Possible Terror Attack on MLK Parade in Spokane Thwarted

[ck4829]

A backpack bomb with the potential of killing or injuring dozens of people was found Monday along the route of a Martin Luther King Day “unity march” in downtown Spokane, Wash., authorities said today.

“It was a device that clearly was intended to harm or kill people,’’said Frank Harrill, a senior FBI agent and spokesman for the bureau’s Inland Northwest Joint Terrorism Task Force.

The FBI posted a $20,000 reward Tuesday and released three photographs, including one of the black Swiss-Army backpack that contained the destructive device.

Harrill would not discuss the type of explosive or its construction, including whether the backpack contained an explosive shield intended to spray shrapnel toward potential victims. He also declined to say if the device was intended to be detonated remotely or by a timer.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/01/18/possible-terror-attack-on-mlk-parade-thwarted/

[onehandle]

1. Not 'possible.' Definite. nt

[upi402]

2. Wow, good news

Not gonna click the link, but good work if it is what it seems.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. The only thing that concerns me is that sooner or later

a device WILL go off.

[47of74]

4. Lemme guess...

:sarcasm: It was a liberal who planted the bomb, and the bomb planter has the full support of the Democratic party. :sarcasm: