- Oct 11, 1999
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From Time:
TIME also has learned that the FBI's preventive efforts are focusing increasingly on trucks as vehicles for terrorism. "U.S. roads are jammed with bombs on wheels," writes TIME's John Cloud, "30,000 vehicles that transport poisonous gas, toxic liquids, petroleum products and explosives."
Since drivers of rigs hauling dangerous loads must have both a commercial driver's license and a hazardous material ("haz-mat") endorsement from a state, FBI agents and other law enforcers have contacted or visited dozens of the 600 truck-driving schools across the U.S., reports TIME's Michael Weisskopf. They are seeking enrollment records going as far back as 1994.
"State officials say that a former employee of Careers in Trucking in Henderson, Colo., has given the Denver FBI office a promising lead," according to TIME: "25 to 35 Arab men attended the school in small groups over the past two years, the ex-employee says. Each student paid $3,400 in cash for the 15-day program?and none sought job placement afterward. Because none of the students spoke English, they were accompanied by an interpreter, the same person for each group.
Arab students received a driver?s license, sources say. (It?s not clear how they passed the written test, which is in English.) Owner Charlie Tweedy says FBI agents have examined his files and interviewed his employees. But he denied that his company had taught non-English speakers."
I actually called the FBI 3 weeks ago & my congressman about this possibility. (Yeah I'm a loon)
TIME also has learned that the FBI's preventive efforts are focusing increasingly on trucks as vehicles for terrorism. "U.S. roads are jammed with bombs on wheels," writes TIME's John Cloud, "30,000 vehicles that transport poisonous gas, toxic liquids, petroleum products and explosives."
Since drivers of rigs hauling dangerous loads must have both a commercial driver's license and a hazardous material ("haz-mat") endorsement from a state, FBI agents and other law enforcers have contacted or visited dozens of the 600 truck-driving schools across the U.S., reports TIME's Michael Weisskopf. They are seeking enrollment records going as far back as 1994.
"State officials say that a former employee of Careers in Trucking in Henderson, Colo., has given the Denver FBI office a promising lead," according to TIME: "25 to 35 Arab men attended the school in small groups over the past two years, the ex-employee says. Each student paid $3,400 in cash for the 15-day program?and none sought job placement afterward. Because none of the students spoke English, they were accompanied by an interpreter, the same person for each group.
Arab students received a driver?s license, sources say. (It?s not clear how they passed the written test, which is in English.) Owner Charlie Tweedy says FBI agents have examined his files and interviewed his employees. But he denied that his company had taught non-English speakers."
I actually called the FBI 3 weeks ago & my congressman about this possibility. (Yeah I'm a loon)
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