GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING:FBI asks for KREM 2's help with backpack bomb investigation

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: KREM.com

25January2011 8:55amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  SPOKANE -- The FBI is turning to KREM 2 News for help one week after city workers discovered a bomb in Downtown Spokane.


Investigators are requesting all of KREM 2’s video to help piece together the domestic terrorism act. Agents will not comment on specifics of the investigation but they say they are looking at every shred of evidence behind the attempt to bomb the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day parade.


On Monday, our editors pieced together all of our footage from that day to give to the FBI.


Spokesperson Frank Harrill says this remains a very wide reaching investigation and any material either from the public or the media might help the FBI determine who deposited the device. (read full article)