BLOG: Army Vet Wash pleads guilty to planting MLK parade bomb
A pipe bomb, found in the knapsack, loaded with lead fishing weight coated mouse poison, which can inhibit blood clotting in wound. The bomb was discovered and turned off before the parade, January 17,, which was watched by about 2,000 adults and children. Harpham even walked in the parade and take a picture of a black child and a Jew wearing a yarmulke, Prosecutors said.
Harpham was arrested in March at his home near Addy, Wash., after a manhunt.
Southern Poverty Law Center says that in 2004, Harpham National Alliance members are described as one of the white supremacist organizations are most visible in the nation. The Group was founded by William Pierce, who wrote The Turner Diaries, a novel about a future race war that is believed to have influenced the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
He served from 1996 to 1999 with the Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma.