Terrorism Close Calls: Martin Luther King Day Plot

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Kevin Harpham, a thirty-seven-year-old with strong ties to white supremacists planned a to kill and maim as many people as he could during the Martin Luther King Day Parade in Spokane, Washington. Harpham carefully planted a pipe-bomb into the most crowded area of the parade route –it was intended to explode and hurl poison-laced shrapnel from fishing weights and rat poison into the crowd. He would return two hours later with a remote-controlled detonator and video camera hoping to film the carnage, instead he found the backpack being disassembled by the FBI bomb squad. A seven-week manhunt ensued as FBI traced every lead along with Harpham’s communications to conduct a complex sting operation to capture and arrest him before he could strike again.