Terrorism

Spokane Official: MLK Day Bomb May Have Been Filled With Rat Poison

Rachel Slajda | January 26, 2011, 11:44AM

The FBI released photos of the backpack and the T-shirts inside.

The bomb found along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., may have been packed with a blood-thinning chemical that's found in rat poison in an effort to inflict worse injuries.

Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told the Spokesman-Review that the bomb -- which officials have already described as sophisticated, with the potential to be devastating -- had some sort of chemical in it, and authorities have speculated that it may be a chemical found in rat poison. The bomb, which was defused without incident last Monday, has been sent for testing to a lab at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va..

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Terrorism

Aryan Nations: We Didn't Plant MLK Parade Bomb. We're Waiting For The Race War (VIDEO)

Rachel Slajda | January 25, 2011, 10:47AM

Morris Gulett, leader of the Aryan Nations

The leader of the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist group once strong in the Northwest, has condemned the planting of a bomb along the route of a Martin Luther King Day parade in Spokane, Wash., and says his group isn't responsible.

Morris Gulett, the leader of the group, said in a six-minute video press release that he condemns any violence that could harm innocent children.

"We absolutely do not condone this type of activity, but emphatically do condemn the use of force and terror," he said. Gulett said he was responding to those who've speculated that the Aryan Nations was responsible for the bomb.

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Alabama

New Alabama Governor: Only Christians Are My Brothers And Sisters

Eric Lach | January 18, 2011, 11:46AM

Gov. Robert Bentley (R-AL)

Speaking on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the very church where Dr. King once pastored, new Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley gave a speech in which he said that those who have not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior are not his "brothers."

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Brett Reese

CO School Board Member Gets Threats Over Anti-MLK Broadcasts

Rachel Slajda | January 12, 2011, 8:30AM

Inset: Greeley-Evans school board member Brett Reese

A school board member in Greeley, Colo., has started bringing his gun to school board meetings after, he says, he received threats over his regular radio broadcasts attacking the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Brett Reese, who owns and manages a local radio station, plays the same commentary twice a day, every day. The commentary, which he reads, calls King a "sexual degenerate," an "America-hating communist" and a "plastic god."

He describes it as a letter he received from a listener three years ago. It can also be found on a web site, martinlutherking.org, which is run by the white supremacist group Stormfront.

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