[Preachers Kid]

Well, wasn't the WTC event rather "random" at the time?

[mewzilla]

Well, that was certainly helpful on the DOT's part. That guy doesn't know jack. Why doesn't he just say so and tell us he'll get back to us when he knows something. Sheesh. Frankly, this kind of idiocy does NOT make me feel any better.

[DaughterofEve]

As a point of interest, nothing is on Drudge yet at all about this entire story.

[smiley]

Yes, this event was so random that the FBI continues to investigate as we "speak".

[mrustow]

Latest update: six dead. The killer, who had slashed the driver's throat, is still alive. He holds a Croatian identity card ("not a passport"). But they're still saying, "It wasn't terrorist-related.")

[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

This from Reuters who won't even call a "terrorist" a "terrorist."

[Star Traveler]

Greyhound Lines suspended bus services across the United States after at least three people were killed in a crash that television reports attributed to a passenger attack on the bus driver.

Isn't this an OVER-REACTION -- for a single-bus-event, somewhere in the country. I can't imagine Greyhound Bus Lines suspending all bus service across the country -- because of something like this.

If they did that, then either they're idiots -- or -- there is something more here that the public is not being told. So, what is it?

[meyer]

It probably is random in the vein that the perpetrator wasn't part of this "organized" jihad. My belief is that it is a sympathizer; one of those who believe that the US is the root of all the world's problems.

I also believe that this guy is quite the amateur. I think he wanted to hijack the bus and that is why he wanted the lady's seat directly behind the driver. Since she wouldn't give it up, he aborted his plan and just decided to cut the driver's throat instead. Apparently, nobody told him that the bus didn't have auto-pilot.

It gives me comfort that this happened relatively close to home, about halfway between Chattanooga and Nashville on a road I have occasion to travel. I'll be watching my mirror for the gray dog from now on.

[usconservative]

Grandma was *supposed* to take a Greyhound bus home next Tuesday morning. Now I'm driving her home.

She lives in Buffalo, I live outside of Chicago. Gonna be a long drive back and forth, but at least I know she'll get there safely.

[Norb2569]

IMHO I think this IS RELATED to September 11th, and the FBI is keeping this LOW KEY to avoid national panic.

Vigilance is the word of the day.

Believe your eyes and ears and keep the heat handy!

Semper Fi,
Norb

[tnvet]

If another terrorist controlled plane fell from 30000 ft and slammed into downtown new york, do you think that (with the state of air travel being what it is), we would be told the truth? Or would we be told that the plane had control problems beyond the pilots ability to prevent the "accident" and we should keep buying tickets.

Another such act would completely would destroy air travel.

Would the gov be completely honest with the public?

Are they being honest now?

[B Knotts]

Conspiracy BUMP

tinfoilhat list

[Pericles]

I wonder if this Croatian bus-jacker may not be an Albanian Muslim with a Croatian passport. Bus jackings are an Albanian passtime. From the BBC:

Greek police kill bus hijacker

The Greek authorities say an armed Albanian man who hijacked a bus has been killed. All the hostages were freed safely.

The hijacker was shot dead by police after being disarmed by one of his hostages, an off-duty conscript soldier, according to Greek Defence Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos.

The minister contradicted earlier police accounts, which said elite forces had burst into the bus and disarmed the hijacker, who had apparently been carrying hand grenades.

Earlier, the man had released two of his seven hostages, keeping the others on board the bus, which he had hijacked near the port of Thessaloniki.

Police had surrounded the vehicle and were negotiating with the man, who was said to have demanded money and a safe passage to Albania.

The hijacker took control of the bus on Wednesday and apparently tried to cross into Albania. But the vehicle was stopped on a country road about 10km east of the northern town of Florina.

Some 50 people were on board when it was seized, but most were later set free.

The hijacker threatened to kill the remaining hostages if the police tried to intervene.

It was the second time in less than two months that an Albanian citizen had hijacked a Greek public bus.

On the first occasion, the bus was eventually stormed by Albanian special police units. The hijacker and one of the nine hostages were killed in the cross-fire.

[caddie]

Throw all noncitizens out of the country.

Throw all muslims out of the country.

Close the borders.

Then start working on the citizen-traitors who let this all happen.

[D. Miles]

9;36 am...Coffee County TN near Manchester Driver alive in surgery at Manvhester hospital, six confirmed dead, 32 more people injured many taken to Vanderbuilt medical sent by Lifeflight. Suspected knifer holds Croatian papers. TBI, FBI, State patrol, Emergency management on the scene and at the hospitals. All this via Chanel 2 news Nashville. Buses still not operating.

[bluetoad]

Fox reported that the guy who did it was holding a Croatian passport.

[Flint]

Don't they get it? Terrorisium is baised on random acts. That is the point of it and why it is effective.

[luvzhottea]

Militants seeking independence for Croatia have struck inside the U.S. in the past. In December 1975 Croatian nationalists were suspected of planting a bomb in a luggage locker at La Guardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75. Less than a year later, Croats hijacked a TWA jet traveling from New York City to Chicago and eventually diverted it to Paris. As part of that operation, the group also planted a bomb at Grand Central Terminal, which killed a police officer who tried to defuse it. In June 1980 Croatian "freedom fighters" detonated a bomb inside the museum at the Statue of Liberty, but no one was injured. All told, Croats committed more than 20 acts of terror in the U.S. from 1976 through 1980.

Time Magazine March 8, 1993 Who Could Have Done It BY PRISCILLA PAINTON

[Joe Hadenuf]

"U.S. says bus crash apparently "random" event"

Bull Sh*t.

[eFudd]

So I guess the guy randomly picked up a blade and randomly started to wave it around and accidently hit the throat of the driver.

All the oncoming cars were randomly driving down the right side of the road.

Who ever wrote and released this item to the press probably randomly has a cogent thought.