Heads-up All,
especially you parents whose children ride the public school buses:

Quoting Ahmed Bedier, Tampa director of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations said the men likely meant no harm and that because
"they were from Saudi Arabia, that escalated the situation."
He blamed the incident on cultural differences.

Cultural differences??  And maybe this was just a rehearsal?!?! for a
nightmare which Israel sees!  Tell me where "cultural differences" like THIS
are allowed in other countries.  No where! Just in the stupid open boarder
sovereignty-less country of the  USofCanMex.

Dianne

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http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBDJDFFFNE.html

Saudi Men Who Rode School Bus Arrested
By KEITH MORELLI

TAMPA - Two Saudi men were arrested Friday after they boarded a school bus and
rode to Wharton High School in New Tampa.

Students on the bus became alarmed, as did the bus driver, who called ahead.
Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies met the bus at the school and detained
the men. No one was injured and nothing out of line occurred on the bus,
deputies said.

Mana Saleh Almanajam, 23, who lives in Apt. 302 in The Point apartments, and
Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, 20 Monticello Gardens, Apt. 304-A, each were charged
with trespassing on school property. Both remained in Orient Road Jail on
Friday evening. Bail for each was set at $250.

"Both defendants gave several versions of the reason they took a school bus to
a high school," said Hillsborough County sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway.

"They said they wanted to go to Wharton to look around, and then they said
they wanted to go there to have some fun, and then they said they wanted to
enroll in the English classes there," Callaway said.

"We're not sure if this was a situation of them just being new to this
country, or if they were confused or what it was," Callaway said. "We were
unsure as to exactly what the final reason was, but it did cause great
concern for the students on the bus and for us. One of the guys was wearing
shorts with a black trench coat."

While on the bus, the men laughed and spoke in Arabic, Callaway said.

Ahmed Bedier, Tampa director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said
the men likely meant no harm and that because "they were from Saudi Arabia,
that escalated the situation."

He blamed the incident on cultural differences.

"They didn't differentiate between a school bus and public transportation," he
said.

The bus picked up the students and the men at about 7 a.m. Friday at the
corner of Fletcher Avenue and 42nd Street, deputies said.

The bus driver, a substitute, reached her supervisors by telephone. They
relayed the information to Wharton High resource Deputy Mike Eastman, who met
the bus when it arrived at school at about 7:30 a.m., and detained the men.

The sheriff's Homeland Security Division, the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement's Regional Domestic Security Task Force, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement and the FBI all were notified.

Almanajam and Alsidran at first told deputies they were from Morocco, but
later admitted being from Saudi Arabia, deputies said. They said they were
enrolled at the English Language Institute at the University of South
Florida.

Both arrived in the United States about six months ago and have student visas
that require them to be enrolled at the English Language Institute, Callaway
said.

Authorities searched the apartments of the two men and found nothing of
concern, he said.