Innocent Targets - When Terrorism Comes to School

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Observations from the Research

In our research we found that incidents of school terrorism follow the trend set by terrorism in general - roughly 40% of attacks focus on transportation systems as targets. As evidenced by the attacks on September 11th, 2001 in the United States, March 11th 2004 in Madrid, Spain, and July 7th 2005 in London, England, public transportation is a favored target for terrorists. While transportation systems do not make up a majority of attacks, they do account for a large portion of them, and thusly we should be prepared for such attacks on our school transportation systems in the United States. The School Transporation News website security page has a large collection of information involving school buses and terrorism.

The Timeline

March 18, 1968 - Fatah terrorists in Israel set a land mine which later blew up a school bus, killing two children and injuring 28 others.

May 8, 1970 - Palestinian terrorists attacked an Israeli School bus killing nine children and three adults. Nineteen others were also crippled for life. The terrorists apparently knew the bus schedule and planned their attack based on this knowledge.

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Related story: Judge Revokes Bail For Saudi Bus Riders-(update on Saudies raiding a School Bus)

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This just in from the blogosphere:

Two Saudis Board Schoolbus, Kos Kidz Laff

A disquieting story from Tampa, Florida, where two Saudis acting very strangely boarded a schoolbus and (thankfully) were arrested: Saudi Men Who Rode School Bus Arrested. Given that the scheming liars who run Saudi Arabia continue to indoctrinate young Saudis with jihad propaganda and hatred, and given the horrible Beslan school massacre in our recent past, it’s reassuring that we aren’t yet so hobbled by political correctness that incidents like this are treated as insignificant by the police.LGF reader ferris points out that actor James Woods witnessed an Islamic terrorism dry run in August 2001.  link: 400 comments

Remember when they found US school blueprints on CDs in Iraq?

US School Plans Found on Disk in Iraq

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Taqiyyotomist  5/21/2006 06:58PM PDT

 

Someone named 'somthingaboutislam' posted this at JihadWatch, I couldn't have said it better, so I'll relay:

Robert, why do you care what the Left says? The Left is the enemy. Of course they are going to spin this their way. They don't want anybody warning the world abou the muslim menace, because the muslims are their agents in their attempt to destroy Judeo-Christian Western society.

Notice how the Left, like the daily kos, never has a bad word to say about terrorists, muslims, islam, genital mutiliation, or anything else associated with the enemey. Nothing. They never poke fun at terrorists, never talk bad about terrorists, never demean or disparage terrorists. Never. Not once.

The Left is more the enemy that all the jihadists combined, Robert. Without the Left, the islamic threat could not be a threat. Only the Left holds it together, keeps it alive, defends it, and sustains it. Only the Left provides lawyers for it. Only the Left provides protests for it. They never protest against it.

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blackrabbit  5/21/2006 07:29PM PDT

 

After the Beslan massacre, I told several of my friends that a school bus filled with American children would be a perfect hostage vehicle/situation for propaganda-savvy terrorists. The media imagery alone would be priceless, with terrified children and parents, seemingly paralyzed first-responders, and the media engaged in an inevitable orgy of self-promotion.

I cannot be the only person to have thought of this, but let's hope those that are evaluating this as a warning take it very seriously.

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Alouette  5/21/2006 08:23PM PDT

 

I just finished reading Prayers For the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno, a book that was recommended at this site.

Has anyone else read it? It's the 1984 for our times.

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I think not only schools could be targets for terrorists but also hospitals. However, the jihadists need to learn from history. As a nation the US is slow to act in anger, but as Admirable Yamamoto recognized after the attack on Pearl Harbor the US is a sleeping giant that if awakened will bring a terrible wrath. The events of 9-11 were close to this tipping point however news photos of innocent children or hospital patients murdered by terorists in an attack on US soil would galvanize our nation into extermination campaign for any and all such terrorists.