DAR AL HARB - U.S.A.: YOUR SCHOOL BUS DRIVER MAY BE A TERRORIST...THINK BESLAN

FBI: Extremists Signing Up to Be School Bus Drivers
Bulletin Comes in the Wake of Other Warnings About the Safety of American Children

Your child's school bus driver could be a terrorist, according to an FBI bulletin issued today. This report comes in the wake of other recent warnings about the threat of terrorists in schools. From today's Fox News report--Members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counter terror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said, "Parents and children have nothing to fear."

"There is no plot. There is no threat. And parents and children can feel perfectly safe," FBI spokesman Richard Kolko stated to FOXNews.com. It noted "recent suspicious activity" by foreigners who either drive school buses or are licensed to drive them, according to a counter terror official who read parts of the document to The Associated Press. Per the report, some foreigners "with ties to extremist groups" have been under recent investigation.

The bulletin says that these foreigners "with ties to extremist groups" have been able to "purchase buses and acquire licenses." Although these are foreigners "with ties to extremist groups", the Homeland Security and the FBI report states the government has "no information indicating these individuals are involved in a terrorist plot against the homeland."

Additionally, the memo states: "Most attempts by foreign nationals in the United States to acquire school bus licenses to drive them are legitimate." One counter terror official, who requested to remain anonymous, told the press "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."

FBI spokesman Richard Kolko told FOXNews.com, "I hate to characterize this as a warning." Instead, he said it is an "informational bulletin" that's part of routine information sent to local law enforcement agencies for use as background information while they are performing their normal duties.

"This is just an awareness issue for local law enforcement. ... It just makes them smarter," Kolko told reporters. Today's FBI bulletin about extremists getting school bus licenses is not the first such warning to law enforcement officials about the threat of terrorists in schools. Others have been issuing similar sober warnings.

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1) FBI: Extremists Signing Up to Be School Bus Drivers