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U.S. Alerts Schools About Terror Threat
Yahoo News ^ | 43 minutes ago | Ben Feller

Posted on 10/07/2004 10:14:24 AM PDT by crushelits

WASHINGTON - The Education Department has advised school leaders nationwide to watch for people spying on their buildings or buses to help detect any possibility of terrorism like the deadly school siege in Russia.

The warning follows an analysis by the FBI (news - web sites) and the Homeland Security Department of the siege that killed nearly 340 people, many of them students, in the city of Beslan last month.

"The horror of this attack may have created significant anxiety in our own country among parents, students, faculty staff and other community members," Deputy Education Secretary Eugene Hickok said in a letter to schools and education groups.

The safety advice is based on lessons learned from the Russia incident. But there is "no specific information indicating that there is a terrorist threat to any schools or universities in the United States," Hickok said.

Federal law enforcement officials also have encouraged local police to stay in contact with school officials and have encouraged reporting of suspicious activities, the letter says.

In particular, schools were told to watch for activities that may be legitimate on their own — but may suggest a heightened terrorist threat if many of them occur.

Among those activities:

_ Interest in obtaining site plans for schools, bus routes and attendance lists;

_ Prolonged "static surveillance" by people disguised as panhandlers, shoe shiners, newspaper or flower vendors or street sweepers not previously seen in the area;

_ Observations of security drills;

_ People staring at or quickly looking away from employees or vehicles as they enter or leave parking areas;

_ Foot surveillance of campuses involving individuals working together.

The effort is the latest by the Education Department and other federal agencies to encourage school officials to maintain and practice a plan for responding to emergencies.

After the terrorist takeover of the Russian school, President Bush (news - web sites) asked his top advisers to review their strategies for dealing with hostage situations, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has said.

The federal government is advising schools to take many steps to improve the security of their buildings. Those include installing locks for all doors and windows, having a single entry point into buildings and ensuring they can reach school bus drivers in an emergency.

The Education Department sent its letter by e-mail Wednesday to school police, state school officers, school boards, groups representing principals and many other organizations.

The Homeland Security Department also sent a bulletin Wednesday to federal, state and local emergency officials to provide fresh guidance based on the review of the school siege in Russia.


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To: BearCub
Huh? It should have been done?

Oh - the warning. Gotcha. Sorry.

81 posted on 10/07/2004 11:36:15 AM PDT by BearCub
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To: nw_arizona_granny

Our polls are in schools, also.

Thanks for the ping Gran. :)


82 posted on 10/07/2004 11:39:37 AM PDT by Letitring
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To: crushelits

That crap happens over here and it will Muslim Season in Texas....No limit..Stuffed and mounted at no expense.


83 posted on 10/07/2004 11:40:59 AM PDT by Delbert
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To: traumer

Yeah, before we can do any of these things, we need the world to know and understand and approve that this is okay and in no way infringing on the rights of people that are not citizens of the US.


84 posted on 10/07/2004 11:42:58 AM PDT by rave123
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To: BearCub
To: Walkin Man
San Diego law enforcement officials said there was no indication of
any terrorist plot against schools in San Diego or elsewhere in the
country. They did not publicly release the information because there
appeared to be no threat.

I have an idea: Since you are a bunch of civil service nitwits, why
dontcha just release the information and let the informed among us
decide exactly what we think the threat is.



Agree with your statement.

But you have missed a fine point.

San Diego is in California.

Many in California are going to vote for kerry, due to the fact that there is no war on terror.

If we would only show more love to the world, they would not hate us.

After all, there haven't been any further attacks in the U.S., since 9-11........

This is what I hear on the radio, night after night. I am able to listen to Calif. on the radio and I never cease to be amazed at the callers with the above opinions.

These statements come directly from the democrats and the communist sites, they are the talking points of the day.

I thought Rush was joking about the "talking points" bulletins, but when I hear the same statements from all over the country, word for word, then I began to believe him.

Note, the above statements are quotes and not in agreement with my thinking.

I lived in San Diego from about 1940 to 1969.
85 posted on 10/07/2004 11:43:12 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (On this day your Prayers are needed!!!!!!!)
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To: All
ON THE NET...


JIHAD WATCH.org (SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE): "SAN DIEGO SCHOOL CRISIS PLAN IS FOUND ON DISK IN IRAQ" (October 1, 2004) (Read More...)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "WAS THE BESLAN MASSACRE TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN MARYLAND?" (September 12, 2004) (Read More...)

CNS NEWS.com: TERROR ATTACK ON RUSSIAN SCHOOL SEEN AS 'REMINDER' FOR AMERICANS" by Susan Jones (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The attack on a Russian school should remind Americans that the world is engaged in a campaign that pits barbarism against civilization, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Wednesday.") (September 1, 2004) (Read More...)
CNS NEWS.com: "TERRORIST 'PROBING ATTACKS' SAID TO BE HAPPENING NATIONWIDE" by Scott Wheeler and Heather Wier (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Another videotaping incident involved a Jewish girls' school near Baltimore, Md., last October. The Baltimore Jewish Times reported that outside the Bais Yaakov School for Girls, "a man described as Middle Eastern in physical appearance was observed videotaping the school. "A parent chased the man's car, wrote down the license plate and informed the FBI, whose agents later questioned the man," the newspaper reported. The man was not on any terrorist watch lists and no arrests were made in connection with that incident.") (August 9, 2004) (Read More...)

86 posted on 10/07/2004 11:45:11 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: crushelits; Happy2BMe; devolve; PhilDragoo
"U.S. Alerts Schools About Terror Threat"

bump!


