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On Tuesday morning, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, a governmental agency which operates hundreds of schools in Los Angeles and nearby areas, sent all its students home. The agency did not make its buses available, but instead asked parents to pick up their children from outside the schools. Superintendent Ramon Cortines ordered all the schools in the district closed because of a threatening message regarding "many schools" which was received by a member of the school board. Cortines called the closure a "precaution based on what has happened recently." Police and the district's "plant managers" are searching the campuses.
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From Reuters:
The unprecedented move left some 643,000 students of the Los Angeles Unified School District and their families scrambling to make alternate arrangements and drew criticism as officials in New York said they received the same threat and deemed it not to be credible.
A law enforcement source told Reuters that Los Angeles authorities ordered the closure to allow a full search of about 900 public school facilities without consulting with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which takes the lead on any potential terrorism investigation.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday December 16 2015, @12:31PM
War with who? An idea?
Isis is just one embodiment of the idea of militant Islam. Boko Harem and Alquada, and the ones in Somalia are others.
Now if you wanted to declare war on the source of this - certainly sanctions, perhaps a blockade, I could be in favour of that. Blockading Saudi Arabia would cause a few problems with the world economy though.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday December 16 2015, @05:45PM
I guess I should have closed a sarc tag after the "boy".
The point does remain that their recruiting propaganda is the only weapon that those idiots have against the West (whatever presidential candidates claim). So we need to stop enabling them. If the networks were not driven by "these guys are scary" profits, they would do the right thing and stop aiding the otherwise quite incompetent Daesh.