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Would That Really Work?

by David Kurtz
01.26.11 | 7:16 am

That undetonated bomb discovered in Spokane along a Martin Luther King Day parade route may have been infused with a blood-thinning chemical found in rat poison in an effort to inflict worse injuries, the local sheriff says.

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