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.
The democrats and liberals could care less about threats to this country. Just like New Orleans, they wait for the disaster then pounce on the President. They take no blame but are very happy to dish it out.
well at least by that gooberment guest. "He made some comment like "They've (the jihadists) have never targeted schools."
It's ignorance or lies. (I think the later)
Looks like the name of an obscure political, artistic or religious movement.
The Left in America is very different from the Left in "Third World" countries. OUr Leftists are self-hating and guilt-ridden. The Leftists in North Korea, Venezuela, Mexico and Iran are not. In fact, the attitudes are so different that one can't help but wonder at times if it is the same ideology at all.
If a chr*stian objects to an obscene billboard, the Lefties defend it and attack him, in order to prove this is not a "chr*stian theocracy." If a moslem were to attack that same billboard the same Lefties would join in demanding that it be taken down, in order to prove that America is a tolerant, multicultural country. In other words, if a chr*stian wants it taken down it must be kept up to prove this is not a chr*stian country. And if a moslem wants it taken down then it must be taken down in order to prove this is not a chr*stian country.
American Liberals, like Rosie O'Donnell (mach shemo!) see their fellow American chr*stians as the dark side of themselves, so their hatred of these people is not bigotry. But moslems are "the other" and so must be celebrated and protected at all costs.
The contemporary Third World Left seems to have much more in common with World War II-era fascist Japan than it does with the old USSR.
No, seriously it's Muslims!
The "religion of peace" folks.
LOL!!!
Totally believable, too.
I'm not too confident he was telling the truth either. Just look at how mealy mouthed this FBI warning is.
Don't forget also that there would have been incidents had the underlying plots not been discovered (i.e., the "Bojinka" style plot uncovered in Britain, the "Keystone" Jihadists in Florida, and other uncovered plots).
As far as it being a school I teach at or my child attends? Those plans aren't on the internet as these are 40+ year old buildings. Newer schools routinely have their plans online so they are available for public approval and public discussion. But I knew about this months ago - in fact, you and I had an exchange about it.
I'm not sure why you posted this to me--was it to scare me, anger me, disturb me, inform me? My point stands - we are all targets wherever we are and wherever we go by virtue of being Americans. When one American is threatened, we should all feel threatened, not superior because we think we do something that will keep us fundamentally safe. That is a false security. Dead is dead.
BTW Virginia has conceal-carry laws. Granted, bringing a gun into a school is against the law, but I'll bet many will take their chances with a judge than with a terrorist.
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