FBI: Extremists Signing Up to Be School Bus Drivers

FoxNews.com ^ | Friday, March 16, 2007 | Associated Press

[weef]

WASHINGTON — Members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said "parents and children have nothing to fear."

Asked about the alert notice, the FBI's Rich Kolko said "there are no threats, no plots and no history leading us to believe there is any reason for concern," although law enforcement agencies around the country were asked to watch out for kids' safety.

[sbMKE]

Students weren't getting enough indoctrination in the classroom? Which type of extremists were we talking about again?

[stevio]

An act of terror that is implied would push me dangerously close to the point of no return.

[Lil Flower]

Could be those uppity Lutherans again...

Nah, you know its those.... shhh "extremist presbyterians" stirring trouble again

[JayAr36]

Members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said "parents and children have nothing to fear."

Now there actual proof that the FBI (Fumbling Bumbling Idiots) might actually be just STUPID!

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"What kind of extremists?"

That question jumped right out at us. I could almost think that the author expected us to understand that the Feds were talking about Islamists.

Michael Frazier

[Colorado Mike]

"Shouldn't there be alarm bells going off SOMEWHERE?"

Oh they are, it's just not PC to say so out loud. My reecommendation would be to by a Koran while the demand is still low and prices are as well, and fit your women folk for burkas, so you can welcome our new Muslim Overlords.

[Alouette]

Parents and children have nothing to fear.

They only shoot helpless fluffy bunny rabbits.

[concerned about politics]

Home school. Even if you can't read yourself, they'd get a better education from you than they do now, and they'll live to tell about it.

[tkathy]

Sooner or later children will die.

Then the muslim community will whine "he was such a nice boy, must be mentally ill" blah blah

[poobear]

Can you imagine the day when all over America, terrorists blow just ONE bus up in the school bus lines and kill hundreds if not thousands at each school all over the nation? This isn't just terrorism. This is freaking war!

OK, back to my serendipity. Nothing to worry about. All hail the Democrats! After all, they care about "the children".

[Arrowhead1952]

You sure this isn't from Scrappleface???

[concerned about politics]

This is so horrible. So this is how they're going to do it, all at once on the same day they're going to drive 50 school buses filled with children off cliffs or in front of speeding trains.

It would be easy for them to do, too. They'd be "hero's."

[rbg81]

Yeah, it would be something if 100 buses full of kids where deliberately crashed in synchronization if different parts of the country. If that happened, and officials knew about it (which they seem to), then someone should be drawn and quartered.

[mulligan]

It is one thing that they are signing-up. The more important matter is, are we hiring them?

That would be disturbing. Further, if they are dangerous why are we letting them run around free?

[HardStarboard]

BESLAN! you FBI fools.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Stories like this make it very hard to abide by FR's "no profanity" rules...

[Millee]

Yeah, I am certain al Queda has nothing but cuddly wonderfulness in plans for our children.

Just ask the parents in Beslan, Soviet Union where 335 school kids were gunned down whether we should be concerned. Un-friggin-believable.

[mulligan]

It is one thing that they are
signing-up. The more important
matter is, are we hiring them?

That would be disturbing. Further,
if they are dangerous why are we
letting them run around free?

[SJackson]

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Members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday...An FBI spokesman said "parents and children have nothing to fear.

[CJ Wolf]

History?

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Chowchilla School Bus Hijacking

The most infamous incident of school bus hijacking occured more than a quarter century ago in Chowchilla, Calif. There, at 4:15 p.m. on the afternoon of July 15, 1976, three young men hijacked a school bus with 26 children onboard.

The children, including their driver, were herded into a moving van that was buried -- yes BURIED -- in a quarry near Livermore, California. The kidnappers demanded $5 million ransom. The school bus driver and students eventually burrowed their way to safety after being trapped for 16 hours in the van. Their captors were captured within two weeks.

The three young men convicted of the crime, Richard Schoenfeld, then 22, his brother James, 24, and Newhall Woods also 24, were sentenced to life in prison where they continue to serve to this day. A TV movie was made of the event and the kidnappers have tried to profit from the film, but to no avail.