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Observations from the Research In our research we found that incidents of school terrorism follow the trend set by terrorism in general - roughly 40% of attacks focus on transportation systems as targets. As evidenced by the attacks on September 11th, 2001 in the United States, March 11th 2004 in Madrid, Spain, and July 7th 2005 in London, England, public transportation is a favored target for terrorists. While transportation systems do not make up a majority of attacks, they do account for a large portion of them, and thusly we should be prepared for such attacks on our school transportation...

MILWAUKIE, Ore. -- Police said a bomb squad blew up two suspicious devices at a high school in North Clackamas County Friday morning, the day after officials decided to close the school due to several bomb threats. A robot was used to destroy the two devices just before 11 a.m., according to deputy Joel Manley with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office. “The North Clackamas School District put together a team of searchers and they found a backpack within the school building that was beeping every ten seconds,” Manley said “They also found another device that looks like a pipe bomb...