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FBI Probes Racial Link in Bomb Scare

   VOA News  19 January 2011

   U.S.  federal  investigators  are  probing  what they say is an act of
   domestic  terrorism, after a bomb was found along a parade marking the
   holiday for slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
   A  backpack  containing  the  explosive device was found Monday in the
   city of Spokane, in the northwestern state of Washington.
   The head of the FBI office in the region, Frank Harrill, said the bomb
   was  potentially  deadly,  and  called the incident an act of domestic
   terrorism that was meant to advance a political or social agenda.
   Harrill  said  agents  have not yet determined a motive, but recognize
   that  it  could  be  linked  to  the federal holiday honoring King, an
   African-American who was assassinated in 1968.
   A  number  of  racist  groups  operate in and around the Spokane area,
   including the white supremacist Aryan Nations.