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Report: White supremacist nabbed in Spokane MLK Day backpack bomb

I promised not to forget this story, and now there's news:

The FBI has made an arrest in connection with the attempted bombing along the route of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in downtown Spokane.

An FBI source in Washington, D.C., said one man was arrested Wednesday outside a home near Colville, Stevens County. Agents, including a bomb expert from Quantico, Va., were preparing to search a house where others associated with the suspect were living, the source said.

The suspect is believed to be affiliated with white supremacists, the source said.

I'll update the post when there's more info on the alleged perp. The arrest is the second piece of good news in this case -- the first being that the supposedly fairly sophisticated bomb, capable of causing mass casualties, was detected before it went off.