Evacuation Squad: Pro-Putin online group claims responsibility for school bomb threats in England

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Source: Independent UK

A group claiming to behind hoax bomb threats at dozens of schools in England and France is taking “requests” to cause evacuations at schools, offices, courts and sporting events across the world.

The "evacuators", as they have been calling themselves, have had their Twitter account suspended but continue to operate using online messaging and email. A mission statement was posted on the internet shortly after 6am on Tuesday morning, inviting people to “send in requests for your school/work/business/etc to be sent a bomb threat”.

“Hello, and we are EvacuationSquad,” it read. “We do what we do for a few reasons: We hate the American government,we hate authority and we LOVE to cause mayhem.”

The post gave contact details including an email address with a .ru Russian domain and XMPP messaging address ending .su – the country code assigned for the Soviet Union which has since become a “haven” for cyber criminals.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/evacuation-squad-pro-putin-online-group-claims-responsibility-for-school-bomb-threats-in-england-and-a6838856.html

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“We do what we do for a few reasons: We hate the American government"

[Bad Dog]

1. I only know about the bomb threats to English schools because of DU.

This is not a story, it's not even on the BBC main page. If schools had been shut down, we would have heard of it. I don't think anyone considered it credible. There's no mayhem, it's a dead loss.

[Bad Dog]

2. Both of these stories made the BBC website front page today.

And are considered more newsworthy.

A man was found with 38 mobile phones stuffed down his trouser legs at a Libertines concert, police say.

West Midlands Police said the man was spotted at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham on Wednesday evening with his trouser legs taped at the bottom.

Polecats, which were almost wiped out in Britain in the last century, have made a remarkable comeback, conservationists say.

The results of a nationwide survey reveal that the animals are spreading into areas where they have not been seen for 100 years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk

[Nihil]

3. Neither of those (or any of the other real news stories) ...

... could possibly be linked to Putin in a negative fashion so don't expect
the OP to even consider them as "news" - that DU account is purely for
anti-Putin posts ...

[Bad Dog]

4. Putin is well corrupt.

There was a brilliant BBC documentary on him on Monday. Pretty much everyone who served with him in St Petersburg now has a top job either in government or in oil/gas. Roman Abramovich had to give him a £35 million yacht, and he's got a mansion in Spain. His beak isn't just wet, it's drenched. That much is obvious.

This story isn't news in Britain because it's a non starter, nothing happened. It has nothing to do with whether or not Putin was behind it. If he was it's nothing compared to what we know he has done.

[Sunlei]

7. If times get hard again, perhaps there will be a surge in polecat pets to find food.

[elias49]

5. Ha. It just doesn't flush

[Sunlei]

6. I don't think society gives much weight or worry to a couple twits on twitter.