FLASH! Update on School Bus Terrorism

Charlotte, NC (TLS). Michael Cutler, one of the top counterterrorism experts in the nation, states that the recent FBI warning concerning the possibility of school bus terrorism should be taken with utmost seriousness.

Although the FBI downplayed the significance of the threat by stating there is no current credible threat to the nation's students and school buses, Cutler maintains there is ample reason for alarm.

Citing a known history of terrorist groups utilizing school vehicles either as a cover for covert operations or as a means to launch direct attacks, Cutler states that a prudent course is to maintain a heightened level of alert. Terrorists have done this sort of thing before, many times.

Here are some examples:

*In the summer of 2006 the New York Times reported that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had taken down a terrorist cell operating out of Ontario. One of the ring leaders of that terror cell was a local school bus driver who used his position to recruit for the Jihad and to gain easy access to hundreds of students on a daily basis.

*In August of 2004 terrorists attacked a school in Russia that resulted in the deaths of 323 hostages, including 156 children. According to a CNN report of that terrorist attack, the perpetrators had access to the school through unexpected means--such as school buses, among others.

In addition, according to Cutler, school buses make excellent covers for surveillance and covert operations. The FBI reports that Muslim terrorists have been buying school buses and getting licenses to drive them. Thousands of school buses dot the landscape each day throughout America to the extent that no one notices them except when they put out the 'STOP' signal. What better way to conduct subversive and dangerous operations within the United States than to use a school bus as a cover?

Further, Cutler states that these buses are the perfect vehicles for transporting explosives, bombs, and other weapons. These vehicles are large and ubiquitous, and thus, they provide a perfect place to pack full of explosive devices. At that point a school bus automatically becomes one large weapon of mass destruction.

The FBI claims that most foreign nationals who are now driving school buses are 'legitimate.'

How do we know this? How do they define 'legitimate?'

If the term 'legitimacy' is defined in the same manner that illegal aliens who run drugs into this country from Mexico are defined, this nation faces a most serious, dire threat.

The United States government has taken such a lackadaisical attitude toward illegal aliens that even foreign criminals are granted immunity in exchange for testifying against our own Border Patrol agents. Given the government's track record on the immigration status of nearly 20 million illegal aliens, it is awfully difficult to buy into their notion that all of these foreign nationals who drive school buses are 'legitimate.'

In short, no matter what the FBI says publicly, the nation's counterterrorism intelligence apparatus believes that this is a most serious threat to the nation's security.