FBI Awaiting Tests On The Bomb Along The Parade Route MLK In Washington
FBI special agent Frank Harrill said Wednesday he expects the investigation to be "long", adding that the agency is investigating the incident as "an act of domestic terrorism."
The gray backpack was found Monday on a bench at the northeast corner of Washington Street and West North Main Avenue in downtown Spokane, and asked the authorities to redirect the month of March.
He had received threats before the device was found and a note found in his backpack, Harrill said.
"Clearly it is no coincidence that lies along the road in March, he said." But it is premature to ascribe motive, whether racial or political or something else ".
The FBI has released photos of Swiss Army brand backpack, and two T-shirt found. A shirt that says "Treasure Island 2009" and the other reads, "Stevens County Relay For Life 25 to 26 June 2010."
Agency laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, also look at the clothes and explosives.
"We will not comment or try to rate the unit," Harrill said, without giving details of components and how it was built. "However, preliminary analysis reveals that the unit had the potential to be quite lethal."
The device was discovered Monday morning by three workers parade hours before the event, Harrill said.
"We have 2,000 people who participated in the march of" organizer Ivan Bush said. "Just the front line are children. One of our high school drum lines brought in March. We had a pre-school age children holding banners" Happy Birthday, Dr. King "on it."
Bush said he did not want to imagine what would happen, a backpack was not found.
"Again, we're talking about people's lives, we talk about children's lives," he said.
Officers are looking at the issue, but Harrill would not give details about the investigation which includes a $ 20,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible.
FBI asks public information on who may have been a pack of about 8:00 to 9:25 Monday. He also asked for photographs or videos taken in the field.
"The FBI came and interviewed me yesterday to see if I had seen something odd or suspicious (about) people who arrive with backpacks, as they do in a shop all the time," he said Janet Hutchinson, who works in a shop near where the bag was found. "But he had a very quiet morning, I had nothing to report."