Schools Get Threats, Texas Says

While schools throughout Texas were being warned Wednesday about a vague threat in retaliation for the U.S. bombing in Afghanistan, officials in Nevada denied there were similar threats there.

Texas officials said they had received a threat about two people possibly attacking an unidentified school and that Nevada also received similar threats.

But while Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Thomas Davis Jr. named Nevada as being threatened, an FBI agent in Las Vegas called reports of threats against Nevada schools “totally and completely uncorroborated.”

“There’s nothing substantiated. There are no specific threats or targets,” said Special Agent Gayle Jacobs, spokeswoman for the Las Vegas FBI office. The southern Nevada office also covers northern Nevada.

Frank Siracusa, head of Nevada’s Emergency Management Division, and Greg Bortolin, Gov. Kenny Guinn’s press secretary, said they had heard nothing about a threat to Nevada.

In Reno, Deputy Police Chief Jim Weston said his department had received no notification of any sort of school threats similar to the Texas case.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry called the threat “low-level” and said, “I believe Texas is safe and our schools are safe.”

“The FBI considers it to be a low-level threat. Nonetheless, I believe it’s important that school officials are notified and that parents, teachers, administrators and law enforcement personnel are extra vigilant,” Perry said.