Eric Robert Rudolph

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Eric Robert Rudolph is an American terrorist responsible for a series of bombings in the southern United States from 1996 to 1998, most notably the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Park bombing in 1996. Along with the Olympic Park bombing, he bombed a lesbian bar and two abortion clinics.

Until Rudolph made a statement claiming a motive for the 1996 Olympic bombing, security guard Richard Jewell was falsely accused of planting the bombs. The FBI named Rudolph a suspect in 1998 and added him to the Most Wanted Fugitives list and captured Rudolph in 2003. White nationalists considered Rudolph to be a hero.[1] Rudolph was allegedly a follower of the Christian Identity movement after his mother introduced him to it.[2] Christian Identity ideology considers people of white European ancestry "God's chosen people" and people of all other races condemned to hell. Rudolph also bombed an abortion clinic, killing a police officer and scarring a nurse for life.[3]

Rudolph was given multiple life sentences and has been incarcerated in the maximum security Supermax federal prison since 2005.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ADL press release, 2003
  2. Is hate group leader Dan Gayman telling the truth about his involvement with Eric Rudolph?
  3. Abortion clinic bomber gets life
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