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My fear is that these ‘fake’ bomb threats are being done to watch the evacuation response. And that someone is watching to determine the best means of attack.

It’s a common tactic, fake threat to create a response, use response to fake attack to plan best means of attack.

I notied that the first two fake threats were called in universities withing easy driving distance to a porous border. That is what first activated my JDLR detector.

My wife got a call from our oldest who attends LSU. I’m going to have a talk with her, and tell her if there is another threat, and she is inside a building, to stay where she is. Or if she is outside, or forced to evacuate, do not follow the crowd. Evacuate in a direction that others are not going. And to try to head in a direction that has lots of cover - trees, cars, buildings...

When people evacuate, they don’t tend to have an idea of where to go, so they end up simply following those in front of them. This leads to large streams of people, and these would be ideal places to attack. A bomb in a building might be able to kill a dozen people, but a man with an automatic weapon, positioned inside a stream of evacuating students could kill hundreds. And multiple attackers with overlaping fields of fire could cause that number to grow exponentially.

I hope that there are people (government intelligence) looking through security videos to see if there was anyone surveilling the evacuation.