The day before terrorists attacked New York and Washington, a fifth-grader in a Dallas suburb told his teacher World War III would begin the next day, school officials have told the FBI.

The boy was absent from school the day of the attacks, Sept. 11, and the following day, but has been at school since then, said Rhonda Lucich, a director of elementary education for the Garland Independent School District.

Lucich said the boy approached his teacher on the afternoon of Sept. 10 and casually told her:

"Tomorrow, World War III will begin. It will begin in the United States, and the United States will lose."

Lucich said the child's statements were passed along to the FBI. She said she did not know whether the agency had acted on the tip. An FBI spokesman could not be reached for comment.

Lucich said school officials are concerned, but not alarmed.

"It is one of those things I sincerely want to believe was coincidental," Lucich said.

Lucich declined to name the elementary school involved. She said she was told about the boy's comment by his teacher and the school's principal two days after the Sept. 11 attacks.

She said the boy is multiracial but that she does not believe his ethnicity includes a Middle Eastern background.

U.S. officials believe Middle Eastern terrorists linked to Saudi Arabian exile Osama bin Laden are responsible for last week's attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.

Garland is a northern suburb of Dallas. Two charities in the neighboring suburb of Richardson have been investigated in the past for possible ties to Palestinian terrorist organizations.

The Global Relief Foundation Inc. and the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, both based in Richardson, have been investigated on allegations they raised money for Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization. Both organizations have denied such activity.

Did anyone inquire if this boy or any of his family work for the state department, CIA, FBI, ATF, etc? There is a very subtle, anti-arabic tone to this tired piece, dredged up from two years ago.

I just can't wait until all Arabs are wiped off the face of the Earth!

Found out he's the anti-christ, no big deal.

WHAT!!!!! OH MY!!!!!!!! OH NO!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Nov. 6, 2000 - A Jacksonville schoolteacher reported today that one of her students told her that the day after would mark the rise of the Anti-Christ.

Syvia Grinich, a teacher at Peakenese Elementary, said she disturbed when one of her third grade students stepped up to her after morning recess and said, "the anti-christ will rise here in Florida." Ms. Grinich thought nothing of the comment until the multi-racial girl added, "and several black people will be raptured."

When Ms. Grinich asked the child what she meant by the second comment, the girl added, "several blacks will just disappear off the voter rolls."

Ms. Grinich immediately contacted her local minister, Deacon Evers, who said that the girl may be experiencing delusions, given that she comes from an impoverished home, with no health care and no hope for social mobility, given the current Governor Jeb Bush's removal of affirmative action programs. The matter was raised to local law enforcement, who were too busy setting up road blocks in anticipation of the presidential election the following day.

Ms. Grinich at first decided to drop the matter, although she did make note of one of the child's last comments, "the whore of Babylon will herald the anti-christ's arrival."

Secretary of State Katherine Harris could not be reached for comment.

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