Looks like somebody planted a bomb intended to kill MLK marchers in Spokane Washington

[Bill8]

Well this is pretty fucking crazy.

A backpack bomb apparently was found, apparently intended to kill Martin Luther King paraders.

At least that's what I think this article is saying.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/201...oute-was-bomb/

As Reiswig and her co-workers snapped photos of the police robot examining the backpack at the northeast corner of Washington Street and Main Avenue, posting some of them to their Facebook pages, the Spokane bomb squad was coming to a frightening realization. The backpack was equipped with a powerful bomb, positioned to inflict maximum blast damage toward the intended route of Spokane?s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day march through downtown.

?Then we saw the officer in a bomb suit. At that point, we decided that maybe we should back away from the windows,? she said.

The FBI confirmed Tuesday that the Swiss Army-brand backpack contained a bomb that could have caused ?multiple casualties? and credited Spokane city employees who noticed the suspicious bag and alerted authorities in time to re-route the parade. A $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

?It definitely was, by all early analysis, a viable device that was very lethal and had the potential to inflict multiple casualties,? said Frank Harrill, the special agent in charge of the Spokane FBI office. ?Clearly, the timing and placement of a device ? secreted in a backpack ? with the Martin Luther King parade is not coincidental. We are doing everything humanly possible to identify the individuals or individual who constructed and placed this device.?

Harrill wouldn?t disclose specific details about the bomb.

But two security sources, who did not want to be named because they were not authorized to discuss the case, told The Spokesman-Review that they received a briefing Tuesday suggesting that the bomb was equipped to detonate by a remote device, such as a car remote or a garage door opener. The bomb apparently also had its own shrapnel that could have caused significant injuries to anyone near the blast.

Investigators were also concerned that the placement of the backpack ? on a metal bench with a brick wall behind it ? would have directed any blast toward marchers in the street.

?I think the link to the Martin Luther King celebration and march is inescapable,? Harrill said. ?At that point, it falls directly in the realm and sphere of domestic terrorism. Clearly, there was some political or social agenda here.?

google news and the big news media are starting to fill up with articles about it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41139894...me_and_courts/

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