Bombs Wrack Idaho Town
Bomb explosions today wracked a federal building, a store and a restaurant here, a town of about 18,000 people troubled by racial tension. No one was injured.
Police said there was no evidence to link today’s bombings and a Sept. 15 explosion at a human rights leader’s Coeur d’Alene home to the neo-Nazi Aryan Nation’s Church.
The white-supremacist church, 10 miles north of here in heavily forested Kootenai County, has been blamed by scores of officials for causing the racial tension in Coeur d’Alene and Kootenai County.
FBI Supervisor John Campbell at the bureau’s Idaho-Montana headquarters in Butte, Mont., said one bomb exploded about 9:30 a.m. at the Coeur d’Alene Federal Building.
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