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Homeland Security: Warning-Alarmism March 26, 2007 issue - The warning arrived late last week. Yet another alarming bulletin about terrorists. This time, schoolbuses were said to be threatened. State and city law-enforcement groups were told that foreigners with possible ties to "extremist groups" had recently bought schoolbuses and applied for relevant licenses. But counterterrorism officials at the FBI, which had issued the warning along with the Department of Homeland Security, insist they know of no recent intelligence indicating that terrorist suspects are trying to get jobs as schoolbus drivers. Officials contacted by NEWSWEEK said they were unaware of any specific current intelligence reports about extremists infiltrating the schoolbus industry. "This intelligence bulletin was not based on specific suspicious activity," said Richard Kolko, an FBI spokesman. He added: "There is no threat. There is no plot. Parents and children have no reason to worry." A second counterterrorism official who follows daily intelligence reporting on U.S. terror threats, but asked for anonymity due to the sensitive subject matter, said that nothing had recently surfaced in secret reporting substantiating a schoolbus threat. So why issue a new federal warning on the subject? A counterterrorism official who also asked for anonymity said that there are analysts who sit around and brainstorm exotic threats. Called "red cell" teams, their job is to try to think of scenarios before the terrorists do. The official said Homeland Security and the FBI issued the schoolbus bulletin as part of their routine effort to alert local police to possible suspicious activity. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the Google Group dm.osint Contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the group's archive at http://groups.google.com/group/dm_osint/topics To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAIR USE NOTICE. Messages posted here contain copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. dm.osint is making it available without profit to dm.osint Google group members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
