MLK day bomber Kevin Harpham - enjoy prison.
Posted on 03/13/2011 5:50:48 PM PDT by Libloather
KXLY Exclusive: Father Of Kevin Harpham Says Son Didn't Plant Bomb
Sally Showman | KXLY4 Reporter
Updated: 5:28 pm PDT March 13, 2011
KETTLE FALLS, Wash. -- The father of suspected MLK day bomber Kevin Harpham is defending his son, claiming there is no way Kevin could have planted the bomb in Downtown Spokane because he was with him at his Kettle Falls home.
The bomb was originally reported as a suspicious package when city workers found the black backpack and notified police. When officers opened the backpack they found an explosive device wrapped in t-shirts. Two of the shirts in the bag tipped off FBI agents to look for a suspect in Stevens County, which eventually led them to Kevin Harpham.
In an exclusive phone interview with KXLY4's Sally Showman, Cecil says his home was searched along with his son's and that they took screwdrivers, screws, and rat poison. Cecil admits the rat poison might look incriminating, but said every farmer has it on their property.
Cecil also said that he is his son's alibi because Kevin was with him at his home near Kettle Falls the day the bomb was planted.
“Just breaks my heart, sometimes I cry, sometimes I don't,” Cecil said. “It really hurts my feelings to hear all these lies.”
Cecil suffered a stroke in November and says Kevin cared for his every need through January.
“I know he didn't go plant it because he was with me,” Cecil said. “He helped me dress, he cooked my meals, he did my chores, he brought my firewood in and he just lived right here with me.”
Although he says there was no way Kevin planted the bomb, he can't disprove that Kevin was involved in building it.
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Someone, somewhere, on either side, is gonna have to prove something.
Just ask Richard Jewell or Stephen Hatfil.
Hopefully they got the right guy and will find him guilty and send him to Gitmo with the other terrorists.
Neither does the Justice Department's campaign to whitewash Islam while inventing domestic terror threats from its perceived enemies.
What ever happened to “innocent until proven guilty”?
How do we know it wasn’t Project Bombwalker??
Arlington Rd. scenerio.
I doubt the final indictment is going to contain a tenth of what those ol'boys come up with.
Consequently I think it's safe to say that this story is actually sinking beneath the surface and we're likely to not hear much about it.
I haven't followed this story. There has to be more than that or they don't have much of a case. What was it about the t-shirts that led them to a particular person?
I noticed that too. I looked around for some non-Potok-drawn connection to a supremacist group and came up empty.
Say WA? Evergreen State ping I find it a little odd that clues were left that led the police right to his door. Either Kevin is real stupid, or the evidence is questionable.
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That’s the first thing I thought. That’s AWFUL DARN CONVENIENT. Would you leave evidence in the backpack that could, even after a possible blast, with forensic procedures today, lead to your implication in the building or planting of the bomb? Could this guy be that dumb?
It’s hard to know what to hope for in this case — other than the generic “justice.” But it just seems way too simple that a guy who’d been caring for his stroke disabled father for 2-3 months up and builds a bomb to blow up the MLK Day parade, leaves his Dad (without his Dad’s knowledge?) and plants it, and comes back, and leaves evidence at the scene that is easily traced back to him WITHOUT the bomb going off....
Yeah, almost too easy. Stretches the bounds of credulity.
This guy is going to walk ~
I’ll take the “evidence is questionable” for $100 Alex.
The person who planted the bomb could have easily planted someone else’s shirt in the backpack.
be careful...he has not been convicted or even brought to trial..
so we'll see.....personally, I hate that suspects seem to fit conveniently into the govts cases....except when it comes to islamist...we never hear once that they're muslim....
The “bomb” may have been constructed and placed, not to detonate but to be found with the t-shirts and forensic evidence pointing to a specific suspect that Morris Dees and Mark Potok of Southern Poverty Law Center have kept a file on since 2004. In the 1960’s chapters of the Ku Klux Klan were so riddled with government agents it became difficult to determine if J.Edgar Hoover or Grand Wizard Robert Shelton was running the Klan.
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