[lit-ideas] Extremist groups driving my kids to school -- what me, worry?
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:39:41 EDT
Taking a line from SedW's subject title .....
_FBI: Extremists seek school bus work - Yahoo! News_
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070316/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/school_bus_extremists;_ylt=AphvdPY_lfYAq6OieepJ
KfwDW7oF)
(Wonder who determines whom are :"extremists", and how. And what that means
to "them".)
<<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_
(http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=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 It noted "recent suspicious activity" by foreigners who either
drive school buses or are licensed to drive them, according to a counterterror
official who read parts of the document to The Associated Press.
Foreigners under recent investigation include "some with ties to extremist
groups" who have been able to "purchase buses and acquire licenses," the
bulletin says.
But Homeland Security and the FBI "have no information indicating these
individuals are involved in a terrorist plot against the homeland," it says.
The
memo also notes: "Most attempts by foreign nationals in the United States to
acquire school bus licenses to drive them are legitimate."
Kolko said the bulletin was sent merely as an educational tool to help local
police identify and respond to any suspicious activity.
It was not immediately clear whether the extremists intended to do with the
school buses. One counterterror official, who spoke on condition of anonymity
because of the sensitivity of the issue, said it was likely that the
foreigners investigated were merely employed as bus drivers, and did not
intend to
use them as part of any terror plot.>>
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