SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT AT JEWISH GIRLS SCHOOL

This doesn't look good:

Officials at a Jewish girls middle school in Mount Washington (Maryland--just north of Baltimore) 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.

Before 9-11, this would have been no big deal. After 9-11, its a serious cause for concern.

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, Spetner said. 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.

And it has a Saudi connection. How shocking.

This may or may not be connected, but it came out at sniper suspect John Muhammad's trial not long ago that police found a list in his car when they arrested him and his little sidekick. It was a list of schools in the area, mostly in Baltimore County. Police believe it was a target list: The two planned to start visiting those schools and picking off students if they didn't get the $10 million they demanded in letters to Montogomery County Police Chief Charles Moose.

(thanks to JG)