Report: U.S. stops using school buses after Frankfurt shootings
Police work around a U.S. military bus after the March 2 shootings at Frankfurt Airport in Germany.
March 10th, 2011
07:47 AM ET

Report: U.S. stops using school buses after Frankfurt shootings

A week after a gunman killed two U.S. service members aboard a bus at Germany's Frankfurt Airport, the U.S. military has stopped using blue American-style school buses to transport troops, the newspaper Stars and Stripes reports.

The distinctive buses were criticized as "obvious targets for terrorists," according to the Stripes report.

Frankfurt Airport officials told the newspaper the blue buses have not been seen at the facility since the shooting, which left two U.S. airmen dead and two wounded.

Americans are still being shuttled from Ramstein Air Base to the Frankfurt airport using German buses, the report said.

The suspect in the attack is Arid Uka, 21, whom German authorities described as a recently radicalized Muslim apparently influenced by local radical Islamist websites.

The driver of the bus, Airman 1st Class Zachary Cuddeback, 21, of Stanardsville, Virginia, and Senior Airman Nicholas Alden, 25, of Williamston, South Carolina, were killed in the attack.

Two other U.S. personnel, Senior Airman Edgar Veguilla, from Wichita Falls, Texas, and Staff Sgt. Kristoffer Schneider, of Irwin, Pennsylvania, were injured and are "doing well and improving," an Air Force spokesman told Stars and Stripes.

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  1. .

    It doesn't look blue to me...

    March 10, 2011 at 8:44 am | Report abuse |
  2. Daniel

    What the U.S. needs to do is to pull it's troops out of Germany altogether. If Germany is so adamant about having foreign troops on it's soil,then let the Brazilians,Russians or Indians send their troops in to replace the American ones! They'll be just as effective.

    March 10, 2011 at 9:25 am | Report abuse |
    • RUFFNUTT

      Beautiful idea,Daniel. I couldn't have said it better myself. Now if we could only convince the right-wing thugs in Washington of it,but I find that rather dubious.

      March 10, 2011 at 10:01 am | Report abuse |
    • yessiree bob

      Exactly right. We need to pull out our troops from all countries who don't want or need us there. Stop playing policeman to the world

      March 10, 2011 at 1:38 pm | Report abuse |
    • Adam

      I have a better idea. Move all the Muslims out of Germany, then everyone will be safe.

      March 11, 2011 at 11:40 am | Report abuse |
  3. Cesar

    That would be good, but I don't think our troops get much of a break.

    March 10, 2011 at 9:39 am | Report abuse |
  4. Philip

    Sure, blame it on the school bus.

    March 10, 2011 at 10:23 am | Report abuse |
    • yessiree bob

      Guns don't kill people, school buses do.
      Has a certain ring to it, you must admit.

      March 10, 2011 at 1:41 pm | Report abuse |
  5. Philip

    @RUFFNUTT...Is there such a thing as a left-wing thug?

    March 10, 2011 at 10:25 am | Report abuse |
  6. intelligence gap

    Is it true what they say in the notorious book called the bell curve that americans are increasingly more stupid and drunken and need others to blame like in germany and france? IS WEALTH intelligence? The second wealthiest man is mexican until the new oil price increases. Is this airport worker part of a friend family favor american network? He is not radicalized like kansas .mil white militias.. He is a favored status friend i suspect.

    March 10, 2011 at 11:45 am | Report abuse |
    • not you

      @ intelligence gap : get laid bro...However, in order to get a girl in bed with you, you need to–> Step 1: get off your butt and build some muscle. Step 2: stop being so ugly. Step 3: stop complaining about problems over the internet. Once you've done all of this...You'll still be a baffoon, but at least you might not be a virgin.

      March 10, 2011 at 2:52 pm | Report abuse |
  7. Philip

    @intel gap...is debt the same as wealth? One single foreign bank determines what nations are allowed to be in debt, and what nations are not. Indebted nations struggle with obesity, while solvent nations have people who starve. Solvent debt-free nation's natural resources are generally plentiful, but their leaders take bribes to allow foreigners to plunder these resources with little of the profit making it's way to the people who truly own the resources. You may have noticed some of these people taking to the streets in Africa lately in protest of this. Now, name that foreign bank. Anyone?

    March 10, 2011 at 12:38 pm | Report abuse |
  8. not you

    @ intelligence gap : get laid bro...However, in order to get a girl in bed with you, you need to–> Step 1: get off your butt and build some muscle. Step 2: stop being so ugly. Step 3: stop complaining about problems over the internet. Once you've done all of this...You'll still be a baffoon, but at least you might not be a virgin.

    March 10, 2011 at 2:51 pm | Report abuse |
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