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FBI: Extremists Signing Up to Be School Bus Drivers
FoxNews.com ^ | Friday, March 16, 2007 | Associated Press

Posted on 03/16/2007 11:16:41 AM PDT by weef

WASHINGTON — Members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said "parents and children have nothing to fear."

Asked about the alert notice, the FBI's Rich Kolko said "there are no threats, no plots and no history leading us to believe there is any reason for concern," although law enforcement agencies around the country were asked to watch out for kids' safety.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beslan; bus; dejavu; dhs; gwot; islam; muhammadsminions; safernow; schoolbus; terrorists; usmuslimterror; wot
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To: weef
Paging Inspector "Dirty Harry" Callahan.


61 posted on 03/16/2007 12:01:40 PM PDT by anymouse
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To: Judith Anne
Good. I would like to see a bunch of Muslim terrorists get her.. One good thing about that pig is that I can turn her off. And I do every time I see her on a show I switch her OFF. I think shes one of the biggest morons on tv.
62 posted on 03/16/2007 12:01:47 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: weef
[... the FBI's Rich Kolko said "there are no threats, no plots and no history leading us to believe there is any reason for concern," although law enforcement agencies around the country were asked to watch out for kids' safety. ..]

Duuuugh.. WHY?.. the Malls and Schools are MORE at risk?..

63 posted on 03/16/2007 12:04:05 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole)
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To: weef
Extremists Signing Up to Be School Bus Drivers

What does that mean? You don't "sign up" to be a bus driver. You have to find a company that is hiring them, apply, go through the application process, and get hired. That is not signing up. And what are extremists? I tend to associate that description with terrorists but is that what they mean? In my opinion this is a very messy article. In some circles smokers, vegetarians, and Baptists are extremists. Perhaps the article should be School Bus Companies Are Hiring People With Criminal Records (or on Homeland Security's bad people list).
64 posted on 03/16/2007 12:04:22 PM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: weef
...there are no threats, no plots and no history leading us to believe there is any reason for concern

FBI = Famous But Incompetent
65 posted on 03/16/2007 12:04:44 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (I used 2 think people were factually ignorant but talking 2 liberals I realize people R just stupid.)
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To: pandoraou812

I've never actually seen the show.

BTW, the last paragraph in the article is chilling.

This is a powder keg, imho.


66 posted on 03/16/2007 12:05:30 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: concerned about politics
Did they change the meaning of the word "extremist" now, too? Could some one please tell me what the new and improved PC definition is?

In this context, it's an intelligence/law enforcement term for "potential terrorist" or "terrorist supporter". An extremist group may have al-Qa'ida like philosophy or links, but hasn't actually don't anything yet. As an example, the 19 hijackers were extremists, right up until they siezed the planes. Then they became terrorists.

Also, "Extremist" is almost always shorthand for "Sunni extremist", unless otherwise specified. The term would not be used to describe a neo-Nazi group, for instance. It's become a very specific euphamism for terrorism.

67 posted on 03/16/2007 12:05:35 PM PDT by Steel Wolf (If every Republican is a RINO, then no Republican is a RINO.)
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To: HardStarboard

BESLAN! you FBI fools.

+1


68 posted on 03/16/2007 12:05:57 PM PDT by ibbryn (this tag intentionally left blank)
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To: AdmSmith; TexKat; Dog; Coop; jeffers; nuconvert; Arizona Carolyn; BurbankKarl; SE Mom; ...

Ping.


69 posted on 03/16/2007 12:06:23 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: Pyro7480

"What kind of extremists? The fact they don't say leads me to believe it's Mohammedan "extremists.""

In the current enviornment Christians could be the Extremists. Our daughters are picked up by drivers who go to the local Bible college. (Atheists everywhere are afraid!)


70 posted on 03/16/2007 12:09:20 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: A knight without armor

Shame on you, asking for clarity and facts, rather than riding off madly in all directions on the wildest horse you can find.... You're off the thread, bucko.


71 posted on 03/16/2007 12:11:23 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: weef
Man, they'll let anybody be a school bus driver.

I've never met anyone crazier than my 1st grade and 5th grade bus drivers.

Crazier than postal employees.

Islamists would probably be an improvement right up until the mass slaughter.

72 posted on 03/16/2007 12:12:59 PM PDT by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Flew into LA a few times recently and have decided the rental car shuttle drivers are muslim. Easy way into the airport.


73 posted on 03/16/2007 12:13:00 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
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To: Judith Anne

I am on here in the morning so I have no time or interest in that show...However I have seen the clips posted here. I also have no use for women who watch it. I have bus stop mom's who rave about her. Its always quite interesting when I have heard enough and tell them how things really are. I have one good friend who tells me please don't tell me how in danger our kids are. That was over the plots to hit the schools in NJ where I live. I guess many people choose denial. Its so much easier on their pea brains. Shaking my head here again...~P~


74 posted on 03/16/2007 12:13:29 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: weef

Good post and comment.

This is very bad news.


75 posted on 03/16/2007 12:14:53 PM PDT by aculeus (Ceci n'est pas une tagline.)
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To: weef
One counterterror official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said it was likely that the foreigners investigated were merely employed as bus drivers, and did not intend to use them as part of any terror plot.

I guess he had his fingers crossed while he said that. Are these people real? Do they really think we are that stupid?

76 posted on 03/16/2007 12:15:10 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: CJ Wolf
>>> forms the public schools send home that ask you which govt. building and job your parents work in <<<

Wonder if Valerie Plame has a daughter that filled in: "my Mommy works at Langley, she's a covert spy for the CIA"!

The triviality of the distractions that the Democrats invent is exceeded only by the magnitude of the publicity extracted!

77 posted on 03/16/2007 12:16:30 PM PDT by HardStarboard (The Democrats are more afraid of American Victory than Defeat!)
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To: alloysteel
Shouldn't there be alarm bells going off SOMEWHERE?

The only alarm bells will be with the ACLU types. They'll say "if someone knows these people are extremists then we have violated their privacy in finding this out".

78 posted on 03/16/2007 12:17:50 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: weef
The bulletin.... was sent Friday as part of what officials said was a routine FBI and Homeland Security Department advisory to local law enforcement.

So are advisories routinely issued in the absence of threat?

How completely stupid do they think we are?

Never mind....

79 posted on 03/16/2007 12:18:01 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: anymouse
Best Clint scene ever. I love the way he just stands there waiting and Scorpio freaks out.
80 posted on 03/16/2007 12:19:42 PM PDT by JacksonCalhoun (CT native in exile in NC - we have moonbats here in Dixie, too)
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