Bomb Threats At 2 Universities; One Caller Claims To Be Al Qaeda

By Michael Muskal and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
Fri, 09/14/2012 - 9:22am

Two universities, in Texas and in North Dakota, ordered the evacuation of their campuses on Friday after receiving bomb threats.

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