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.
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
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.
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."
Yeah I figured that was what was meant. Unique typo though.
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.
Global Warming to the Left, Beslan to the Right. We better stand back a little and look at what we are doing.
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.
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.
Thank you very much for the link.
Thank you very much for the links!
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~
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.
No, I actually live in Texas.
You are luckier then me, at least you can have a gun. ~P~
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