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| Joe | Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 09:18 |
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 Level: 8 CS Original | SPOKANE, Wash. – Federal agents are investigating race as a possible motive behind an abandoned backpack containing a functional bomb after it was left along the downtown route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade. "The confluence of the holiday, the march and the device is inescapable, but we are not at the point where we can draw any particular motive," said Frank Harrill, special agent in charge of the Spokane FBI office. The suspicious backpack was spotted by three city employees about an hour before the parade was to start Monday, Harrill said. They saw wires and immediately alerted law enforcement, who disabled it without incident, he said. The discovery before the parade for the slain civil rights leader raised the possibility of a racial motive in a region that has been home to the white supremacist Aryan Nations. Spokane Mayor Mary Verner said the attempted bombing was unacceptable. "I was struck that on a day when we celebrate Dr. King, a champion of non-violence, we were faced with a significant violent threat," Verner said. "This is unacceptable in our community, or any community." The Spokane region and adjacent northern Idaho have had numerous incidents of anti-government and white supremacist activity during the past three decades. The most visible was by the Aryan Nations, whose leader Richard Butler gathered racists and anti-Semites at his compound for two decades. Butler was bankrupted and lost the compound in a civil lawsuit in 2000 and died in 2004. In December, a man in Hayden, Idaho, built a snowman on his front lawn shaped like a member of the Ku Klux Klan holding a noose. The man knocked the pointy-headed snowman down after getting a visit from sheriff's deputies. Harrill decried the planting of the bomb as an act of domestic terrorism that was clearly designed to advance a political or social agenda. "The potential for injury and death were clearly present," he said of the bomb. The FBI received no warnings in advance and did not have a suspect, Harrill said. No one has claimed responsibility for planting the bomb. The federal agency has offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case. | |||||
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| Wolf Bird | Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 09:52 |
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 I shoot you dead. Level: 9 CS Original | I wonder if CTers will make this a CT, and how they will do it. | |||||
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| Ez | Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 11:36 |
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 Level: 3 CS Original | It was a false flag! | |||||
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| Agent Matt | Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 18:25 |
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 Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | FBI: MLK Day Parade Bomb Is 'Domestic Terrorism' A bomb found on the route of a Martin Luther King Day parade in Spokane, Wash., was left in an act of "domestic terrorism," an FBI spokesman said today. "Clearly the confluence of the parade route, the timing, the fact that the device was likely placed on that route roughly an hour before the parade ... falls squarely within the realm of domestic terrorism," Frank Harrill, the special agent in charge of FBI operations in Spokane, told TPM. Harrill said the FBI isn't ready to assign any motive to whoever left the bomb. Nor do they have a suspect, he said, although the agency does have "a number of important, fruitful leads" from the public. On Monday morning, about half an hour before the parade was to begin, three city workers found a backpack in a parking lot along the parade route, close to wear marchers would have assembled. They called the police, who sealed off several blocks, called in the FBI and rerouted the parade. The backpack was packed with T-shirts and an incendiary device that "did appear to be viable" and could have caused multiple casualties, according to the FBI. "This entire event and potential tragedy was averted by three alert citizens who confronted what they knew to be out of place, [leading to] an entire professional sequence of events," Harrill said. Spokane Police were again today responding to reports of a suspicious package, this time a suitcase sitting on a sidewalk. A police spokeswoman said it does not appear to be another bomb, but they're taking every precaution. "In this era, you can't ignore that," Harrill said. "It regrettably does require this kind of response because, occasionally, it will be something far more nefarious." | |||||
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