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AP, Los Angeles

Several flights were grounded at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday after a man claimed to be a terrorist and made a bomb threat, police said.

No explosives were found on the man or in a backpack he had, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.

The man was identified as Scott Juhun Lee, 27, of Irvine, police Officer Jason Lee said. He was booked for investigation of making a false bomb threat and held on $20,000 bail.

Lee faces possible psychological evaluation and federal charges have not been ruled out, Eimiller said. Authorities say he walked up to an officer, dropped a backpack at his feet outside the international terminal and made threats.

"He said, 'I'm a terrorist, I've got a bomb in the bag and I'm going to blow it up now,'" airport police Sgt. Jim Holcomb told The Associated Press. Holcomb described the man as between 25 and 30 years old.

Holcomb said a police bomb squad squirted the bag with a water cannon and the bag did not explode.

Authorities shut down traffic near the airport's terminal 3 while the threat was investigated. Holcomb said flights at several terminals were also grounded but that normal operations resumed in the early afternoon.