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HELLO!

Talk about a bright red flag!!!


325 posted on 05/22/2006 4:02:09 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: OXENinFLA
Talk about a bright red flag!!!

Thanks for the ping.  I need to read more because I am having trouble understanding what their agenda was!

326 posted on 05/22/2006 4:40:31 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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Saudi men arrested for riding on school bus, court date set for next week
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=31615
By:
Valerie BoeyTampa, Florida - According to investigators when Mana Saleh Almanajam and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran got on the bus at Fletcher and 42nd Street students became suspicious.


J.D. Callaway, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office
“They were speaking in Arabic, they were making funny sounds, it was very unusual. It was alarming for the students on the bus.”
A school district spokesperson says bus drivers normally don’t allow strangers on a bus.


Steve Hegarty, Hillsborough County School District
“The bus driver is a regular bus driver but filling in on someone else’s route.”
However the bus driver did the right thing by calling authroites. Deputies arrested the men as soon as the bus arrived to Wharton High School.


J.D. Callaway, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office
“One was dressed in a black trench coat it's 80-degrees out, their attire raised questions, their language raised questions, their evasiveness raise questions with the students that raised questions with us.”
Investigators say the men kept giving them conflicting information. Even telling them they were from Morocco instead of Saudi Arabia.

J.D. Callaway, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office
“One of their explanations to us was that they wouldn't say they were from Saudi Arabia cause they say if they tell people that, people become alarmed and somewhat fearful.”
The FBI, FDLE and immigration authorities searched their apartments, but found nothing suspicious. Alsidran’s neighbors say he fit right in.


Michael Sinclair, Alsidran’s Neighbor:
““I seen him around, not like personally. Hey what's up, he didn't look suspicious to me, average guy.” ”
Deputies determined the Muslim men are not a threat. They say this isn’t about racial profiling, it’s about keeping students safe.

J.D. Callaway, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office
“Anybody whose an adult, gets on a school bus with students is gonna have to answer questions to law enforcement.”
Both men were charged with trespassing and taken to the Hillsborough County Jail. Deputies say the men are enrolled at the English Language Institute at the University of South Florida. But they thought they could find easier classes at Wharton High. It’s part of their immigration requirements, since they arrived to the U-S six months ago.

Valerie Boey, Tampa Bay's 10


328 posted on 05/22/2006 6:04:18 AM PDT by Valin (Purple Fingers Rule!)
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Am I wrong in suspecting that the ACLU will soon be claiming that these guys' rights to ride a school bus were violated? Profiling and all that......

Whether these men were really stuck on stupid or as I believe, probing another of our weak security areas, we cannot let this story die until it is known in every corner of our land. The terrorists think nothing of blowing apart Muslim children - would they think twice about infidels' children?

330 posted on 05/22/2006 6:19:07 AM PDT by daybreakcoming (If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. A. Lincoln)
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Thanks OXEN....

I heard about this yesterday on Fox News...they even showed pictures of the men in front of court...BUT, I only saw it ONCE!!!

This should have been one of their incessant "news alerts"...all day long, IMHO>
332 posted on 05/22/2006 8:23:58 AM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: OXENinFLA
HELLO!

Talk about a bright red flag!!!


Well, they just wanted to take easier English classes at the high school...
337 posted on 05/22/2006 6:20:23 PM PDT by firewalk
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