Spokane Update: MLK Day Bomber Indeed Tied to White Supremacy 03/15/2011

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Kevin William Harpham

March 9, 2011, Gene Johnson and Nicholas K. Geranios of the Associated Press and the News Tribune reported that an arrest had been made in connection with the bomb found on the parade route at Spokane’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration.

Kevin William Harpham, 36, who the Southern Poverty Law Center recorded as being associated with the neo-Nazi National Alliance, and who federal agents describe as a white supremacist, is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and possessing an unregistered explosive device.  

As Jessica Robinson’s March 14th OPB News article elaborates, the pseudonym that Harpham used on neo-nazi forums, “Joe Snuffy,” was very active in online white supremacist circles, writing about “race wars and The Turner Diaries.”  In addition to his ties to the National Alliance and his online neo-nazi activity, Harpham reportedly sought out a North Idaho Aryan Nations group requesting information.