[coconutt2000]

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.

The author either missed it in haste, or I missed it in the article in haste - but the terrorists probably don't want to hijack empty school buses. The value of a school bus isn't in its size and the quantity of fertilizer based bomb material that it can hold, but in the children such buses carry on a daily basis, usually filled to capacity. Imagine a large school bus with 80-120 students on board being held hostage by an insane, Islamic fanatic whose rigged the bus to blow up with the children still aboard. Now imagine a coordinated attack involving dozens of school buses nation wide on the same day.

Frightening.

[coconutt2000]

correction: whose should be "who has"

[elhombrelibre]

Frankly, they could be planning a variety of these types of attacks with many different angles. We need to be extremely vigilant about this threat.

[KoRn]

"Now imagine a coordinated attack involving dozens of school buses nation wide on the same day."

I've been concerned about this for a few years now. From what I've seen, school buses are barely watched over while garaged. A coordinated multiple bus, multiple location attack would bring unimaginable hell and misery.