University of Texas (Austin)/NDSU orders evacuation of all buildings due to threats.

[momtective]

Protesters set fire to U.S. school in Tunis
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/14/us-protests-tunisia-school-idUSBRE88D13D20120914

Connected? :waitasec:

 

[SurfieTX]

UPDATE: UT buildings will reopen at 12 p.m., but all afternoon classes are cancelled. Other afternoon activities will resume at 5 p.m... More on KHOU.com...

http://www.facebook.com/KHOU11

 

[fhc]

Text just sent by UT to students " buildings may be re entered today at noon, todays classes are canceled, and all other activities will resume at 5:00pm"

 

[fhc]

AP: "No bombs found" (so far).

Makes me wonder if they are flooding LE and various campuses with fake threats, and the real threat is somewhere else. If everybody's watching campuses, who's watching everywhere else?

Oh, look, it seems I have been infected with post-9/11 paranoia, LOL.

It makes one wonder if this was a test to see how long an evacuation would take and if a threat would be considered serious, what amount of time before warnings are issued from time of threat.

 

[fhc]

http://www.facebook.com/KHOU11

wow, it appears KHOU got it before the students or was that posted to FB by a student?

Maybe there was some delay between when son's gf got the text and texted me then I came immediately to computer, logged on and posted before seeing your post.

 

[Sassygerl]

What's creepy is the staff wasn't notified till 25 minutes or so after the threat was made. I also worry about a threat being called in to get those 50,000 kids out on the street. Scary!

 

[wfgodot]

It makes one wonder if this was a test to see how long an evacuation would take and if a threat would be considered serious, what amount of time before warnings are issued from time of threat.

Sure has some earmarks of what might be a test:

• Happened on a Friday early in the semester; classes won't be too affected by cancellations

• Conditions in the Mid-East at this time make the threat one which is entirely believable

• News sources apparently had very early word about the threat

• Threats issued at about the same time to both schools; reports suggest both callers claimed to be Al-Qaeda

• Both schools have two campuses - in Austin, the main campus and the JJ Pickles Research Campus; in Fargo, the main and the downtown campus

• Two very different schools, UT-Austin and NDSU - thus perhaps different kinds of response....

• ....yet similar as well, as almost a straight line - within about a hundred miles - can be drawn between Austin and Fargo, with students from both sides of that line attending each school, creating a statistical similarity

 

[momtective]

Sure has some earmarks of what might be a test:

• Happened on a Friday early in the semester; classes won't be too affected by cancellations

• Conditions in the Mid-East at this time make the threat one which is entirely believable

• News sources apparently had very early word about the threat

• Threats issued at about the same time to both schools; reports suggest both callers claimed to be Al-Qaeda

• Both schools have two campuses - in Austin, the main campus and the JJ Pickles Research Campus; in Fargo, the main and the downtown campus

• Two very different schools, UT-Austin and NDSU - thus perhaps different kinds of response....

• ....yet similar as well, as almost a straight line - within about a hundred miles - can be drawn between Austin and Fargo, with students from both sides of that line attending each school, creating a statistical similarity

I think we are in serious trouble. jmo

 

[Gardenlady]

Al Qaeda generally does not give a warning before an attack, as other organizations have done, do they?

Just thinking out loud. Hard to say yet whether this is a hoax, a dry run, or something else... But I do tend to doubt it's AQ.

 

[wfgodot]

I should have clarified above that if this were a test, it was a test by our government to determine and make better the responses in a real-time scenario.

Or not, or not.

 

[Betty P]

Why those two universities and no others?

Muslims worldwide are upset at the horrible anti-muslim video produced in the U.S. by right wing religious fanatics. While their violence is wrong and their anger misdirected, its no surprise that Muslims are voicing dissent against westerners.

My gut reaction to the campus bomb threats is that they're empty threats, the work of angry Muslim students. Perhaps those US campuses were targeted because their students and communities have bad records for showing hostility towards Muslim students. IOW, campuses having problems w/ racism against Muslims are more likely to be targeted.

 

[SurfieTX]

Sept. 17, 2012, there was a bomb threat at LSU. Looks like they have arrested someone. Not sure if it is related.

LSU officials say they'd made an arrest after a phone-in bomb threat led to the evacuation of thousands of people from the campus on September 17th.

LSU Police Capt. Corey Lalonde said university police arrested a male early Wednesday. He said the suspect is not an LSU student and is not affiliated with the university.

http://www.wtva.com/news/national/s...st-in-bomb-threat/v_6wsvHh5kW7b3gnMnxVfA.cspx