87 posted on 10/07/2004 11:46:48 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (The GOP throw their trash out. The DemocRATS worship theirs.)
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To: BearCub

Ok, thought i was one of them??:) what i mean , i think a hit on anywhere USA, a school, a mall, a movie theater would have a bigger mental effect with more people then the twin towers 9/11 as far as being terrorized..


88 posted on 10/07/2004 11:47:53 AM PDT by rang1995
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To: nw_arizona_granny
You do know how to scare someone......

Polling places in schools. Here also.

Scared myself this time too.

The majority of polling places here are in schools, churches, libraries, fire departments and VFW halls.

89 posted on 10/07/2004 11:50:29 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: crushelits

I thought F'ing Kerry told us terrorism wasn't a threat.


90 posted on 10/07/2004 11:51:42 AM PDT by wjcsux (Don't be a girly man! Vote Republican!)
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To: tscislaw

Where my mom works (an elementary school), they have locked all the doors, and only buzz in people who the admins know or who can prove they are parents/guardians of a child enrolled in the school.

They did this over the past summer, so it is fairly new.


91 posted on 10/07/2004 11:56:28 AM PDT by Betis70
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To: Squantos; Blzbba; Travis McGee; Jeff Head; Eaker

We home school and the primary teacher, Mrs SLB, is a fairly decent shot as are all of the past and current students.


92 posted on 10/07/2004 11:56:49 AM PDT by SLB ("We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us." C. S. Lewis)
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To: kendu
Hell to the UN! Hey Mr. Annan what exactly is your job there? Your people are being chased away and killed by the same people who took Egypt - show some responsibility for Mother Africa and her children who started it all. I prefer all the UN dead weights die who sports luxury than those poor Africans who never seen a single day of joy from birth to death.

Jesus Christ , Muhammad and Saint Mary were Black?
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Most of the Church Fathers and Biblical Characters like St. Augustine, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jesus Christ and his mother Mary were black.
Several Prominent Greeks like Pythagoras studied in ancient Egypt under black priests/professors.
Blacks constructed the pyramids and megalithic remains like Stonehenge. . Blacks have fought and died in all of America’s wars.
The Black Moors ruled parts of Europe for close to 800 years and their efforts helped usher Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance.
Some of the world’s most famous individuals like Beethoven, Haydn, Alexander Pushkin and Alexandre Dumas had black roots.


The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
by Cheikh Anta Diop - The man who changed history in 1974 at UNESCO.
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From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews
by Rudolph R. Windsor 
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Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D. 
by Chancellor Williams
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Stolen Legacy
by George G. M. James 
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They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America 
(also see Africans presence in early Europe, America and Asia.) 
by Ivan Van Sertima 
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African Origins of Major "Western Religions"
by Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan 
ISBN: 0933121296

Islamism, worse than communism!

 


93 posted on 10/07/2004 12:01:37 PM PDT by Vigelante
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To: Yaelle
And, thereby, Vox Day has his day.

94 posted on 10/07/2004 12:05:06 PM PDT by AnnaZ
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To: crushelits

This is a start. Though more needs to be done to make the students aware of their surroundings.


95 posted on 10/07/2004 12:07:12 PM PDT by yonif ("So perish all Thine enemies, O the Lord" - Judges 5:31)
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To: tscislaw
I was told that the reason our schools here don't have armed security is that "we want the children to feel safe"....huh???

In an earlier thread, it was stated the Israelis once had this problem back in the '80s with Palestinian terrorists attacking their schools and killing schoolchildren. They solved it by arming teachers and having armed volunteer parents and grandparents patrol the school and school grounds of their public schools. Ever since, there have been no attacks on Israeli public schools. The terrorists headed to softer targets.

Note, they didn't put a few more uniformed police in the hallways or beef up their SWAT Teams (who will show up well after the fact).

We won't even consider that in today's political climate. We are going to have to lose thousands of school children in a massive, coordinated attack before our socialist pantywaists educrats would be forced into such measures by parental lynch mobs. So, until then, they will hide their coiffured heads under their pillows and pretend there is "no problem" - just because they wish it that way and have the power to poo-poo it,... just like in this article from San Diego.

Political Correctness reigns in the USA and will until something much more terrible than 9/11 happens. Incredible. Our betters would rather have dead kids in our schools than armed citizens preventing it!

96 posted on 10/07/2004 12:07:36 PM PDT by Gritty ("We have the right to kill 4 million Americans,2 million of them children"-Suleiman Gheith, al Qaeda)
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To: nw_arizona_granny
48 million doses of flu vaccine, are not dumped for "no" reason, the late news on the radio, was still saying "no known reason" for stopping the shipment of vaccine.

I read that the vaccine may have been contaminated. Chiron had a previous episode where a vaccine was contaminated with mad cow.

97 posted on 10/07/2004 12:09:10 PM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: El Gato

Thank God im not calling the shots.


98 posted on 10/07/2004 12:15:39 PM PDT by samadams2000 ("Did they get you to trade, your heroes for ghosts")
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To: appalachian_dweller

May I be added to the Threat Matrix ping list?


99 posted on 10/07/2004 12:16:39 PM PDT by Marie (~shhhhh...~ The liberals are sleeping....)
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To: rang1995
Ok, thought i was one of them??:) what i mean , i think a hit on anywhere USA, a school, a mall, a movie theater would have a bigger mental effect with more people then the twin towers 9/11 as far as being terrorized..

Yeah, I misunderstood your post at first. Oh I agree - Israel-style terrorism would have everyone in a panic. I'm really surprised it hasn't happened here.

100 posted on 10/07/2004 12:20:30 PM PDT by BearCub
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