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Your Friendly Jihadi Bus Driver According to the FBI, terrorists are working as school bus drivers but it's nothing to worry about, the FBI is sure they don't mean any harm. 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...

Charity accused of funneling funds to Iraq By Mark Morris McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A defunct charity and five officers and associates have been charged with illegally sending more than $1.4 million to Iraq while Saddam Hussein was in power. The 33-count federal indictment, which was unsealed Wednesday in Kansas City, is the latest assault on a charity that in 2004 was designated a supporter of global terrorists, including Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida and Hamas. At its core, the indictment alleges the Islamic American Relief Agency-USA solicited cash from U.S. contributors and sent it to "persons and...

Sudden Jihad Syndrome http://cfoiblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/sudden-jihad-syndrome.html Monday, February 26, 2007 Sudden Jihad Syndrome Evidently this mental/emotional malady is on the rise: Sudden Jihad Syndrome It looks like the Muslim teen who opened fire on shoppers in a Salt Lake City mall is yet another case of “sudden jihad syndrome,” a condition in which normal-appearing American Muslims abruptly turn violent. Taken together, this and other cases add up to an invisible jihad inside America. But don’t tell that to the FBI. The politically correct bureau does everything it can to avoid recognizing the obvious Islamic factor in these heinous crimes. Sulejman Talovic, an...

Exclusive: Terrorists’ Plans For Mass Murder At American SchoolsThe EditorsAuthor: The EditorsSource: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.Date: February 13, 2007 In this 21st installment of FSM’s ongoing series of the horrors of illegal immigration and the many heinous crimes committed on our soil because of it, we now take a look at the vulnerability of our schools and remember the unspeakable tragedy of Beslan, Russia, where 172 defenseless children were tortured and then slaughtered by Islamists.     Terrorists’ Plans For Mass Murder At American Schools   The Editors For all you parents and grandparents who still don’t think...

The following is from an email from Gabrielle Goldwater: Home   I   Donate to ACT   I   Subscribe to ACT   I  Join ACT Today   I   Petitions   I   Contact Congress Visa Waiver Program Action Alert, ACT today A message from Michael Cutler, member of ACT Board of Advisors. Please read this important article and the action alert that follows. We need your help.     I was interviewed a couple of days ago by a reporter from the Saint Petersburg Times about the Visa Waiver Program.  I have attached a copy of the article below.    As you might expect, I remain absolutely opposed to this program that in my...

Does Any of Us – Even Our Clergy - Have the Moral Courage to Fight Radical Islam? http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/homeland.php?id=664159 By Susan MacAllen During Hitler’s rise to power, he decided that he would outlaw certain “religious societies” and “sects” which he estimated to be a hindrance to the advancement of a utopian Aryan secular society - the dream of the Nazi party. At the top of his list was the Catholic Church. Holocaust lore abounds with stories of priests working for the SS, and an abundance of photos exist of bishops hobnobbing with Hitler and his cronies. But a far greater number...

Gee, this sounds almost too good to be true, What if the Muslims go ahead with their "threat"... and boycott US Airways, wouldn't it be then one of the most secured aitlines in the world? Yes I know not every Muslim is a terrorist and yes I also know that almost all terrorists are Muslims. No more problem with racial profiling.The Minneapolis Six Sabotage Airline SecurityFrontPage magazine.com, released from custody, the six Muslims denounced the action as discriminatory and called for a thorough investigation of the incident and a US Airways boycott. ... Ann Coulter: How can I make your...

Have any of you served in the Coast Guard? How was it? What did you enjoy most? What did you get out of it? and finally.....were any of you boatswain mates? Son is looking in to going in...just want some info.

Bradford Berenson doesn’t remember Harvard Law School as the most encouraging place for an ambitious young conservative. The 40-year-old partner at Sidley, Austin, Brown and Wood in Washington, D.C., who served in the White House Counsel’s office under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003 and has chaired committees for the Federalist Society, the conservative and libertarian lawyers’ group, entered the program in 1988, in the immediate aftermath of the Reagan-era culture wars. Back then, he said, it was not unheard of for a student pressing a conservative line in a class discussion to get hisses and boos from...

Law schools adopt an Orwellian theory in an effort to keep the military out. Imagine a college accepting your donation, then saying that you cannot have the same access to the school as all other alumni--but that you must continue making donations. Unbelievable? But that is what most law schools now claim: The U.S. government must continue funding universities to the tune of hundreds of millions, despite their decision to deny military recruiters the same access to students granted to all other recruiters. Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear FAIR v. Rumsfeld, an appeal from a 2-1 decision by the...

