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SNIPPET: "Right now, Spokane Police officers have blocked off several streets near the 2300 block of East Gordon in North Spokane. A man digging in his yard found some type of military explosive. The officer we spoke with calls it some type of "ground to air missile." KREM 2 News is heading to the scene right now. Watch a live report on KREM 2 News at 11:00."
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http://www.columbian.com/news/APStories/AP08242006news53330.cfm
"FBI investigating man who claimed to be planning to bomb"
Aug 24, 11:12 AM EDT
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: "SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- An anti-terrorism task force is investigating a young man's reported jailhouse claims of ties to al-Qaida and a plan to blow up a state Department of Social and Health Services building.
While in the Spokane County jail earlier this month, Anthony Garver, 18, reportedly told fellow inmates he also intended to detonate a bomb at the upcoming Pig Out in the Park event and set off a second device when police responded, authorities said Wednesday."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Garver's parents have cooperated with investigators and consented to a search of their property in the foothills of Mount Spokane, Brown said.
Evidence found in three searches includes two loaded ammunition clips for an AK-47 semiautomatic rifle, a laptop computer reportedly containing an al-Qaida training manual, a GPS locator device, maps, a mask and other "survivalist-type" gear, said Norm Brown, a spokesman for the Inland Northwest Joint Terrorism Task Force.
No bomb-making components or firearms have been found, but Garver reportedly told jail inmates he planned to build a fertilizer and fuel oil bomb "just like Timothy McVeigh," the Oklahoma City bomber, and blow up a DSHS office in Spokane, Brown said.
He also "bragged that he had an AK-47," but no such gun was located, Brown said.
Investigators took the threats seriously because the man has traveled to Morocco twice in the last two years and might have made terrorist contacts there, Brown said."
Explosive device shuts down Spokane neighborhood
Snip: Spokane police say a "ground to air missile" was uncovered in a homeowner's yard in North Spokane Thursday night. The explosive device has forced authorities to close off several streets. The Spokane Bomb Squad and a team from Fairchild Air Force Base are investigating.
>>>officer we spoke with calls it some type of "ground to air missile."
Hmmmm. Can't seem to find any updates.
Whenever we are digging on the property I joke that maybe we'll find some buried treasure. Perhaps I should be more specific in my wishful thinking as I don't want that type of buried treasure.