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.
They WILL do this sooner or later. They've done it before, and we've created these wonderful 'gun-free zones' giveng them carte-blanche to do whatever they wish.
Post incident, it will not pay to be a Muslim in this country. Not a mosque will be left standing. And I'll do my very best to assist in that outcome. When the government fails in its duty, that duty passes to the hands of non-state actors. I will not be alone.
I find this to be frightening and I take my daughter to school every day and pick her up. Her private school doesn't pick up kids - and I'm frightened for her friends.
Our private school uses First Student. Did you see what I posted about First Student?
Don't forget, here in NJ, First Student had that bus driver connected to NAMGLA:
http://losangeles.fbi.gov/pressrel/2007/la011207.htm
I can't help but think about that and the little kids that keep getting left on buses.
I will add, my husband keeps telling me there are a lot of kids coming to the emergency room with STDs. They consistantly say they catch it on the buses.
What is going on with our school buses?
(I drive my kids, no buses!)
ping to post #21 above
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They do this and every Islamic scumbag in the country will have a big target on the back of their heads.
Such an incident won't end with shooting every terrorist--preventing any possibility for John McCain and Dick Durbin to repeat their shrieking fairy act.
It will prompt the demand that Mecca be targeted.
And of course the thought police will attempt to blame some "troubled loner"--
See post 31.
They want to hurt us, and hurt us badly. What could do so more efficiently than simultaneous attacks on our children?
My wife is a teacher and I know a little bit about the local schools. They are prepared to deal with naughty students and improper parking and late homework.
But an attack by a group of armed terrorists? Please. They would go into "lockdown", meaning they pull all the students into their classrooms and lock the doors. Someone, probably the principal, would call the local police. Within a few minutes the local police would arrive and stand back while assessing the situation and deciding what to do. Word would get out to the Feds, who would arrive later. All would be cautious and stay away from the school. The media circus would arrive. Negotiators would arrive. Useless politicians would arrive.
Meanwhile, the terrorists have had plenty of time to scope out the school and wire the entrances with explosives and place themselves in optimum positions. They would laugh at the locked classroom doors, and would bring many students together in a central location such as the gym, as they did at Beslan. They would ensure that anyone attempting to breach the gathering area would cause the deaths of the hostages. They don't want to negotiate, they want to horrify.
Once this scenario has developed, there is no easy solution. There is no Rambo plan. There is no negotiation. Kids are going to die. The only way to solve such a scenario is to prevent it in the first place.
May Allah help his people if such a plan is carried out.
STD'S as in Sexually Transmitted Diseases from riding a School Bus?
Must be talking about body lice, not real STD'S. If the kids are getting real STD'S, then it is criminal on the part of any and all drivers and officials for allowing wanton sexual activities on those buses.
One cannot contract STD's without doing it.
No, not body lice. Actual sexually transmitted diseases.
>>>One cannot contract STD's without doing it.
We know that.
Great post! Read the horrors of the Beslan massacre. BTTT!
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.
O.M.G.!!! Calpernia, this is extremely disturbing news.
I live near Salt Lake City now. Recently, as you probably read, we had a psychopath go into a mall and start shooting and killing people. An off duty cop who was having a pre-Valentine's Day dinner with his wife engaged the shooter and within minutes city police arrived and went right after the Bosnian Muslim terrorist and killed him. The news reports said that this rapid counter attack was the tactic now used by police since the Columbine High School shoot up and slaughter where cops stood by trying to assess the situation before going after the two kids killing their classmates. News reports about the Trolley Mall shooting also said police forces throughout the nation are studying the Salt Lake City incident to learn what they can about confronting the murderers as soon as they can to save lives.
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