Posted on 03/20/2007 5:54:09 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
An American Beslan? By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:20 PM PT
Homeland Security: As Democrats hold more silly hearings to embarrass Republicans, the FBI is warning local police to be alert for Muslim extremists hijacking school buses. Reality check, please.
We wonder if any of the grandstanding politicians on Capitol Hill are thinking in terms of one of these nuts driving a fertilizer-filled yellow bus up to a government building — or, easier yet, a school. Of course not. They're too busy swooning over Valerie Plame to even notice we're still under threat from the Islamic terrorists they say we shouldn't be spying on.
The FBI and Homeland Security Department last week sent out a bulletin to law enforcement across the country warning that Muslims with "ties to extremist groups" are signing up to be school bus drivers. They also noted "recent suspicious activity" by foreigners who drive school buses or are licensed to drive them.
Recent events come on top of several other school bus-related incidents involving Mideast men that raise suspicion of terror activity.
They include last year's surprise boarding of a school bus in Florida by two Saudi men dressed in trench coats. Authorities suspect they were making a dry run to see how easy it would be to hijack or blow up a school bus filled with American children.
Previously, an Arab man from Detroit was caught trying to obtain a job as a school bus driver in New York using fake Social Security documents.
Authorities fear the school massacre that took place in Beslan, Russia, in 2004 may be a dress rehearsal for what al-Qaida plans to do here. Chechen terrorists tied to al-Qaida seized a building in Beslan on the first day of school and slaughtered 338, including 172 kids.
Three years later, schools and local police in this country are still unprepared to deal with such an assault. Most don't have response plans for handling a single active shooter, let alone a cell of trained terrorists.
Yet terror cells secreted inside America may be planning to use buses as a Trojan horse to infiltrate school campuses and murder students and teachers. Floor plans for schools in Virginia, Texas and New Jersey have been recovered from terrorist hands in Iraq. Videotapes confiscated in Afghanistan show al-Qaida terrorists practicing the takeover of a school.
Simultaneous attacks on schools in multiple states would follow Osama bin Laden's goal of crippling the U.S. economy. If multiple schools were hit, parents would drop out of the work force en masse to protect their children.
A prolonged labor disruption would cost businesses billions of dollars in lost revenue.
It's a grim picture. But don't think for a moment that al-Qaida is above targeting school children. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said in his Gitmo confession that while he may not like killing kids, they're fair game in jihad. He claims U.S. forces bombed and killed the children of bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman Zawahiri, and arrested and "abused" his own children.
These people have nothing better to do than sit around and think of ways to kill us and our most precious resource, our children. They have many helpers placed inside U.S. cities who canvass targets and perform other logistics for such attacks. And these people will stop at nothing to pull them off. They're just waiting for the right time, when our guard is down.
Are we witnessing with Muslim men trying to obtain bus licenses what some alert (but ignored) agents witnessed before 9/11 when they noticed a number of Muslim men training to obtain pilot's licenses? Are schools and children the target of the next wave of terror attacks?
Parents should be outraged that Washington would continue to play politics with national security. Instead of using hearings to score partisan points, Congress would best serve constituents by using that power to investigate the terror threat to schools and how best to protect our children from attack.
That story is exactly what I thought of when this "bus driver" story came up.
Some of the attackers were dressed as cops or soldiers, but even if they weren't, what better way to escape than to grab a wounded kid and pretend to run for their safety or for first aid.
Maybe several dozen or hundred "troubled loners."
Unfortunately the outnumbered PC wimpy Americans are the political class and will not be wimpy in suppressing any natural nonwimpy popular reaction to an incident.
NAMGLA is a "hetero" NAMBLA
Yes, nightmares, so are all the fires at the schools.
http://www.google.com/search?q=fires+at+the+schools&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
News:
http://news.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&tab=wn&q=fires+at+the+schools&sa=N&start=10
Several show here:
http://news.google.com/news?q=school+fire&btnG=Search+News&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&tab=wn
Try checking a few pages of this one, I see one exploded in Florida this morning:
http://news.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&tab=wn&q=explosive+device+school&btnG=Search+News
http://news.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&tab=wn&q=gun++school&btnG=Search+News
Looks like a school bus accident, 32 minutes ago, 17 in hospital:
http://news.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&tab=wn&q=school+bus+incident&btnG=Search+News
Thank you for the ping, I just posted several google searches, and right now they are at the end of this thread.
I am afraid the "American Street"," should it react the way you project- the way it should- will be fighting the police forces with their SWAT teams and all the AFTs and those military groups that train and aid the federal teams. Our government will shield the mohos and will disarm and/or shoot Americans to protect them.
Bump.
God forbid, if anything happens at a terror level, stereotypical Islamic Fascists will never be used. It will be converts. And only a fraction of the people will know. The MSM will cover up any blatant connections.
Did you see these photos of the missing Beslan children?
WW2 never ended.<<<
Sad but true.
Does anyone have a another source for this? If this were true, surely it would be huge news here.
Thanks for the ping Cheburaska.
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I don't have the source offhand but it was news here when the plans were found. They were on some jihadi's hard drive IIRC. Must have been a year or more ago.
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