FBI: Extremists driving school buses

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

WASHINGTON - Suspected 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.

The bulletin, parts of which were read to The Associated Press, did not say how often foreign extremists have sought to acquire licenses to drive school buses, or where. It was sent Friday as part of what officials said was a routine FBI and
Homeland Security Department advisory to local law enforcement.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070316/ap_on_re_us/school_bus_extremists


If there is no threat, why announce it?

[atreides1]

1. SOP to counter bad news

This is what this administration always does when they want to distract the population from the evil games that they play!!!!

[hatrack]

2. Well, let's see - FBI is part of the Justice Department . . .

That means that Gonzalez is their boss, and we all know who HE works for, and things on Capitol Hill didn't exactly go swimmingly today, so here we are.

[Tunkamerica]

3. FBI:Terrorists working as fuller brush salesmen and milk-men...

...but you shouldn't be afraid to open your door.

[DBoon]

16. Candygram!

Oh no ! A landshark!

[Nikki Stone1]

23. LOL!

Thanks for that

[Ian David]

4. Sit down, and shut-up!

It would explain a lot, wouldn't it?

[Sequoia]

14. Radical dude!

[whistle]

5. I believe that may be true.... KKK members are school bus drivers for sure

[kestrel91316]

6. Ooga booga ooga booga! Be afraid! Be very afraid! Terraterraterra!

[DemKR]

7. WHAT??? MAKES NO SENSE!

I guess I didn't read this correctly first so the post is getting edited.

WASHINGTON - Suspected 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."

Suspected members of extremist groups.......but NOTHING TO FEAR???? Um,talk about a sea saw. This is designed to inflict FEAR. Disgusting!

[Ian David]

13. You have nothing to fear, because terrorists are much safer drivers...

than the tweeked-out meth-head fundies who normally drive our school busses.

[fed-up]

8. that's really, really low-Bush and his gang sinking to threatening children n/t

[Vinca]

9. HUH??????

Be afraid, be very afraid, but don't be so afraid you won't put your kid on the school bus. They've got to do better than this to obliterate the Gonzo/Rove stories.

[ShortnFiery]

10. This is all about fear-mongering the populace into submission ...

I'm sure my bus driver when I was attending Middle School was smoking pot because there wasn't a curb that he'd miss running over. :P

It's sick how often The FEDs attempt to scare the American People.

Truth be told, The People are NOT the ones to be vigilant as "anti-terrorism" is most successful when there is a cooperative effort between intelligence officials and your local police force.

But it's so much fun to repeat the tired old memes: Stay alert! Fight them OVER THERE so we don't have to get them over here. :eyes:

[951-Riverside]

11. ....A man commited a suicide bombing yesterday in Lynn, Massachusetts

http://wjz.com/topstories/topstories_story_074091904.html

Just shows how full of shit they are when it comes to terrorism. :mad:

[Ian David]

12. Bus drivers are attempting to obtain yellow cake from Stop & Shop

and green salt from Petco

[Bigmack]

15. I don't believe this story.... but....

I've often wondered why terrorists don't target elementary schools here.

If you want to bring the US to its knees, just blow up a few schools and watch the anthill swarm.

The rightwingnuts are always saying we have to fight them there, because otherwise they will come here. I don't see anything stopping them from coming here. Whaaat... they couldn't get smuggled across the air-tight US border?

Where are they?

[ProudDad]

18. Probably because the "terrorists" have scruples

unlike the ubbermenchen in the White House who don't seem to lose any sleep over killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children.


Ah, but they're the good guys, right? :sarcasm:

[frylock]

21. i've said all along that if the "terrorists" want to shut this country down..

they'd make a coordinated effort to blow up some strip malls or grocery stores in bum fuck, Iowa or other small towns. Instead, they concentrate on such targets as "Liberty" Tower. :eyes:

[ProudDad]

17. School Bus Drivers: Extremists in FBI

In fact, the whole damn FBI is a bunch of fucked up yahoos.

Yeah, from top to bottom they're fascist incompetents!!!


On Edit: NOT :sarcasm:

[Judi Lynn]

19. Oh, for chrissakes. School bus drivers have had TONS of people who need either a part time job,

as in the case of college students, or a second job, and this activity doesn't take a great deal of time, yet still allows them to augment their incomes. It has attracted foreign students from poorer backgrounds since forever! I think maybe ice cream trucks, too.

It's so doubtful you'd find someone really determined to get here and raise serious hell wasting his time driving a bunch of kids around day in and day out, for minimum wages.

[superconnected]

20. FEAR, FEAR, you must have FEAR

[primavera]

27. Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!

"We have no evidence or cause for concernn, but your children will be blown to bits on their way to school by suicide bombers if you ever even think of questioning our gestapo powers." What a pathetically transparent ploy.

[ret5hd]

22. Are they sure they aren't PEDOPHILES TOO? (nt)

[anotherdrew]

24. Be on the lookout for terrorists posing as FBI, presidential administration members, etc n/t

[pinniped]

25. Then why the F is this newz?

FBI spokesman said, "Parents and children have nothing to fear."

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

26. Of course. Someone in the Bush family

must have taken a job driving a school bus.

Now that would be terror.

[TheConstantGardener]

28. They're after Crankshaft!