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 and the media is still excoriating them here in Denver for not going in right away. In retrospect, they should have gone in Columbine right away, they may have saved lives that way.
But up against muslim terrorists whose only goal is to kill as many as possible, I'm not sure any strategy is effective. They will not be 2 novice teenagers randomly shooting. I could see them waiting to get as many LEO's as possible in the building before they blew it up. I'm afraid once they get in a building or bus, there is zero chance of anyone coming out alive. You simply cannot defend agaist people who are willing to die bringing about their desired end, and rushing the building the LEO's would find themselves fighting against a professional army, not inexperienced teenagers. I'm afraid there is no good answer.
Ummm, if the problem is Muslims becoming bus drivers, then I think handing them the authority to carry firearms might add to the problem, not solve it.
(By the way, I'm have my CCW.)
Are we prepared to shoot the so called leftist American "body shields" who are sure to try to block access to mosques against evil right wing "vigilante" types,,,?
Guaranteed there would be a bunch of peace-nik types who will try to "blunt" our anger!
You got that right. And of course the Russians don't have groups like the ACLU do deal with, which wants to make the U.S. act like wussies.
I wish Al Quadea would attack the ACLU - of course it would be silly for them to attack a friend.
This is a prime example of how irrelevant Congress is. Nothing should be higher on the Congressional agenda, given this FBI report, than holding these hearings.
review
Agreed.
It's coming.
read this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1804271/posts
Still No Decision On Charges For Forgetful Bus Driver
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
We can never have enough police to protect our free society without losing it to a police state. We, the people, must be the ones doing the protecting in order to be effective. The professional police must be a force designed to teach and guide the citizens to avoid mob rule or vigilantism.
And that's what that's all about.
My kids go to schools with Christian in their names as well. It is a risk, but I still think if the terrorists pull something off at a school, they want the highest body count possible, which means the bigger public schools.
We'll see, I have no illusions that my kids are any safer than anyone else, but I do know this. I will not deny the name of Christ for safety, and neither will my children.
Another good reason to pull your kids out of public skrewls and home school them.
What about Muhammed and malvo, they targeted a school in this country. Shot a kid. Or are they not considered Jihadists?
Thanks to all researchers/linkers. BTTT.
That was a feeling more than a conclusion based upon how odd the announcement was and what is generally considered to be an extremist. Be that as it may this article does not quote the FBI wrt being muslim. Since the FBI did NOT initially say that has there been another announcement or did the reporter come to his own conclusion?
>>>I think there are quite a few nut cases we aren't told are linked to terror but really are... Thats just my opinion
I agree. And more. We have allies and policy makers that need to be named and held accountable also. Until they are, we will all continue to be victims.
I'm not sure our children are "our most precious resource".
We actually do the same thing, but we have a nice sounding euphemism for it; "choice". We depict it as a sign of freedom and liberty.
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