Magazine insert prompts courthouse bomb scare in Idaho

[hedgehog]

1. "An excess of caution" has to be put into the context that

there are a lot of anti-government/survivalist types running around in the area.


Good thing there was "an excess of caution" in this case:

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.

Officials praised as heroes the three city workers who spotted the backpack about an hour before the parade was to start on Jan. 17. They looked inside, saw wires and immediately alerted law enforcement.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41991581/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts