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News & ArtsTuesday, January 18, 2011
News Bomb Found Along Spokane MLK Parade Route
Posted by Eli Sanders on Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:02 PM
The Seattle office of the FBI says that a "deadly destructive device, likely capable of inflicting multiple casualties" was found yesterday inside a backpack left near the route of Spokane's Martin Luther King Day parade.
The FBI released the following picture of the backpack and some of its contents:
- Seattle FBI Office
As a part of this ongoing investigation, the FBI is seeking any information regarding the identity of the person or persons that may have been seen with this backpack from approximately 8:00 a.m. to 9:25 a.m. on Monday, 1/17/2011. If anyone has any information regarding this incident, they are requested to immediately contact the FBI. In addition, if anyone took photographs or video in the area of N. Washington Street and W. Main Avenue from approximately 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., they are also requested to contact the FBI as soon as possible.SUBJECT(S) SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS
CONTACT THE FBI AT: Telephone (206)622-0460; Email seattle.fbi@ic.fbi.gov; Fax (206)262-2587
More from MSNBC:
The FBI has refused to discuss how the bomb was constructed. "Suffice it to say it was of grave concern," Frank Harrell of the FBI's Spokane office told NBC News."You could describe it as an improvised destructive device ... or improvised explosive device," Harrell said.
Area workers initially reported the suspicious package to Spokane police. The march was slightly re-routed and delayed because of the bomb scare.
"The three contract workers in the area who were there are unsung heroes," the FBI spokesman said.
The FBI has not established an official motive, but told NBC News "the timing and placement of the backpack (along the march route) is inescapable." No threats or warnings were issued before the march.
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But it'll just be another loner, no political motivation whatsoever, nothing to see here, move along.
Tucson was just the beginning.
Tucson was just the beginning.
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Tucson wasn't the start- in 2008 there was a bombing here in Oregon by some Right Wingnuts that left two police officers dead, and of course there was that fellow who flew the plane into an IRS building in Texas last year, killing himself and a federal employee.
People are just starting to pay attention because a little kid was killed and someone with a higher profile ended up in the ICU.
People are just starting to pay attention because a little kid was killed and someone with a higher profile ended up in the ICU.
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"Certainly just another product of our deficient mental health system, nothing more. If everyone in that parade had a gun they would've had nothing to worry about."
Was that OK? Did I make the talking points correctly?
Was that OK? Did I make the talking points correctly?
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If theres no political/ideological motive, and it ends up being (another) crazy, thats a pretty big coincidence - I'm willing to bet it was some white supremecist(s?) - for one thing, it was an MLK day parade, for another....aren't there a lot of white supremecists in that area?
course, it could be a totally nut job, a loner, not the slightest bit politically motivate - but I doubt that.
course, it could be a totally nut job, a loner, not the slightest bit politically motivate - but I doubt that.
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There are a series of unsolved/unexplained pipe bomb and fake bomb incidents in Moses Lake. Not Spokane, but Spokane is probably where you'd go from Moses lake to find a good-sized MLK parade.
On the other hand - literally - there's Idaho.
On the other hand - literally - there's Idaho.
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This is nothing new around here. If you're walking down the street and you're NOT scanning the area around you for bombs you are a fool indeed. Just google Spokane Bomb. It's frightening how many stories you will find.
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Spokane is quite close to Hayden Lake, ID, former white supremacist home base.
I once worked for an airline that flew out of Spokane, and all of our bomb threats and psychotic passengers seemed to originate there.
I once worked for an airline that flew out of Spokane, and all of our bomb threats and psychotic passengers seemed to originate there.
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According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Washington has 15 hate groups, Idaho has 9. Idaho also has a stereotype that Seattleites can't seem so see past...
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/ha…
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/ha…
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@ 20, if you look a bit more closely at the SPLC listing, 6 of the 9 Idaho groups are in Northern Idaho, 2 of the 15 Washington groups are in Eastern Wa.
One of the Eastern Wa groups Is an splinter of an earlier Northern Idaho group (or vise-versa).
Not to excuse Washington loons and goons, especially Western Washington ones, but that Idaho stereotype has been goin on at least since the 70s when I was growing up in that neck of the woods.
One of the Eastern Wa groups Is an splinter of an earlier Northern Idaho group (or vise-versa).
Not to excuse Washington loons and goons, especially Western Washington ones, but that Idaho stereotype has been goin on at least since the 70s when I was growing up in that neck of the woods.
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THIS IS TERRORISM. I hope the FBI finds the person or people responsible and puts them away for a long time.
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