Utah girl credited with alerting officials over alleged school bombing plot

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46161271/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

ROY, Utah — A 16-year-old Utah student who alerted a school administrator about a suspicious text message foiled plans by two schoolmates who apparently were plotting to set off a bomb during a school assembly and run away in a stolen airplane, police said.

The juvenile later told investigators he was so "fascinated" by that massacre that he visited the Littleton, Colo., school and interviewed the principal about the shootings that killed 13 people. Roy police said the principal, Frank DeAngelis, confirmed that the boy made his visit Dec. 12.

&quot He) told me he was offended that he was compared to the Columbine killers," said Roy police officer Tyler Tomlinson in an affidavit, according to Utah's KSL.com. "Joshua was offended by the fact that those killers only completed 1 percent of their plan and he was much more intelligent than that. ... (He) explained to me that he could complete his plan due to how intelligent he is."

The two students prepared by logging hundreds of hours on flight simulator software on their home computers, and they planned to take a plane at Ogden Hinckley Airport after the bombing, Bond said.

Both students had "absolute knowledge of the security systems and the layout of the school," Bond said. "They knew where the security cameras were. Their original plan was to set off explosives during an assembly. We don't know what date they were planning to do this, but they had been planning it for months."