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NOt long after Beslan, American troops found tapes in Afghanistan - they had attacked and almost captured some high value targets - who, in escaping, left some things behind. I forget just how it went - it was downplayed in the press - but they had plans for hitting some schools here - very detailed - and they captured one guy with notes in his pockets that had the schematics of some of our schools with schedules - including bus schedules - (this guy was here - and in Florida, soon after, there were 2 or 3 very eastern looking men who walked onto a school bus and the driver had a time getting them to leave (test run?)

We covered these incidents on FR - I forget the year - but within a year after Beslan, which was Sept 2004.

Anyone who has the courage can see the videos of that horrific week - just GOOGLE.(I can't look at those videos again - those poor, dear children.)

Myself, I was sickened by the reaction of Freepers to the tragedy in Russia - indeed, most of America. Few could seem to put their "Russia Vitriol" on the shelf even to express sympathy.

We were treated better by Russia after 9-11.

That said, I worry why these exercises now - so many years after the plans were found? Is it that there are renewed threats or is this an excuse to get law enforcement some training in preparation to 'control' the people recently named as 'terrorists' and a threat to our security - the Tea Party folk - the Americans that obymmer alluded - ad infinitum - to in his college speech today - the ones that he is opining will cause someone(s) to act violently? (What the content of his speech had to do with congratulating a graduating class and encouraging them in their road ahead, is a mystery. NOT. He used THEIR DAY as just another excuse to spew his agenda - which increasingl seems to be to set the Tea Party people up for something. Alarming. He has not one shread of recognition that, not only do most Americans disagree with his agenda but that they have a RIGHT to in, as he kept repeating, a "democracy." I wonder if he wasn't hoping to encourage someone to bring about that act of violence for him...

We may well soon see a terror act that will 'force' the gov't to crack down -

and we may never be sure who was really behind it...anymore than we are likely to ever learn just what brought the oil rig down.