Posted on 09/11/2004 12:09:10 AM PDT by nwctwx
*****Important alert*****
School officials told to be on lookout for spying
WASHINGTON - The Education Department has alerted school leaders nationwide to watch for people spying on their buildings as a possible sign of a terrorist threat.
(snip)
In particular, schools have been told to watch for activities that may be legitimate on their own — but may suggest a heightened terrorist threat if there are many of them.
Among those activities:
*Interest in obtaining site plans for schools, bus routes and attendance lists.
*Prolonged “static surveillance” by people disguised as panhandlers, shoe shiners, newspaper or flower vendors or street sweepers not previously seen in the area.
*Observations of security drills.
People staring at or quickly looking away from employees or vehicles as they enter or leave parking areas.
*Foot surveillance of campuses involving individuals working together. (snip)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6199027/
Whoa. I don't like this alert AT ALL.
This alert has flown around the CONUS in about 10 minutes flat. Check this out:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V7812.AP-Schools-Warning.html&filter=0
Gee, and even though the disaster plans for the San Diego Unified school district were found on a terrorists computer in Iraq, the SD police just continue to say "nothing to worry your pretty little heads about".
Outraged in SD.
I hear you.
USAtoday has a report out (that I can't access again for some weird reason).
Main point is MANY polling places on election day are in SCHOOLS.
Picturing the suicide bomber hitting a school/polling place.
I'll keep trying to find the article.
Excellent point.
Main voting places that a terrorist may strike would be in Florida. They would have to take out many schools...just thoses in "close race" states, ie FL, Penn, etc.
correction:
They would NOT have to take out many schools...
Found the article:
Election warning causes anxiety
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-10-06-election-warning_x.htm
(snip)• In Tippecanoe County, Ind., chief election official Linda Phillips says she will move an undisclosed number of the county's 81 polling places out of elementary schools to "less vulnerable" sites. She acknowledges that Lafayette, Ind., "may not appear on any terrorist's road map," but she says that "it occurred to me that terrorists could get a double hit if they wanted to strike the election by taking out a school." (snip)
>>Main point is MANY polling places on election day are in SCHOOLS. <<
That fact had totally skipped my mind. Our polling place is at a private home in the garage so I had forgotten that in other areas I have lived in that the polling places were in schools!
Oh man, let's pray that people are alert and on their toes between now and election day to keep these schools and polling places safe.
I also pray that no one has been able to penetrate these places earlier. Geesh, can you imagine how many bomb sniffing dogs it would take to clear each polling place???
Today marks the 3-year annaversary of when the first American bombs began dropping on the Taliban and AQ in Afganistan. This saturday Afganistan will hold its first free and open elections ever.
Lafayette is ringing a bell for me.
Isn't that where the ME photographer lived or stayed who took a bunch of the pictures used on twexus, or it might have been the pictures that we were all looking at of the lighthouse off the east coast where the unidentified ME's were spotted in a small boat. Dang it! I wish my mind wasn't so fogged with meds!!!!!
But there was something about Lafayette lately that was discussed. Besides the photographer, I THINK that a ME student went missing from there or something.
Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1238008/posts
"U.S. Alerts Schools About Terror Threat"
Yahoo News ^ | 43 minutes ago | Ben Feller
Posted on 10/07/2004 10:14:24 AM PDT by crushelits
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
http://www.dhs.gov
Ditto that DC...get well pronto.
It skipped my mind too and my polling place is in a church/school. D'oh.
Not sure about Lafayette, but the lighthouse incidents were in Rhode Island. Pomham Lighthouse.
I had to google that one. Thanks for the history lesson! Hope you're feeling better too.
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