3 men who discovered bomb say they later lost jobs

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This story has false flag all over it.

Three cleanup workers who were hailed as heroes after finding a live bomb along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane said they later lost their jobs after supervisors questioned their handling of the situation.

The men were employed by Labor Ready and working under contract for the Spokane Public Facilities District when they found a backpack containing the bomb about an hour before the scheduled start of the Jan. 17 parade.

They alerted police, who were able to defuse the bomb.

"For the first two days, basically all we did was get chewed out," worker Mark Steiner told KHQ of Spokane. "We did this wrong. We did that wrong. I don't know what you consider calling 911 wrong after two minutes after we found it."

Steiner, Brandon Klaus and Sherman Welpton had been hired to perform cleanup work during the parade and noticed the backpack on an outdoor bench.

Officials for Labor Ready did not immediately return a telephone call from The Associated Press seeking comment.

Kevin Twohig, head of the public facilities district, said the three men were not punished by the district.

"They kept the incident from evolving into something much more dangerous," Twohig told The Spokesman-Review.

But he said there was concern "they were messing around with the bomb."

"I think they put themselves at more risk than they needed," Twohig said.

The identities of the men were withheld until suspect, Kevin William Harpham, 36, was arrested Wednesday near Addy.

Steiner told KHQ the three men were not trained to deal with suspicious packages.

"We'd go out, and we'd clean up parking lots," he said. "Who knows what happens when you see a backpack sitting there? The first reaction is to pick it up and that's what we did, and we opened it, saw wires sticking out of it and called police."

Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Spokane Mayor Mary Verner have praised the three workers in speeches for being vigilant.

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Man charged with attempted MLK Day bombing linked to neo-Nazi group

A Stevens County man charged with the attempted bombing of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane has links to a neo-Nazi group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.[/b]

DNA evidence and purchases of electronic components led investigators to the former Fort Lewis soldier accused of planting a rat poison-laced bomb along the route of Spokane's Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, according to a source familiar with the investigation.

Kevin William Harpham, who reportedly has links to a neo-Nazi group, was arrested by FBI agents and local law enforcement Wednesday morning at his home near Addy, a community of about 1,400 people roughly 55 miles northwest of Spokane.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014443763_spokanebomb10m.html

Group says parade bomb suspect posted on white supremacist website; FBI searches father's home

SPOKANE, Wash. - A man accused of trying to bomb a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade was an avid poster on a white supremacist Internet forum, where he referenced bomb-making and alluded to attacking anti-racist demonstrators, a national organization that tracks hate groups said Thursday.

The Southern Poverty Law Center said Kevin Harpham, 36, made more than 1,000 postings on the Vanguard News Network site, many of them under the pseudonym "Joe Snuffy."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/fbi-preserved-bomb-martin-luther-king-jr-day-20110310-113846-176.html

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Labor Ready is a temp service. The people who work there usually work day labor for little wages and do it temporarily. The goal is to make 40 dollars a day. my point is they don't usually "hire" people , they contract you for a job , you do it , get paid that day and tommorow you might be doing something totally different.