Louisiana student charged with threatening Clinton

BATON ROUGE, La., May 6 (Reuters) A Louisiana State University student has been jailed on charges that he threatened to blow up US Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton during a campaign stop in Baton Rouge, police said.

The student, 19-year-old freshman Richard Ryan Wargo, was arrested on Thursday after a fellow student reported he said he wanted to kill Clinton, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination and spoke yesterday to the National Conference of Black Mayors in the Louisiana capital.

A state judge set bail at one million dollar.

''He was thinking about blowing somebody up. Then he kept talking and said he was talking about blowing up Senator Clinton here in Baton Rouge,'' LSU police spokesman Lawrence Rabalais told Reuters yesterday.

The Baton Rouge Advocate, citing the warrant authorizing the arrest, said he told his friend he wanted to commit an act of terrorism that would be a ''national event'' and involve Clinton.

He has been charged with terrorizing and several other crimes, including marijuana possession.

Rabalais said police put on extra security for the Clinton appearance, which went off without incident.

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