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2016-12-07 Home Front: WoT

No evidence to verify bomb threat on L.A.'s subway system, investigators conclude

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Posted by trailing wife 2016-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 In full force, after the fact.
Mass transit is the new air transport target?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-07 02:27|| 2016-12-07 02:27|| Front Page Top

#2 The threat came in Monday for Tuesday, Skidmark. Here's how An Nahar reported it earlier in the day:

Security was boosted across the Los Angeles metro on Monday following a tip from overseas about a possible bomb attack against one of the stations in the network, authorities said.

The threat was relayed by an anonymous man who called a public safety line run by an unidentified foreign government, which then passed on the information to an FBI terrorism task force, said Deirdre Fike, assistant director in charge of the FBI's office in Los Angeles.

The target of the threatened attack was metro's Universal City station -- located near the Universal Studios theme park -- where the caller who spoke English said an explosive device would go off on Tuesday, Fike told reporters at a hastily organized press conference with local authorities.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-12-07 07:39|| 2016-12-07 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 thanks T.

My sleep infused remark targeted the manpower surge directed at control applied to the specific event triggered by a Australian tipline rather than analysis from predictive threat modeling. I can only assume some active agency was engaged by the phone call.

I don't know how effective a massive preventative effort can ever be against a such fluid threat other than for remediation efforts. I don't have access to past performance data, perhaps others do.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-07 11:30|| 2016-12-07 11:30|| Front Page Top

#4 The authorities (FBI, LAPD, LASO) responded accordingly IMHO. The info we had was specific as to date/place/method. With a very short time frame to work with, they really had no other options. There's more to the story but hopefully this one is over.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2016-12-07 22:17|| 2016-12-07 22:17|| Front Page Top

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