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| Md: FBI probes suspicious incident at Jewish girls middle school |
| 2003-11-07 |
| Close to home, huh, Fred? Hat tip to LGF Officials at a Jewish girls middle school in Mount Washington told parents last week that the FBI is investigating a Middle Eastern couple who were spotted videotaping the Smith Avenue campus and pupils. Shlomo Spetner, president of Bais Yaakov School for Girls, wrote to parents on Oct. 31 that a parent had spotted a car with a man and woman who appeared to be Middle Eastern. The parent reported to the school’s principal and police that the pair videotaped the entrance to the school and the girls as they were leaving the building. When the parent approached them, according to the letter and a police report, they fled. The parent reported the license plate number of the car, and Baltimore County Police, and members of the FBI’s terrorism task force have questioned the driver and are in contact with him, Spetner said. The man is a Saudi national who is a student at a local college. According to a police report, he lives in the Fallstaff neighborhood of Northwest Baltimore. FBI spokesman Larry Foust confirmed that the matter is being investigated but would not comment on the details. Spetner wrote in the letter to parents that the FBI told school officials that it knew of no threats to Jewish institutions in Baltimore but that it would continue aggressively investigating the matter. The FBI put the school in touch with a security consultant, who has performed an analysis of the campus. A security system was installed at the school’s Park Heights Avenue campus last year and a similar system is being evaluated for the middle school. Arthur Rose, the school’s executive vice president, said the school has received responses to the letter from worried parents and that it is taking "aggressive steps" to ensure security If this keeps up we’ll be no better than Toronto |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #12 Rafael: Try these: Serious threat behind El Al airliner diversion "...was diverted away from TORONTO?s Pearson International Airport. 'There was a threat of a missile and officials say that it was so credible that they decided not to take any chances...'" Hearings continue for 19 men suspected as threat to national security "A student pilot from India who apparently few over a nuclear power plant near Toronto will continue to be held in custody... Anwar ur Rehman Mohammed is one of the 19 men arrested two weeks ago..." Terror probe focuses on colleges "...the 19 Pakistani and Indian men who are being held obtained visas by enrolling in the defunct Ottawa Business College, based in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough." |
| Posted by: Old Grouch 2003-11-7 9:31:16 PM |
| #11 If this keeps up we’ll be no better than Toronto Huh??? I don't get it. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2003-11-7 7:34:05 PM |
| #10 Bomb-a-rama says "I'm kinda curious as to how this guy defines "aggressive"." Hopefully it involves Messrs. Smith, Wesson, Colt, Remington, Glock, et al., but I don't know about Maryland's gun laws. That's my aggressive security, anyway. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2003-11-7 5:39:53 PM |
| #9 Arthur Rose, the school’s executive vice president, said the school has received responses to the letter from worried parents and that it is taking "aggressive steps" to ensure security I'm kinda curious as to how this guy defines "aggressive". |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-7 4:58:58 PM |
| #8 Maybe he's a "cleric" and wants to find out if these girls want to learn about the Quran...in other words, a perv. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-11-7 4:57:00 PM |
| #7 Wondering if anyone's casing Smith. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-7 3:34:50 PM |
| #6 If it had been a Catholic girls' school, they'd have kicked his ass. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2003-11-7 3:33:15 PM |
| #5 Things are improving. These "students" now have to actually register and attend classes while conducting their other business. |
| Posted by: Gasse Katze 2003-11-7 3:18:53 PM |
| #4 Are you _sure_ he is a student at a local college... and that the local college actually exists? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-11-7 3:16:59 PM |
| #3 A saudi student. Hem, doesn't seem suspicious, yet. Better check wheather he is attached to any faith-based charities. If so a little follow-up might be in order. Does he speak in a soft voice, smile toothily, perhaps a batting of his eyelashes. Does he collect stones. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2003-11-7 2:47:55 PM |
| #2 A male Saudi national.....a student...lemme guess - in his mid 20's? |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2003-11-7 2:41:40 PM |
| #1 Geepers, my wife attended that school! (at the old campus in the city) |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-11-7 2:31:15 PM |