It all sounds so familiar.
Hordes of federal agents follow a trail of anti-government extremists. Bombs have exploded. Banks are robbed. The suspects are linked to a militant brand of white supremacy that percolates in pockets of the Inland Northwest.
The investigation stretches across Washington and into Oregon. But it settles in the quiet, rugged hills of North Idaho.
Tuesday's arrests of three Sandpoint-area men - suspects in the April 1 and July 12 bombings and bank robberies in the Spokane Valley - fill a new page in the region's ugly history of violence associated with white supremacy and anti-government fervor.
