<p>Eugenio Parades boarded a city bus late Saturday holding a bag with "wires exposed that looked like (an explosive) device," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Tony Moore yesterday.<br /><br />The 62-year-old "was making threats toward the driver," he added without providing further details.<br /><br />According to a bus passenger, green and gray wires were protruding from the bag, to which an object resembling a countdown device was attached.<br /><br />The bus was evacuated and it took authorities four hours to determine that the bag was harmless.<br /><br />Paredes was arrested at the site on suspicion of making a terrorist threat and possessing a hoax device, Sheriff's Deputy Guillermina Saldana said.<br /><br />Meanwhile, officials shut down part of a terminal and the main access road at the Kansas City, Missouri airport yesterday after screeners spotted a suspicious items in a carry-on bag.<br /><br />The bag's owner was "uncooperative," prompting officials to detain him and call in the bomb squad, airport spokesman Joe McBride told AFP.<br /><br />"The devices have been checked out and there's no explosives, so at this point we're awaiting the all-clear," McBride said.<br /><br />In several ceremonies held under tight security, the United States was commemorating the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks as officials warned of a new terrorism threat.<br /><br />Washington's Dulles Airport was partially evacuated for four hours on the eve of the anniversary Saturday after a suspicious object was found. The alert was subsequently lifted.</p>
<p>Eugenio Parades boarded a city bus late Saturday holding a bag with "wires exposed that looked like (an explosive) device," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Tony Moore yesterday.<br /><br />The 62-year-old "was making threats toward the driver," he added without providing further details.<br /><br />According to a bus passenger, green and gray wires were protruding from the bag, to which an object resembling a countdown device was attached.<br /><br />The bus was evacuated and it took authorities four hours to determine that the bag was harmless.<br /><br />Paredes was arrested at the site on suspicion of making a terrorist threat and possessing a hoax device, Sheriff's Deputy Guillermina Saldana said.<br /><br />Meanwhile, officials shut down part of a terminal and the main access road at the Kansas City, Missouri airport yesterday after screeners spotted a suspicious items in a carry-on bag.<br /><br />The bag's owner was "uncooperative," prompting officials to detain him and call in the bomb squad, airport spokesman Joe McBride told AFP.<br /><br />"The devices have been checked out and there's no explosives, so at this point we're awaiting the all-clear," McBride said.<br /><br />In several ceremonies held under tight security, the United States was commemorating the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks as officials warned of a new terrorism threat.<br /><br />Washington's Dulles Airport was partially evacuated for four hours on the eve of the anniversary Saturday after a suspicious object was found. The alert was subsequently lifted.</p>