Xanga blogger detained for threats against the US President

A Freeport, Pennsylvania Area High School student has been arrested following threats he made on against US President George W. Bush, other government officials and classmates on a Xanga Blog.

16-year-old Jeff Neely, a 10th-grader, has been detained in the Butler County Juvenile Center on charges of making terrorist threats.

The Valley News Dispatch reports
that the US Secret Service initiated the criminal investigation when it came across a message Neely posted on a blog at Xanga.com. The paper reports that it was unable to dtermine what had exactly been written.

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