KXLY gives extensive details on the FBI hunt for a person who tried to bomb the MLK holiday parade in Spokane:
From north to Colville, to the top of the Parkade in downtown Spokane and down south to Lewiston, federal agents cast a wide net as they chased down clues in the wake of the attempted bombing of the Unity March last Monday.
The way they describe the bomb reminds me of improvised explosives that a friend of mine in the U.S. Army used to tell stories about — part of his training for NATO operations in the 1980s.
Not far away the same news team found a receipt from a Lewiston sporting goods store. The FBI was notified, and they felt the receipt was a significant find because at the store a person could purchase black powder which could be used to power a bomb. That same store also sells ball bearings that could have been used as shrapnel to make that bomb even more lethal.
Because the bomb did not explode, it becomes a wealth of clues for the investigation.
A surveillance system could have helped, but it was offline at the time.
Members of the JTTF hoped the Parkade’s surveillance system may have picked up images of the drivers who used the garage Monday morning. Unfortunately, the security department was switching between servers at the time and the video not recorded.
I suspect they will be re-engineering that system with some redundancy now so that it does not go offline when they switch servers.
it is identicle to what insurgents are useing today against NATO forces in afghanistan my friends.
Identical how? I mean we could also say it is identical to what NATO forces were trained to develop and use in the 1980s against the Soviets — improvised explosives made from what they found laying around. What else makes it identical?