Yesterday, reports former police chief Jim Kouri, the FBI arrested Mahtab Shirani, a Muslim woman enrolled at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Shirani is alleged to have sent an anonymous e-mail to a university administrator threatening a repeat of the shooting incident that had taken place the previous day at Northern Illinois University. The threat stated that a group of five individuals would carry out the attack sometime during the spring 2008 semester.

The FBI praised the campus police department and the administrative staff for dealing with the threat professionally and expeditiously. Kudos to both the campus police and the FBI for preventing a potential terrorist act as well as alarm on campus.