

[Weimdog]

Officials at a Jewish girls middle school in Mount Washington told parents last week that the FBI is investigating a Middle Eastern couple who were spotted videotaping the Smith Avenue campus and pupils.

Shlomo Spetner, president of Bais Yaakov School for Girls, wrote to parents on Oct. 31 that a parent had spotted a car with a man and woman who appeared to be Middle Eastern.

The man is a Saudi national who is a student at a local college, Spetner said. According to a police report, he lives in the Fallstaff neighborhood of Northwest Baltimore.

[theDentist]

This may be wrong of me, but whenever I see "middle-eastern" and "student" I always think "terrorist suspect".

[anniegetyourgun]

How very ugly....even if just meant to intimidate.

[Naspino]

I don't see any reason a male college student from Saudi Arabia would sit in his car and video tape girls leaving from a Jewish school unless he was a rapist or a terrorist.

[barker]

This may be wrong of me, but whenever I see "middle-eastern" and "student" I always think "terrorist suspect".

Same here.

[eureka!]

Chilling. Soft targets, especially with children, is in danger. Nothing is below the terrrorist scum....

[Calpernia]

This is in Maryland?

Maybe we should get this pinged to Maryland freepers. Pips, you live there; FTH, I know you are nearby. Anyone know a freeper with a MD Ping list?

[joesnuffy]

getting his degree in terrorism...
here on a work study program

[diamondjoe]

Yeah, the old "I'm just a tourist!" routine is going to be tough to pull off in this instance. I can't think of anything that the Saudis would hate more than knowing that young female Jews are getting a world-class education, and learning how to think for themselves.

[swarthyguy]

>>a rapist or a terrorist.

Or Kidnappers.

[spoiler2]

"whenever I see "middle-eastern" and "student" I always think "terrorist suspect".

Thankfully, so does the FBI!

[76834]

Sounds like it is getting about time to round up all of these boogers and either kick them out of the country or place them in interment camps for the duration of the war.

Not holding my breath for this to happen but if we get hit bad again, who knows?
Maybe the gooberment will finally grow a set of hairy ones....

[conserv13]

I'm a Maryland Freeper, in Baltimore + I know exactly where the school is. Baltimore area has a large Jewish population but not a lot of terror problems. The last big scare were the DC snipers, just that they had slept in a parking lot here scared people.

[Shermy]

About a year ago there was an interesting article, maybe posted here, from a magazine about the jewish school (youth club?) bombing in Argentina some years ago. Hezbollah, the Iranian regime's terror-wing for their foreign policy objectives did it - and it had nothing to do about kids half-way around the world from Iran. The article stated that it was a "message" to the Argentinian regime for it's reneging on a deal to transfer nuclear technology to Iran.

Targeting Jews was just enough obfuscation. I think Mylorie wrote about how Iraq trains terrorists, if caught, to lie and say they planned to target "Jewish neighborhoods." Such deflections hide the policy/revenge motives and effectively guide public media discussion away from true objectives.

I suspect these planned attacks are always laden with foreign policy/religious objectives hidden as "resistance."

[Calpernia]

Do you have a MD ping list? Maybe we should ping DC, VA, NY and NJ too. This threat hits my gut.

[diamondjoe]

"I suspect these planned attacks are always laden with foreign policy/religious objectives hidden as "resistance.""

Absolutely. The attacks may be carried out by idiot jihadists with a 2nd grade education (if that), but they are ultimately directed by guys who have the same objectives that tyrants have always had: more power, more power, more power.

[aculeus]

This reminds me of Peggy Noonan's report shortly after 9/11/01 of seeing a Middle Easterner video taping St Patrick's in NYC. She stared at the guy real hard and got a hard stare back. Scary.

[swarthyguy]

a Middle Easterner video taping St Patrick's in NYC

She was slightly hysterical at that time, I think.

Turned out to be a Sikh tourist.

[flutters]

PKM, Do you have a MD ping list?