Posted on 05/20/2006 3:52:09 PM PDT by STARWISE
Two Saudi men were arrested Friday after they boarded a school bus and rode to Wharton High School in New Tampa.
Students on the bus became alarmed, as did the bus driver, who called ahead. Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies met the bus at the school and detained the men. No one was injured and nothing out of line occurred on the bus, deputies said.
Mana Saleh Almanajam, 23, who lives in Apt. 302 in The Point apartments, and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, 20 Monticello Gardens, Apt. 304-A, each were charged with trespassing on school property. Both remained in Orient Road Jail on Friday evening. Bail for each was set at $250.
"Both defendants gave several versions of the reason they took a school bus to a high school," said Hillsborough County sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway.
"They said they wanted to go to Wharton to look around, and then they said they wanted to go there to have some fun, and then they said they wanted to enroll in the English classes there," Callaway said.
"We're not sure if this was a situation of them just being new to this country, or if they were confused or what it was," Callaway said. "We were unsure as to exactly what the final reason was, but it did cause great concern for the students on the bus and for us. One of the guys was wearing shorts with a black trench coat."
While on the bus, the men laughed and spoke in Arabic, Callaway said.
(Excerpt) Read more at tbo.com ...
>>It does seem unusual that they would see fit to mention that Mana Saleh Almanajam, 23, lives in Apt. 302 in The Point apartments, and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, 20, lives at Monticello Gardens, Apt. 304-A. Unusual indeed.<<
Its almost as if the paper is hoping they get visitors.
When a terrorist act on a school bus occurs in this nation, Ahmed Bedier, Tampa director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations should be one of the first ones executed in the terrorist plotting. The liberals in Florida will be the death of too many in that state or in the nation ... these bastards were scoping out a terrorist focal point, schools and school buses and how easy it will be to board school buses and enter schools for murderous actions.
Sorry, that doesn't pass the smell test. These perps spoke at least two languages and had traveled from SA around the world to settle in FLA. They have apratments and pay utilities. THESE were terrorist operatives. They belong in Gitmo until every shred of information is sweated out of them or chemically removed from their brains. DHS should have a list of every Saudi or other Arab and every Iranian in the US, their ages, pictures, and current activities. Sadly, the democrats and their liberal lickspittlists will scream that this is profiling ... and it is and it is exactly how you prevent Breslan days from happening.
Fox news just reported this. Good.
Just now mentioned and shown in court on FNC -- they are being held without bond for further investigation about their intentions. GOOD!
They are being watched and researched believe me
How would "peaceful" Muslim countries handle this if the situation were opposite?
Why did he even stop to pick them up?!
Driver was evidently picking up a number of students at one stop and they got on with them. She didn't stop just for them. However, why did she not tell them they could not board at the git-go? We don't have any shy busdrivers where I live.
Dang right. These animals are mocking us by showing how easily they can get to our kids, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that.
MM
Ya mean like the Johnny Jihad that almost blew up a bowl game in OK, THIS YEAR!!!!
Time to send allah the mooos back to hell aka sandy arabia!
There should be no doubt... people are whistling in the graveyard if they believe otherwise.
***1pm EDT update. Bail for the Saudis has been revoked. Via TBO.com
A judge revoked bail for two Saudi men arrested Friday for boarding a school bus and riding to Wharton High.
Initially, Mana Saleh Almanajam, 23, and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, 20, were held in Orient Road Jail on bails of $250 each on misdemeanor trespassing charges. Circuit Judge Monica Sierra decided to hold them at a court appearance Saturday so investigators could dig deeper into their pasts.
A friend of the two University of South Florida students tried to post their bail Friday night, said Ahmed Bedier, Tampa director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, but a jail clerk told the friend that they couldn't be released because they were under an immigration hold until a hearing Saturday morning.
At the hearing, Sierra agreed with a prosecutor that she needed to know more about them before she could feel comfortable releasing them.
The prosecutor said neither man carried identification when they were arrested at Wharton High School, and authorities haven't had an opportunity to gather background information beyond a check of state records.
Almanajam and Alsidran appeared confused by the proceedings and smiled nervously as they stood behind a public defender's table.
Bond review hearing is Tuesday.
http://www.michellemalkin.com/
Judge Revokes Bail For Saudi Bus Riders
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBMTMWRGNE.html
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