BabushkaLady
9th March 2011, 02:58 PM
I caught the media on the side of the road on my way up from the big town today. When this first happened, the "backpack" actually had t-shirts from small-town local events. I figured this was a set-up or someone trying to send the feds up this way. Would anyone be stupid enough to leave that kind of evidence? . . . very very interesting.
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UPDATE: The suspect has been identified as 36-year-old Kevin Harpham of Addy, Washington. Harpham is expected to appear in Federal Court sometime today. It's not clear if there are any other suspects.
SPOKANE, Wash. – Federal authorities have arrested at least one person allegedly connected to a backpack bomb found during a Martin Luther King parade in January. Federal agents called the backpack bomb an act of "domestic terrorism" and their agency's highest priority in the Spokane area.
Viewers in Stevens County told KHQ at least nine FBI vehicles sped towards a house near Highway 395 south of Colville. At least two counter-assault vehicles were also at the house, according to the viewer.
City workers found a suspicious backpack along a parade route on Martin Luther King day where thousands of people were scheduled to march.
Authorities later determined the backpack contained a bomb at least one agent described as, "the most sophisticated" he had ever seen.
http://www.khq.com/Global/story.asp?S=14218354
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UPDATE: The suspect has been identified as 36-year-old Kevin Harpham of Addy, Washington. Harpham is expected to appear in Federal Court sometime today. It's not clear if there are any other suspects.
SPOKANE, Wash. – Federal authorities have arrested at least one person allegedly connected to a backpack bomb found during a Martin Luther King parade in January. Federal agents called the backpack bomb an act of "domestic terrorism" and their agency's highest priority in the Spokane area.
Viewers in Stevens County told KHQ at least nine FBI vehicles sped towards a house near Highway 395 south of Colville. At least two counter-assault vehicles were also at the house, according to the viewer.
City workers found a suspicious backpack along a parade route on Martin Luther King day where thousands of people were scheduled to march.
Authorities later determined the backpack contained a bomb at least one agent described as, "the most sophisticated" he had ever seen.
http://www.khq.com/Global/story.asp?S=14218354