OCALA - New details emerged in court Tuesday about an Ocala man charged with illegal possession of ricin, a deadly toxin that can be used for bioterrorism. A search of Steven Michael Ekberg's home computer turned up terrorism-related materials, an FBI agent testified at a preliminary hearing in Ocala. Ekberg, 22, was arrested Jan. 13 and charged with illegal possession of ricin, a toxin with no known antidote and so lethal that an amount the size of pinhead can kill. FBI Special Agent Pamela Piersanti testified Tuesday that investigators seized Ekberg's computer at the time of his arrest. They found...

(Washington, DC—November 10, 2004) It wasn't quite "Read my lips," but in the last presidential debate in Arizona, George W. Bush clearly stated that he would not support amnesty for illegal aliens. One week after being narrowly returned to office, the president has reneged on that pledge. Bush has dispatched Secretary of State Colin Powell to Mexico City to open discussions with the Mexican government about the size and scope of amnesty for illegal immigrants and for a massive new guest worker program. "President Bush and Karl Rove have seemingly missed the message of their own, and the Republican Party's,...

McALLEN — The vice president of a temporary employment agency pleaded not guilty this afternoon to charges of falsifying work documents and lying to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force during an investigation into a potential al-Qaida plot here. James Eckensberger Jr., vice president of the San Antonio-Based Tollin Group, offered no comment after entering his plea in federal court. Just moments earlier, U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby held a news conference shedding some light on the investigation that began as a search for al-Qaida operatives but ultimately netted 10 undocumented workers without terror links. The Tollin Group operates in McAllen...

U.S. officials are probing the possibility the al-Qaida terrorist network sought to infiltrate a Texas company in order to contaminate ready-to-eat meals designated for the military. A high-ranking al-Qaida operative provided information leading authorities to nearly a dozen illegal immigrants working for the McAllen, Texas-based Wornick Co., the largest supplier of the meals, according to McAllen's The Monitor newspaper. The firm that places the workers at Wornick has been charged with conspiring to make and use false employment eligibility verification forms. U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby explained, "Immediately after the liberation of Afghanistan from the Taliban in 2002, U.S. forces on...

<p>Department of Homeland Security Hears Your Concerns, doesn't care. Quit calling.</p> <p>Ok people, this is coming to a point where we all need to do something. For everyone that replied to my previous posts and wrote letters to their representatives, it's time again. The kicker is at the bottom. Please persevere and read thru to the end.</p>

As much as 25 percent of inmate population are criminal illegal immigrantsBy Troy Anderson Staff Writer Currently, the federal Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has only three officers assigned to county jails to determine if a foreign-born inmate is a convicted or previously deported criminal alien. "The plus for us is we look at this as a force multiplier,' Kevin Jeffery, an ICE deputy special agent-in-charge, said Tuesday. "The Sheriff's Department is looking at training six individuals. Once these six people have successfully completed their courses, we will have increased our staff by 200 percent.' Sheriff's officials estimate about...

WASHINGTON -- The De-partment of Homeland Security is on the verge of awarding the big-gest contract in its young history for a far-reaching system that could cost as much as $15 billion and would employ a network of computer databases to track visitors to the United States long before they set foot here. The contract, which will probably be awarded in coming days to one of three final bidders, is already generating considerable interest as federal officials try to significantly improve their ability to monitor who is entering at the country's more than 300 border-crossing checkpoints by land, sea and...

W A S H I N G T O N, April 18 — U.S. intelligence officials have uncovered evidence of a potential terrorist attack, ABCNEWS has learned. Like many such tips, it is vague, but the government is disturbed enough that it held a rare conference call with local police to warn them. The intelligence, received a week ago but secret until now, is from known Muslim extremists who suggested an attack — possibly in the U.S. — was imminent, and that operatives were already "in place," sources tell ABCNEWS. "I think it's very clear from what we're seeing...

For Immediate Release Press Office Contact: Suzanne Lubar, 202-282-8010 March 16, 2004 In a first -of- its- kind effort to achieve an even safer and more secure Southwest border, Department of Homeland Security Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security Asa Hutchinson today unveiled the "Arizona Border Control (ABC) Initiative." The kick-off event attended by Congressman Jim Kolbe, U.S. Attorney for Arizona Paul Charlton and dozens of federal, state and local law enforcement officials, as well as a delegation from the Government of Mexico was held at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Air and Marine Operations Hangar in...

<p>Mexico wants to help supervise a U.S. plan to fortify the two countries' common border and slow the flow of illegal migrants who cross illegally into Arizona.</p> <p>The Arizona Border Control Initiative, launched Tuesday, will station at least 200 additional Border Patrol agents along the Mexico-Arizona border. Some 1,800 agents already man the area.</p>