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Showing Original Post only (View all)BREAKING NEWS. Per CNN, San Antonio Airport [View all]
evacuated due to bomb threats. According to the PIO for the airport the threat was specific, but refused to confirm where they got the call for.
Inbound planes are allowed to land, and kept on tarmac, while passengers are on the tarmac.
A little more specific information per USA today, via live blog
The San Antonio International Airport was evacuated after a bomb threat was called in.
Update at 4:10 p.m. ET: Citing sources, KENS-TV reports pieces of luggage in a parking garage area are being examined.
KSAT has a live stream.
Airport spokesman Rich Johnson said a "very specific threat" was called in around 2 p.m.
Original post: Both terminals of the San Antonio, Texas, airport have been evacuated after a bomb threat was called in, according to news reports.
Update at 4:10 p.m. ET: Citing sources, KENS-TV reports pieces of luggage in a parking garage area are being examined.
KSAT has a live stream.
Airport spokesman Rich Johnson said a "very specific threat" was called in around 2 p.m.
Original post: Both terminals of the San Antonio, Texas, airport have been evacuated after a bomb threat was called in, according to news reports.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/08/san-antonio-airport-evacuated-after-bomb-threat/1#.UBmPzTFYtBB
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Nadin, is there any connection to the date, August 1st? I don't remember one. Wingnuts like dates.
freshwest
Aug 2012
#13
Hell, yeah. Got caught in an American Airlines line up for over an hour in 100+ degree at DFW once.
freshwest
Aug 2012
#15
It was probably someone that wanted to squash the news of Dem Mayor Castro as keynote speaker
Tx4obama
Aug 2012
#29