C/o MM. Her reader alerted her to a bulletin from the FBI, which is looking for two men who’ve been acting strange on Washington State ferries. Have you seen them?

King5-TV reports:

The FBI is asking for the public’s help two identify two men who have been seen acting strangely aboard Washington State ferries recently.

According to federal agents, passengers have seen the men on several occasions exhibiting unusual behavior. The FBI did not say precisely what that unusual behavior entailed.

Anyone who knows the men or there whereabouts are asked to call the FBI at (206) 622-0460.

Michelle points out the results of a 2004 investigation by The Seattle Times, which discovered terrorist probing of the Washington State ferry system:

Groups of men, including one tied to a federal terrorism investigation, have videotaped Washington ferry operations, prompting federal authorities to conclude the system has been under surveillance as a possible target for an attack.

U.S. Attorney John McKay, officials in the U.S. Coast Guard and other members of Seattle’s Joint Terrorism Task Force all share in that conclusion.

“We may well be the target of preoperational terrorist planning,” McKay said.

A confidential FBI assessment of the threat to the state ferries is partly behind an increase in security for large-capacity ferries nationwide, McKay and others say.

The state ferry system is the nation’s largest, carrying 26 million passengers last year. It began implementing new security requirements — including tripling the number of cars screened for explosives — this weekend.

For its assessment, the FBI gathered 157 incidents on or near ferries that law-enforcement officers, ferry workers and passengers have reported as suspicious since Sept. 11, 2001. The Seattle Times obtained a document detailing those incidents.

If you see something suspicious, report it. Don’t hesitate, and don’t let the fear of being called Islamaphobic or racist stop you. You’re going to be called that anyway. At least by reporting it, you could be saving lives. Remember the Fort Dix plot? It was stopped because a Circuit City employee notified police of the content of videos the plotters were having copied. He saved American lives.

These men have not been implicated, but the FBI is seeking them. If you know these men or their whereabouts, contact the FBI: 206) 622-0460.