New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- As news about Brian Cole's arrest by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) broke, scenes from outside the 6 Jan 2021 Washington DC pipe bomb case suspect's home went viral on social media.

Cole was arrested on Thursday morning after a near five-year-long investigation into the case, in which pipe bombs were discovered outside the headquarters of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Washington DC on the day of the US Capitol riots.

The bombs had been planted on the evening of 5 January 2021, and investigators at the time identified a hooded suspect behind the placing of the potentially lethal bombs, setting off a manhunt that finally concluded on Thursday.

"I'm proud...