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   From: harrison@live.com   
      
   Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic   
   Park Bomber, is an American responsible for a series of bombings across   
   the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people   
   and injured at least 150 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation   
   considers him a terrorist.[2]   
      
   Rudolph is associated with the far right and was connected with the white   
   supremacist Christian Identity movement.[3] Although he has denied that   
   his crimes were religiously or racially motivated,[4] Rudolph has also   
   called himself a Roman Catholic in "the war to end this holocaust" (in   
   reference to abortion).   
      
   Rudolph is most well known as the perpetrator of Centennial Olympic Park   
   bombing in Atlanta which occurred on July 27, 1996, during the 1996 Summer   
   Olympics. The blast killed spectator Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111   
   others. Melih Uzunyol, a Turkish cameraman who ran to the scene following   
   the blast, died of a heart attack. Rudolph's motive for the bombings,   
   according to his April 13, 2005 statement, was political:   
      
       In the summer of 1996, the world converged upon Atlanta for the   
   Olympic Games. Multinational corporations spent billions of dollars, and   
   Washington organized an army of security to protect these best of all   
   games. The plan was to force the cancellation of the Games, or at least   
   create a state of insecurity to empty the streets around the venues and   
   thereby eat into the vast amounts of money invested.   
      
   Rudolph's statement authoritatively cleared Richard Jewell, a Centennial   
   Olympic Park security guard, of any involvement in the bombing. Jewell   
   fell under suspicion of participating in the bombing a few days after the   
   incident, after having been initially hailed as a hero for being the first   
   one to spot Rudolph's explosive device and helping to clear the area. When   
   he came under FBI suspicion for involvement in the crime, Jewell became   
   the prime suspect, and an international news story.   
      
   Rudolph has also confessed to the bombings of an abortion clinic in the   
   Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs on January 16, 1997; the Otherside Lounge   
   of Atlanta lesbian bar in Atlanta on February 21, 1997, injuring five; and   
   an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama on January 29, 1998, killing   
   Birmingham Police Officer and part-time clinic security guard Robert   
   Sanderson, and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons. Rudolph's bombs were   
   made of dynamite surrounded by nails which acted as shrapnel.   
   [edit] Fugitive   
      
   Rudolph was first identified as a suspect in the Alabama bombing by the   
   Department of Justice on February 14, 1998. He was named as a suspect in   
   the three Atlanta incidents on October 14, 1998.   
      
   On May 5, 1998, he became the 454th fugitive listed by the FBI on the Ten   
   Most Wanted list. The FBI considered him to be armed and extremely   
   dangerous, and offered a $1 million reward for information leading   
   directly to his arrest. He spent more than five years in the Appalachian   
   wilderness as a fugitive, during which federal and amateur search teams   
   scoured the area without success.   
      
   It is thought that Rudolph had the assistance of sympathizers while   
   evading capture. Some in the area were vocal in support of him. Two   
   country music songs were written about him and a locally top-selling T-   
   shirt read: "Run Rudolph Run." The Anti-Defamation League noted that   
   "extremist chatter on the Internet has praised Rudolph as 'a hero' and   
   some followers of hate groups are calling for further acts of violence to   
   be modeled after the bombings he is accused of committing."[7]   
      
   Rudolph's family supported him and believed he was innocent of all   
   charges,[8] but found themselves under intense questioning and   
   surveillance.[9] On March 7, 1998, Rudolph's older brother, Daniel,   
   videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with a radial arm saw   
   in order to, in his words, "send a message to the FBI and the media."[10]   
   The hand was successfully reattached.   
      
   According to Rudolph's own writings, he survived during his years as a   
   fugitive by camping in the woods, gathering acorns and salamanders,   
   pilfering vegetable gardens, stealing grain from a grain silo, and raiding   
   dumpsters in a nearby town.   
      
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