bomb atempt @ MLK parade spokane

[Sasha]

Bomb Found Along Spokane MLK Parade Route (http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/01/18/bomb-found-along-spokane-mlk-parade-route)

Posted by Eli Sanders (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/ArticleArchives?author=12168) 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:
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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 [email protected]; Fax (206)262-2587
More from MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41139894/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/from/toolbar):

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.




if anyone was around there this might be one of the few times its OK to help the feds...

[Aesop]

If Obama or the liberal media issue a statement on this, it will probably be something on the lines that perpetrators were just confused and deranged individuals rather than being a product of the violent right wing populist mantra in U.S. :glare:

[Amphictyonis]

White power movements are rampant in the north west.

[Frosty Weasel]

What power movements are rampant in the north west.Right-wing groups have traditionally found it hard to establish a foothold in the northwestern United States due to the generally progressive mindset of the area.

This was most likely a guy acting solo.

[Sasha]

dont know, in the comments to the article someone said that an christian right group before bombed an planned parenthood clinic in spokane.
also the splc lists several hate groups in WA including two in spokane: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=WA

[Amphictyonis]

Right-wing groups have traditionally found it hard to establish a foothold in the northwestern United States due to the generally progressive mindset of the area.

This was most likely a guy acting solo.

Volksfront/Washington.

[Frosty Weasel]

Volksfront/Washington. Eh? This is news to me.

[Pretty Flaco]

Fucking disgraceful.

[Ele'ill]

Portland in particular. Anti-fascist organizer was shot in an attempted offing about nine months ago.

http://rosecityantifa.weebly.com/

http://rosecityantifa.weebly.com/1/post/2010/4/local-anti-racist-shot-in-downtown-portland.html

[¿Que?]

Geez, that blows. I wanted to move up to that area cuz I thought it was full of leftists and I'm in the south, where the "milieu" is not as apparent.

[Ele'ill]

Geez, that blows. I wanted to move up to that area cuz I thought it was full of leftists and I'm in the south, where the "milieu" is not as apparent.

There are a lot of leftists.

[Rusty Shackleford]

wasnt there a strategy on the far right in the 80s/90s to populate the north west due to its "whiteness" and to try to build the right there? my impression was that the west coast in general, especially california, has its fair share of nazis.

[Amphictyonis]

wasnt there a strategy on the far right in the 80s/90s to populate the north west due to its "whiteness" and to try to build the right there? my impression was that the west coast in general, especially california, has its fair share of nazis.

The California juvenile halls, county jails and prison systems have created a large population of racists but a stratigic 'move up north' of sorts did take place and is still taking place. There's a large number of leftists up north so it can get kinda sticky at times (so I hear).

[9]

wasnt there a strategy on the far right in the 80s/90s to populate the north west due to its "whiteness" and to try to build the right there?

I assume you're thinking of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territorial_Imperative

[Sasha]

I assume you're thinking of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territorial_Imperative

the idea was disbanded when some idiot guards at the aryan nations compound shot up an passing by familly. the survivors together with the SPLC sued the aryan nations, bankrupting them and taking their compound. they than gave the compound to the fire brigade for practise who burned it to the ground :thumbup:

[Sasha]

update:

Bomb found along Spokane's MLK parade route had remote detonator

Investigators pursued what they described as promising leads Wednesday in a chilling bombing attempt at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane in which someone left a backpack filled with sophisticated explosives on a bench.
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Two T-shirts were contained within a backpack, center, along with a sophisticated remote-controlled bomb.



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SPOKANE — Investigators pursued what they described as promising leads Wednesday in a chilling bombing attempt at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in which someone left a backpack filled with sophisticated explosives on a bench.
An official familiar with the case said the bomb had a remote detonator and the ability to cause mass casualties. It was defused without incident Monday but unnerved residents of Spokane, especially those who took part in a parade whose theme was steeped in peace and nonviolence.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to release information about the investigation.
'Fruitful leads'
The FBI said it has no suspects. But Frank Harrill, special agent in charge of the Spokane FBI office, said Wednesday investigators are following up on "fruitful leads" they've received from the public. He declined to elaborate.
Harrill said the black Swiss Army backpack has been shipped to an FBI lab in Quantico, Va., for analysis. In addition to the bomb, the backpack contained two T-shirts that authorities were analyzing for clues.
Monday's parade route was changed after the bomb was found, and most of the several hundred people who marched in the annual event did not know about the device, said Liz Moore, one of the marchers.
"No announcements were made at all," Moore said. "It seems like a specific effort was made not to alarm people."
Domestic terrorism
Harrill called the bomb an act of domestic terrorism.
The bomb was spotted by three city employees about an hour before the parade was to start, Harrill said. They looked inside, saw wires and immediately alerted law enforcement.
The bomb was carefully placed on a metal bench with a brick wall behind that would have directed shrapnel toward Main Street, where marchers were expected to pass, investigators said.
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No one has claimed responsibility for planting the bomb, Harrill said.
The FBI released a photo of the backpack as it offered a $20,000 reward for information from the public. Also released were pictures of the T-shirts found in the pack. There was a gray T-shirt with writing for the Stevens County Relay for Life race last June. Stevens County is just north of Spokane County. The other dark T-shirt said "Treasure Island Spring 2009."
Investigators are seeking anyone who took photographs or video in the area between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. Monday.
Officials have praised as heroes the city workers who spotted the backpack.
Spokane County Commissioner Mark Richard, who spoke at the King celebration and did not learn of the bomb until later, expressed concern about the number of people who could have been injured or killed if it had detonated.
"Hundreds of people, including children, gathered to celebrate and recommit their lives to the cause of human rights," Richard said.
The attempted bombing on the day set aside to honor the slain civil-rights leader raised the possibility of a racial motive in a region that has been home to the white supremacist group Aryan Nations.
"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," Harrill said.
Spokane has 200,000 residents and is about 100 miles south of the Canadian border.
Another explosive device was found March 23 beside the Thomas S. Foley U.S. Courthouse in downtown Spokane. No arrests have been made in that investigation, and agents didn't know if the two incidents were related, Harrill said.
Regional incidents
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 more than two decades. Butler went bankrupt, lost the compound in a civil lawsuit in 2000 and died in 2004.
In 1996, white supremacists placed a pipe bomb outside City Hall in Spokane. The bomb exploded, blowing out a window and sending nails and screws across the street.
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.



http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013981237_mlkbomb20.html

[Rusty Shackleford]

i honestly wouldnt be surprised if it were some white supremacists.

[Sasha]

you can come up with anyone else who would want to put an fragmantation bomb at an MLK memorial march?

[Rusty Shackleford]

The Klan?

[Sasha]

arent they white supremacists as well?

[Rusty Shackleford]

Ku Klux Klan is basically an american fascist movement that originally started out as a protestant white male organization fighting the us government in the re-construction era(post civil war)

so yeah, they are white supremacist. though they now allow catholics in their organization.

stars, stripes, and a bible.

[La Comédie Noire]

The T-shirts are interesting, couldn't be false leads because they probably intended for the bomb to go off, thus destroying the contents inside.

Stevens County relay for life was held in Kansas. Whomever they were, they may have been walking in Kansas for a cure or known somebody who did.

-Snip-

Edit: It's also entirely possible they got the t shirt at a thrift store and could have absolutely nothing to do with them.