An American Beslan?

IBD Editorial ^ | 20 Mar 07 | Unknown

[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.

[elhombrelibre]

Read about off duty cop Ken Hammond and his situation at Trolley Square at this link. Even as a cop, he had to face some of the concerns you mention.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660199801,00.html

[Calpernia]

A Dead City

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1232826/posts

Follow up to To Beslan to her son's grave

Mother and grandmother return from Beslan

Last week Natal'ya Gutnova returned from Beslan, where her ten year-old son Zaur had been shot to death. The Karaganda resident and her mother spent two grief-filled days in the Osetian city.

Relatives search for missing hostages. Photos and descriptions

Ilona Maksimova Sabeyeva. Born 15 Feb 1989. Last seen on 3 Sep when a soldier carried her from the school. Anyone who knows Ilona's whereabouts please call in Beslan 3-44-94.

Kristina Dzhabayeva Goloyeva, 2 years old. Anyone who knows the whereabouts of Kristina, please call in Beslan 3-61-98, in Vladikavkaz - 42-52-15.

Zlata Sergeyevna Aziyeva, born 1970. Her husbad saw her on video clips as Zlata was carried from the school on a stretcher during the freeing of the hostages. Zlata has a pronounced collarbone on the right side, a result of birth trauma, and an appendectomy scar. Telephones: in Beslan 3-50-94, 5-66-19, in Estonia 8-10-372-55669711 & 8-10-372-3599731. E-mail: Njkool2003@mail.ru & tirot@mail.ru

Alina Aslanovna Tokova. 9 years. Anyone knowing her whereabouts is asked to call in Beslan 3-04-25.

Alana Alanovna Lolayeva. 10 years. All who know Alana's whereabouts are asked to call Vladikavkaz 42-81-47 & 44-02-36.

And on and on... thirty-eight still unaccounted for :-(

[EternalVigilance]

The German people and the world never understood the complete depravity of the Holocaust until they had to gaze upon the reality of it, either in person or through photographs.

One of the reasons the horrors of abortion haven't sunk into the psyche of the American people is because there is a societal blackout on the images of it. It takes place, hidden, 4000 every single day, behind sterile walls.

IMO, the images at that link do more than a million words on the page ever could to communicate the evil that is Islamic terrorism.

But, I understand.

[elhombrelibre]

See my post #40. Compare the number of lives lost at Trolley Square in Salt Lake City and the number lost at Columbine High School in Columbine, Co. Professional police seem to think the rush is more effective than the "sitback and and hope they don't kill 'em kill all" approach.

[jveritas]

Agree 100%.

[Centurion2000]

Floor plans for schools in Virginia, Texas and New Jersey have been recovered from terrorist hands in Iraq

If moslems were stupid enough to hit a school in Texas it would be open season on them within about 10 minutes of them killing a child.

[Calpernia]

As long as you understand it isn't just Islam.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/816232/posts
Nazi Roots of Modern Radical Islam

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1089006/posts
Al Qaeda`s Neo-Nazi Connections

[elhombrelibre]

Hmmm, Jerry Jeff Walker has a song that is, I think, named "What I love about Texas." Add what you posted to his list.

[garjog]

"800,000 new Muslim immigrants"

WHY? Why are we permitting this?

Are they any examples of Muslims assimilating?

OK, lets say that pull off an attack at schools and hundreds of little kids are shot and burned.

What then?

[Sender]

Police said a motive for the shooting rampage remains unknown.

Allahu akbar! Unknown.

[elhombrelibre]

Yeah.

[Sender]

What good would it do to rush the school....none . Sadly there would just be more dead. I don't have any answers.

The sooner the terrorists die, the more kids will live. It's as simple as that. Rush them and kill them. They aren't in the school to protest or negotiate. Homeschooling sounds like a really good idea.

[Vermont Lt]

It wouldnt take ten minutes to kill them all. They dont really care if you have guns. If you bring a gun to a C4 fight, you lose.

One plan, as I have read about it, is to simultaneously take over 10-20 schools and kill thousands of kids--all across the country.

The shock to our kids, our parents, and to the economy will be devastating. Kids wont go to school. Parents will stay home. No one will go shopping. No business will be done (at least a lot less business.)

A very simple way to out-do 9/11.

Talk to your kids about what to do if something happens at the school. They are sheep. Teach them how to run away from the herd. Run away from the gun sounds. Break a window and get out. Dont stop to help anyone. Just be focused on getting as far away as you can, as fast as you can. And dont stop until you get home, or drop.

They will target the middle schools. Get them prepared to deal with this. We dealt with getting under the desk every Friday at noon when the air raid sirens went off. This is no different.

[Unknowing]

Korematsu is still good law.

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/65.htm

[Junior_G]

The moment it happened, the first act of the Rosie O'Donnells of the world would be to leap into action (well, okay, waddle into action) and condemn Christian fundamentalists because, you know, they're all the same.

Certainly, the first thought to be generated in the diseased liberal mind after such an attack will be, "Well you can't really say they didn't have a reason to do it."

As a former flaming liberal myself, I can personally attest that nothing is more important to the liberal than the notion that they are somehow more "open-minded" than everyone else. And in 2007, nothing could be more open-minded than sympathizing with terrorists that want to kill your countrymen.

[pandoraou812]

I don't understand why we are letting them in...Good question. Why do we want or need them here? Why?

[EternalVigilance]

As long as you understand it isn't just Islam.

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

"OK, lets say that [they] pull off an attack at schools and hundreds of little kids are shot and burned. What then?"

Then it's time for cowboys & Muslims. Wounded Knee will go down as a highlight of kindness and good will by comparison. As another poster said, it would not be a good time to be a Muslim in America, I'm afraid.

Advice to Moderate Muslims: Help us make sure we never have to find out "What then?"

[metmom]

Did you see this one when you posted to me on that other thread?!

That gives me the creeps now.

[Centurion2000]

It wouldnt take ten minutes to kill them all. They dont really care if you have guns. If you bring a gun to a C4 fight, you lose

Mr Mosque ... meet Mr Thermite.