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| Threat against Los Angeles skyscraper false |
| 2002-07-02 |
| A phone threat warning that a plane would strike the city's second-tallest skyscraper prompted a voluntary evacuation that included employees of a company that lost workers in the Sept. 11 attacks. The call was traced by the FBI and found to be without merit, FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley said. Bosley declined to disclose the caller's name. I hope they're not done hitting him yet... Oh. Sorry. We don't do that. Fly the bastard to Morocco, or Syria and let them hit him... The 62-story Aon Center notified the 70 companies that employ approximately 3,200 people in the building about the voluntary evacuation. Aon Corp., the building's largest tenant, with 833 workers, closed its offices for the day, Aon Center general manager Peter Anastassiou said. Aon lost 175 employees in the attack on the World Trade Center in New York. The threat was called in to KABC-TV in Los Angeles suggesting the station train its camera on the "First Interstate building" because an aircraft would fly into it. Aon Center also is known as the First Interstate Tower. "Interrogation? Why, no. He don't know nuttin'. We're just workin' him over. Hand me those pliers, wouldja?" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Lovely. Just what we didn't need. If there was a remote shred of truth to this, we'd be seeing a mass exit on the I-10 the likes of something no one has seen before. Mary Lu |
| Posted by: Mary Lu 2002-07-02 16:29:35 |