Thursday, June 20, 2013

Bomb threat made on behalf of Ft. Hood Islamic mass murderer, says court should meet killer's demands or bomb will go off in courthouse

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6/19/13, "Bomb threat made at courthouse near Fort Hood," AP via Houston Chronicle, Belton, Texas

"Someone threatened to bomb a county courthouse near Fort Hood unless officials met the "demands" of the Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 shooting rampage on the Texas Army post, a sheriff said Wednesday.

After the Wednesday morning call that mentioned Maj. Nidal Hasan, law officers evacuated the historic courthouse and Bell County Justice Center, but found nothing after searching extensively with bomb-sniffing dogs, Bell County Sheriff Eddy Lange said. The jail was put on lockdown.

Employees were allowed back inside the buildings a few hours later. The time that the caller said the bomb would explode at the courthouse had long expired, said city of Belton spokesman  Paul Romer. Bell County has a contract with nearby Fort Hood to house all of its defendants, including Hasan, because the Army post does not have holding facilities." via Atlas Shrugs



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