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Saudi Men Who Rode School Bus Arrested (Tampa, FL)
Tampa Bay Online ^ | May 20, 2006 | Keith Morelli

Posted on 05/20/2006 3:52:09 PM PDT by STARWISE

Two Saudi men were arrested Friday after they boarded a school bus and rode to Wharton High School in New Tampa.

Students on the bus became alarmed, as did the bus driver, who called ahead. Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies met the bus at the school and detained the men. No one was injured and nothing out of line occurred on the bus, deputies said.

Mana Saleh Almanajam, 23, who lives in Apt. 302 in The Point apartments, and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, 20 Monticello Gardens, Apt. 304-A, each were charged with trespassing on school property. Both remained in Orient Road Jail on Friday evening. Bail for each was set at $250.

"Both defendants gave several versions of the reason they took a school bus to a high school," said Hillsborough County sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway.

"They said they wanted to go to Wharton to look around, and then they said they wanted to go there to have some fun, and then they said they wanted to enroll in the English classes there," Callaway said.

"We're not sure if this was a situation of them just being new to this country, or if they were confused or what it was," Callaway said. "We were unsure as to exactly what the final reason was, but it did cause great concern for the students on the bus and for us. One of the guys was wearing shorts with a black trench coat."

While on the bus, the men laughed and spoke in Arabic, Callaway said.

(Excerpt) Read more at tbo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida; War on Terror
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To: STARWISE

Thanks Mod!


121 posted on 05/20/2006 5:25:40 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: All
Here they are:


122 posted on 05/20/2006 5:27:01 PM PDT by debg
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To: Dallas59

thank you -- you are a genleman.


123 posted on 05/20/2006 5:28:59 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Let's Go Yan-Kees!)
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To: pollyannaish

Of Course not all of the CIA is working against the president, but enough of them are to be dangerous to our national security.

That statement was a little fascitious, but not altogether untrue.

I believe that the President when he was elected took it for granted that whoever was working at State and CIA would automatically try to aid the country and its President. After all thats the way it should be. Unfortunately thats no longer the way it is.

Much like the Democrat party, they started working against the President the day after he was elected. He never had a chance.


124 posted on 05/20/2006 5:30:47 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: pollyannaish

K.


125 posted on 05/20/2006 5:31:02 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Let's Go Yan-Kees!)
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To: debg

Al Queda's dumb and dumberer.

send them back now.

126 posted on 05/20/2006 5:32:45 PM PDT by usmcobra (Marines out of uniform might as well be nude, since they can no longer be recognized as Marines.)
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To: Dallas59

You're welcome.


127 posted on 05/20/2006 5:34:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: FormerACLUmember

Please do not post that again. Thanks.


128 posted on 05/20/2006 5:35:29 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: sgtbono2002
We agree.

Except for one thing. Those working against the President ARE the Democrat party—they just play State and CIA for the cameras.

I think 9/11 took away a certain innocence in this country. Not that people wanted to do us harm, because we knew that. It took away our belief that when push came to shove, we all are Americans who are willing to fight for this country. What we discovered is there are an awful lot of people out there that don't want to fight for this country if the other team might get an advantage.

That, imo, is the saddest part of this whole entire mess.

129 posted on 05/20/2006 5:37:07 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: the invisib1e hand

; ). No problem.


130 posted on 05/20/2006 5:37:31 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: STARWISE

Deport the bass turds.


131 posted on 05/20/2006 5:38:55 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc. 10:2)
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To: STARWISE

Thanks for posting. BTTT!


132 posted on 05/20/2006 5:41:30 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: STARWISE

Maybe they wanted to see how easy it would be to board a school bus for a future attack?


133 posted on 05/20/2006 5:43:38 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (Native Texan)
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To: Dustbunny
They knew what they were doing, scaring terrorizing the kids and the driver.

Darn right they knew. And the LE searched their apartments and found nothing of concern? They expected the men to leave incriminating stuff there knowing they would most likely be arrested while they ran their little test for someone else?

These were high school kids. Take them to see United 93.

134 posted on 05/20/2006 5:44:13 PM PDT by daybreakcoming (If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. A. Lincoln)
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To: usmcobra

Nice pictures. Time to feed the alligators...


135 posted on 05/20/2006 5:44:17 PM PDT by Publius
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To: JustDoItAlways

Our government is being schizophrenic and politcally correct. We are at war with Muslim countries, and Muslim terrorists continue to attack the West. Am I dense or shouldn't we not let any Muslims into this country? Better yet, start getting rid of some and put the rest of the so-called "good" Muslims on alert. During the Cold War, did we let Russians or satellite communist country citizens into the U.S.? Or during WWII, did we let Japanese or German Nationals waltz in? I still can't believe this crap continues unabated. I don't care what kind of background check the Feds do on these wonderful, new Middle East immigrants to our country, in the long-run, it will be nothing but trouble. Guaranteed. Read their history. The only Middle Eastern people that used to emigrate to this country were Christians that were fleeing persecution by the so-called "religion of peace" practitioners. I don't know what the he$% is going on with the Feds, but I see more and more of these types on the streets of Chicago, and it's making my skin crawl. Really.


136 posted on 05/20/2006 5:44:50 PM PDT by john drake (roman military maxim: "oderint dum metuant, i.e., let them hate, as long as they fear")
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To: STARWISE; All

After reading this article and this thread I must say that I am filled with chills.

I am disturbed by the 250 dollar bail set for these folks.

I am even more disturbed that the driver allowed them onto the bus in the first place.

My next door neighbor drives a school bus so I decided to print this out for him to take back to the shop. He found it most interesting.

He told me that, as drivers, they are told NEVER EVER to let ANYONE onto the bus that is not supposed to be a rider. He told me that even parents are not allowed onto the bus and that when someone wishes to talk to them they are supposed to instruct those people to come around to the busdriver's window to go forward with their desired conversation.

There is no other explanation that stands up to common sense reasoning that this was nothing but a test run to see what reaction would be gained from this out of the blue action.

I pose to everyone that who reads or hears about this to print it out and take it to your busdrivers or your school or some other party that can make sure every school district in the country is made aware of this incident.

Another attack IS coming and to think our kids are off limits is to forget what happened on 9 11 and even what happened in Beslan. Action is for us to take and if this doesn't draw action I guess I just do not know what does.


137 posted on 05/20/2006 5:51:05 PM PDT by BlueStateDepression
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To: rawcatslyentist

Would this be why Mousarri said President Bush will release him? If you catch my drift......


138 posted on 05/20/2006 5:52:35 PM PDT by daybreakcoming (If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. A. Lincoln)
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To: Joe 6-pack
CAIR funnels money and political support to virtually all islamic terrorist organizations on a proportiional basis.

Proportional to the number of people they kill or to the number of fawning mentions they get in the liberal press?
139 posted on 05/20/2006 5:53:57 PM PDT by billybudd
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To: Judith Anne

I still believe that lady to this day also. It never did smell right and I have thought once or twice about sending her a note to tell her so.


140 posted on 05/20/2006 5:56:02 PM PDT by daybreakcoming (If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. A. Lincoln)
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