Arrest made in MLK parade bomb plot
Not all terrorists are named Mahmoud... | SPOKANE, Wash. A man with ties to the white supremacist movement was arrested and charged Wednesday in the foiled bombing of a Martin Luther King Day parade in this city last January.
Kevin William Harpham, of the Colville area in northeastern Washington, was charged with one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and one count of possessing an unregistered explosive device.
At a brief court appearance, Harpham waived a bail hearing and will remain in the Spokane County Jail for now. He can request a bail hearing at a later date, or wait until a grand jury decides on March 22 if he will be indicted.
Harpham, 36, was a member of the white supremacist National Alliance in 2004, said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups.
The SPLC being quite a hate group itself, IMO, so it knows something about this... | But the center doesn't know when Harpham joined the group or whether he left it.
Posted by: Steve White 2011-03-13 |