Monday, August 22, 2005

Olympic bomber is sentenced

Rudolph, who read the same prepared statement he read at his earlier sentencing in Alabama, said he set the Atlanta park bomb "to confound and anger Washington for the sanctioning of abortion of demand."

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His plan: use enough explosives to knock out the power grid surrounding Atlanta, forcing the cancellation of the [Olympic] Games.

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Rudolph said he originally planned to detonate five explosives on successive days at the Olympics. In a plea agreement with federal authorities, Rudolph has admitted to three bombings in Atlanta and one in Birmingham and disclosed a cache of 250 pounds of explosives hidden in the rugged North Carolina mountains where he hid for five years.

  AJC.com article

Little is known about why he might have become involved in domestic terrorism, although he is believed to be a devotee of Christian Identity - an extreme, white supremacist group that is anti-abortion and anti-gay.

Police suspect that he received help from sympathisers while on the run, since he apparently had access to money and his clothes were quite new.

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During Mr Rudolph's time on the run, he became something of a folk hero in Murphy. A local shop sold "Run Rudolph Run" T-shirts, and two country and western songs were written about him.

--The Age article 6/2/03

Terrorist activity by a religious fanatic, with the intent to damage the U.S. government.

But guess what...he's not going to Guantanamo. And neither are any of the people who may have helped him - apparently not even investigated.



Eric Rudolph courtesy The Age

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