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Son of a VET
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 Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:45 pm Post subject: *UPDATED* U.S. Alerts Schools About Terror Threat... |
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No details yet.......
http://www.drudgereport.com/
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Son of a VET
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| Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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Being talked about on Rush right now (Roger H.)
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Son of a VET
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Someone in Iraq was found with a computer disk with info on how U.S. Schools respond.
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Son of a VET
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| Quote: | U.S. Alerts Schools About Terror Threat
27 minutes ago
By BEN FELLER, AP Education Writer
WASHINGTON - The Education Department has advised school leaders nationwide to watch for people spying on their buildings or buses to help detect any possibility of terrorism like the deadly school siege in Russia.
The warning follows an analysis by the FBI (news - web sites) and the Homeland Security Department of the siege that killed nearly 340 people, many of them students, in the city of Beslan last month.
"The horror of this attack may have created significant anxiety in our own country among parents, students, faculty staff and other community members," Deputy Education Secretary Eugene Hickok said in a letter to schools and education groups.
The safety advice is based on lessons learned from the Russia incident. But there is "no specific information indicating that there is a terrorist threat to any schools or universities in the United States," Hickok said.
Federal law enforcement officials also have encouraged local police to stay in contact with school officials and have encouraged reporting of suspicious activities, the letter says.
In particular, schools were told to watch for activities that may be legitimate on their own — but may suggest a heightened terrorist threat if many of them occur.
Among those activities:
_ Interest in obtaining site plans for schools, bus routes and attendance lists;
_ Prolonged "static surveillance" by people disguised as panhandlers, shoe shiners, newspaper or flower vendors or street sweepers not previously seen in the area;
_ Observations of security drills;
_ People staring at or quickly looking away from employees or vehicles as they enter or leave parking areas;
_ Foot surveillance of campuses involving individuals working together.
The effort is the latest by the Education Department and other federal agencies to encourage school officials to maintain and practice a plan for responding to emergencies.
After the terrorist takeover of the Russian school, President Bush (news - web sites) asked his top advisers to review their strategies for dealing with hostage situations, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has said.
The federal government is advising schools to take many steps to improve the security of their buildings. Those include installing locks for all doors and windows, having a single entry point into buildings and ensuring they can reach school bus drivers in an emergency.
The Education Department sent its letter by e-mail Wednesday to school police, state school officers, school boards, groups representing principals and many other organizations.
The Homeland Security Department also sent a bulletin Wednesday to federal, state and local emergency officials to provide fresh guidance based on the review of the school siege in Russia.
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Education Department crisis planning help: http://www.ed.gov/emergencyplan/
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| This is especially troubling when you realize that our voting places are in...schools... |
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swing votr
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I am not a very religous person, but I truely beleive there is a special place for this people who seek to harm children in manners similar to the horible event in Russia. I honestly can't imagine how horrible the place is, but I am sure they deserve it 
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shadowy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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I have a school in view of my back window. Will be watching for lurkers.
Y'all do the same.
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| Whatever you do, don't let the teachers (who have CCW licenses) carry guns to school (GRIN). |
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rb325th
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I have 2 kids in School. Different Schools and the one the oldest is in is wide open all day long. Easily accessible and no worry about having to bust your way in. The thought of something like what happened in Russia, happening here scares the life out of me. I hope that people take the threat, not just to schools, seriously and keep their eyes and ears open.
A Terror Attack on U.S. Soil again is not a pipe dream of Homeland Security, it is the goal of AQ and others. They need to hit us again to keep their "credibility" up in the Mid-East and other downtrodden parts of the World.
Hitting us in Iraq or elsewhere is also a part of their plan, but they have to outdo 9/11. It is a part of their methods, each attack bigger than the last, and closer to the hearts and minds of the U.S. Citezenry.
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