Right wing terrorist attempt to bomb Martin Luther King Parade

[Jeffersons Ghost]

'Domestic Terror': Bomb Found in Backpack Ahead of Spokane MLK Parade
By: Emily Rauhala

The F.B.I. says the device could have caused "multiple casualties." Thankfully, it was found — and diffused — before the march got underway.

In what feels like a callous affront to King's legacy of non-violence, an improvised bomb was placed along the Martin Luther King Day parade route in downtown Spokane, Washington on Monday.

The suspicious backpack, which contained an improvised explosive device (IED) and two t-shirts, was found less than an hour before the festivities began. The march was re-routed and the bomb diffused.

Given the timing and the placement of the bomb, the F.B.I. believes the motive was political: “We're certainly approaching it as a potential domestic terrorism event at this point,” said spokesman.“Whether the motive was racial or an individual was being targeted, it's too soon to say.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/19/domestic-terror-bomb-found-in-backpack-ahead-of-spokane-mlk-parade/#ixzz1BVCfxhny

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[pacalo]

11. From the LATimes...

The area has a history of white supremacist activity. Until 2001, the Aryan Nations was headquartered in nearby Hayden Lake, Idaho. As recently as April 2009, the Spokesman-Review newspaper reported that residents of a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, subdivision had found Aryan Nations recruitment letters on their lawns.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-0119-spokane-bomb-20110119,0,3022661.story

White supremists would not agree with Democratic values (tolerance with all ethnicities).

[OHdem10]

2. How long before we hear--This is not political.--Just another

nutcase and an sttempt to marginalize the FBI Agents involved?

[malaise]

3. K & R for your subject headline

Just the truth

[randr]

4. Just another isolated incident!!

[leftstreet]

5. There's something very strange about this story

The local news is reporting it differently

Cops find women's clothing in suspicious suitcase

January 19, 2011

SPOKANE, Wash -- Spokane Police said a suspicious suitcase near the intersection of Sprague and Cedar in Downtown Spokane contained only women's clothing.

http://www.nwcn.com/home/?fId=114213849&fPath=/news/local&fDomain=10222


Suspicious downtown suitcase contained clothes

Jan 19, 2011

Spokane police and the bomb squad investigated a suspicious package found this morning on a sidewalk near the Maple Street Bridge and Spokane’s historic Carnegie Library. Members of the Explosive Device Unit were called to the area to check out a black suitcase left upright on the concrete at the southwest corner of Sprague Avenue and Cedar Street shortly before 7:30 a.m.

A preliminary electronic scan indicated the suitcase was not a bomb, said Officer Jennifer DeRuwe, police spokeswoman. The case turned out to contain clothing, she said.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/jan/19/bomb-squad-investigating-item-downtown-spokane/

:shrug:

[BB1]

6. Huh? So what is it now?

Was there an explosive device or wasn't there? Women's clothes?
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Not bombs but thongs!

[leftstreet]

7. Yeah, pretty weird

The national M$M already reporting it as a bomb, but checking local media....not so much

Strange

[bobbolink]

10. So, it was "diffused" after all, rather than "defused"?

[pinboy3niner]

8. Different story. The first one was a backpack; new one is a suitcase. nt

[leftstreet]

9. Oh, duh!

You're right. Thanks!