"Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools

The Washington Post reports that all Los Angeles public schools have been closed for the day after a "'credible threat' of violence to students at numerous schools in the sprawling district, and a schools official confirmed that it was a bomb threat to the school district." According to the Houston Chronicle, a law enforcement official speaking anonymously with the Associated Press said that the threat "was emailed to a school board member and appeared to come from overseas. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation. The official says the threat was sent late Monday. Superintendent Ramon Cortines says the threat was made against students at many of the district's schools." The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest school system in the U.S., is no picnic to close; the New York Times notes that the closure throws into disarray "the lives of millions of Angelenos — students, parents, teachers and other school staff members."

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Re:So vague is has to be true?

[Anonymous Coward]

ETA (the Basque terrorists) and RAF (Red Army Faction; German terrorists) also customarily phoned in warnings. It's pretty much standard procedure for European terror groups: they don't actually want to kill people, because that looks bad, but they still want to carry out a bombing to show how serious they are, so they give a warning.

Pretty much just the recent Islamic terrorists don't give warnings. They just talk about it beforehand on Facebook, but none of the agents who are supposed to be monitoring them give a damn.

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[GameboyRMH]

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Re: So vague is has to be true?

[mwehle]

Except that California elected a Republican Arnold as Governor for a spell. Much of Cali's representation is also Republican despite the liberal cities such as San Fran.

Yes, and before Schwarzenegger in my memory we had Pete Wilson, Deukmejian, and Ronald Reagan as well as Gray Davis and Jerry Brown. In the Senate before Feinstein and Boxer we had Pete Wilson and Hayakawa as well as Cranston. California politics are a mixed bag. The state which launched both Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon on their paths to the White House can hardly be seen as the socialist paradise some provincial thinkers make it out to be.