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An American Beslan?
IBD Editorial ^ | 20 Mar 07 | Unknown

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bus; democrats; globaljihad; islam; jihad; muslims; religionofpeace; schoolbus; terrorism; waronterror; wot
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To: metmom; nmh

This is what I was referring to as what was meant as an extremist.

"My spouse mentioned that it was alluded to on abc news that the group were WHITE SPURELINSTS that the warning was about" nmh


161 posted on 03/21/2007 7:49:35 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Defeat Hillary's V'assed Left Wing Conspiracy)
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To: elhombrelibre; All

Years ago I thought that we might see a number of small scale attacks even suicide attacks on bus stops, subways, schools, high traffic areas. They have not transpired.

The reason is, I believe, because they are playing a stalling game to bring the Party of Treason back to power. Any domestic attacks would galvanize the American dumbasses behind the Republicans once again so they will be avoided. Keep the pressure on in Iraq and allow the Treason Media to keep up the LIE that the War is a defeat rather than a tremendous victory and the Party of Treason will take power again giving the Terror movement its win.


162 posted on 03/21/2007 7:54:09 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Defeat Hillary's V'assed Left Wing Conspiracy)
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To: elhombrelibre

Nor that the Utah mall murderer was in fact out on a Jihad looking at his day of martyrdom as the "happiest day in his life."


163 posted on 03/21/2007 7:57:46 AM PDT by junta (It's Jihad stupid! It's the borders stupid! It's Political Correctness stupid!)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Pardon my typo

SPURELINSTS should be Supremest.
164 posted on 03/21/2007 8:04:25 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: nmh

Yeah I figured that was what was meant. Unique typo though.


165 posted on 03/21/2007 8:31:20 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Defeat Hillary's V'assed Left Wing Conspiracy)
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To: elhombrelibre

166 posted on 03/21/2007 8:35:07 AM PDT by Gritty (In our time urgency and innovation are strangely absent: slumberers decline to be roused-Mark Steyn)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
"Years ago I thought that we might see a number of small scale attacks even suicide attacks on bus stops, subways, schools, high traffic areas. They have not transpired."

Opinion and observation and studying the islamist extremist jihad, has told me that these people are very patient, they won't be satisfied with small scale attacks, they want maximum casualties. To ignore these truths at any level is asking for trouble. For them, the only reason to be involved in something small scale is just to practice for something bigger.
167 posted on 03/21/2007 8:40:05 AM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)
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To: drymans wife

Well they certainly are happy to pull off small scale attacks in Israel, Iraq, India, Thailand, Eygpt, Pakistan and Afganistan. After 911 their chances of repeating it are almost non-existent and they know it.


168 posted on 03/21/2007 8:43:19 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Defeat Hillary's V'assed Left Wing Conspiracy)
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To: elhombrelibre

Global Warming to the Left, Beslan to the Right. We better stand back a little and look at what we are doing.


169 posted on 03/21/2007 8:46:31 AM PDT by RightWhale (Treaty rules;commerce droolz; Repeal the Treaty)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Agreed, there is not much they can do to compare to 9/11, because we were completely blind, they could never do anything comparable to the surprise aspects of it. I think the FBI and Homeland Security have thwarted many small scale attacks, and because of that America becomes naive and lackadaisical again almost to the point of pre 9/11. We are beginning to see things as merely coincidental again. Not to mention the left feeling completely remorseful to them. Thats exactly what the extremist strive for.
170 posted on 03/21/2007 8:56:58 AM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)
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To: drymans wife

This is why I discount additional attacks. Things are going their way thanks to the Treason Media/Party of Treason lies. Why would they upset the apple cart for no advantage? Reawakening the sleeping dumbasses is the worst thing they could do for their cause.


171 posted on 03/21/2007 9:07:24 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Defeat Hillary's V'assed Left Wing Conspiracy)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Agreed, I feel the same way. However, I am not so sure they do. It would be the worst thing they could do, yet their mission is a fundamental principal of religion. In their minds they feel they are doing what Allah has ordained them to do just what they are trying to do. Thats to take over Christian societies and beliefs. In which case we have to be stronger in ours as Christians. I am not so sure the left are with us on that. They want to feel sorry for them and let them read from the Koran in our most highest political courts and government.
172 posted on 03/21/2007 9:21:42 AM PDT by drymans wife (They is nothing like the mind of a TM;'er)
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To: rightwingextremist1776
Judging by the resolve of the real Americans, I would submit to you that we are. We outnumber the PC wimpy Americans by vast numbers, and we are well armed.

Exactly. Doom and gloom and woe is us aside, if the shite hits the fan, America has more stand up and take charge-type people per capita than any other nation on the planet. Remember, our brave bretheren banded together to take down a plane lest it be crashed into our nation's Capital.

The average American just hasn't been pushed hard enough yet.

173 posted on 03/21/2007 9:44:53 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Believe it or not but FR's spell checker did NOT pick it up as a misspelling - SPURELINSTS.
174 posted on 03/21/2007 4:19:05 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Calpernia

Thank you very much for the link.


175 posted on 03/21/2007 7:27:13 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: pandoraou812

Thank you very much for the links!


176 posted on 03/21/2007 7:27:34 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen

Hi, no problem , I know there are better ones but I had so much to do today I grabbed the ones I could easily find. Are you in NJ too? ~P~


177 posted on 03/21/2007 8:27:05 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: CJ Wolf

By who? You, me or the government? Or the press? The government and press won't even call the guy in Salt Lake City a jihadist.


178 posted on 03/21/2007 8:33:36 PM PDT by TigersEye (For Democrats; victory in Iraq is not an option!)
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To: pandoraou812

No, I actually live in Texas.


179 posted on 03/21/2007 8:53:18 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen

You are luckier then me, at least you can have a gun. ~P~


180 posted on 03/21/2007 9:49:53 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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