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  Eric Robert Rudolph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rudolph, who according to CNN was "connected with the Christian Identity movement, a militant, racist, and anti-Semitic organization," [1], declared that his bombings were part of a guerrilla campaign against abortion, what he describes as "the homosexual agenda," and perceived support for them from the United States government.
Rudolph was born on September 19, 1966, in Merritt Island, Florida.
Rudolph was first identified as a suspect in the Alabama bombing by the Department of Justice on February 14, 1998.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eric_Robert_Rudolph   (1496 words)

  
 Centennial Olympic Park bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rudolph, at the time, was unknown to authorities, and a lone bomber profile made sense to FBI investigators.
Rudolph eluded capture and became a fugitive; officials believed he had disappeared into the rugged southern Appalachian Mountains, familiar from his youth.
Rudolph read a statement at his sentencing in which he apologized to the victims and families only of the Centennial Park bombing, reiterating that he was angry at the government and hoped the Olympics would be cancelled.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1996_Olympic_bombing   (1017 words)

  
 Backgrounder: Eric Robert Rudolph
Eric Robert Rudolph, the nation's most wanted domestic terrorist, was captured on May 31, 2003 in Murphy, North Carolina, after being a fugitive from justice for nearly five years.
While Rudolph frequently espoused these views, he never officially joined the ranks of the hate groups he followed, and is believed to have acted alone in the bombings he is accused of committing.
Rudolph was not known to be a regular at extremist protests and rallies, nor did he create Web pages to espouse his views.
www.adl.org /extremism/rudolph_backgrounder.asp   (1099 words)

  
 Eric Rudolph Trial - Eric Rudolph Sentenced to Life - from The Covenant News
Eric Rudolph's lawyers portrayed government explosives testing as a sloppy mess Wednesday and suggested tainted evidence was used to link the serial bombing suspect to a deadly abortion clinic blast.
Attorneys for Eric Rudolph, facing trial for the bombing of an abortion clinic in Alabama, are trying to gain access to evidence the government has against him in another bombing, because they believe it will help in their case in Birmingham.
Rudolph was pale, clean shaven and dressed in a navy blue blazer, red tie, white shirt and gray slacks when he took his seat in the courtroom.
www.covenantnews.com /eric/rudolph/eric05.htm   (5035 words)

  
 The Capture of Eric Rudolph - from The Covenant News
Eric Robert Rudolph -- the man charged with the 1996 Olympics bombing, as well as the bombings of a "gay" nightclub and two women's clinics that performed abortions ­ has been captured, an FBI source told CNN.
Rudolph, wearing a red jail shirt and pants with his feet shackled but his hands free, pleaded innocent before federal Magistrate Judge Michael Putnam for the 1998 bombing of New Woman All Women Health Care, where an off-duty police officer was killed and a clinic nurse critically injured.
The fact that Rudolph didn't respond to the lawsuit does not mean he admitted guilt in the clinic bombing, said Richard Jaffe, Rudolph's attorney in the criminal case.
www.covenantnews.com /eric/rudolph/eric04.htm   (1862 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Authorities arrest Olympic Park bombing suspect Eric Rudolph in western N.C.
MURPHY, N.C. – Eric Rudolph, the longtime fugitive charged in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing and in attacks at an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub, was arrested early Saturday in the mountains of North Carolina, the Justice Department said.
Eric Rudolph, the longtime fugitive charged in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing and in attacks at an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub, was arrested early Saturday in the mountains of North Carolina, the Justice Department said.
Rudolph was captured after police in western North Carolina spotted a man digging in a trash bin in the small town of Murphy at about 4:30 a.m., said FBI Special Agent John Iannarelli.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20030531-0904-ericrudolph.html   (1361 words)

  
 CNN.com - Rudolph agrees to plea agreement - Apr 8, 2005
Rudolph, 38, will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in exchange for guilty pleas to all charges against him.
Rudolph will then be transferred to Atlanta, Georgia, where he will plead guilty to the attack at a concert in Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics; two bombings an hour apart at a suburban women's clinic in January 1997; and a bombing at a lesbian nightclub in February that same year.
Rudolph was a follower of the white supremacist Christian Identity movement, but investigators have never ascribed a motive for the attacks to him.
www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/04/08/rudolph.plea   (1107 words)

  
 WTVY | Eric Robert Rudolph
Rudolph is charged with the Olympic bombing as well as the bombing that killed a police officer and critically injured a nurse at a women's clinic in Birmingham.
Rudolph has pleaded innocent to federal charges he bombed the Birmingham abortion clinic and he is accused of a fatal bombing at the 1996 Olympics and a pair of bombings in Atlanta in 1997.
Rudolph, a former soldier and survivalist, is jailed in Birmingham, Alabama.
www.wtvynews4.com /unclassified/364771.html   (6055 words)

  
 Rudolph cuts deal | ajc.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Eric Robert Rudolph --- who authorities say terrorized Atlanta and the South with the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing and three other attacks --- has agreed to plead guilty to the bombings that left two people dead and at least 120 injured, federal prosecutors announced Friday.
Rudolph's abandoned pickup was found by raccoon hunters in the Nantahala National Forest near Murphy eight days after the Birmingham bombing, according to the FBI.
After his capture, federal authorities moved to try Rudolph first in Birmingham, in part because evidence in the case was stronger and in part because they could seek the federal death penalty for the slaying of Sanderson, the police officer.
www.ajc.com /hp/content/auto/epaper/editions/saturday/news_2475d74d4588d09e0073.html   (1385 words)

  
 Eric Rudolph - bomber of the Atlanta Olympic Park - The Crime library
Eric Robert Rudolph is a white male born on September 19, 1966 in Merritt Island, Florida.
Rudolph is known to be solitary so it is doubtful that a group assisted him in either the bombings themselves or his life on the lam.
In the bombs planted at the Sandy Springs abortion clinic, Rudolph was indicted on two counts of malicious use of explosive, two counts of using a destructive device during a crime of violence and one count of interstate transportation of explosives.
www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/terrorists/eric_rudolph/6.html   (1529 words)

  
 CNN.com - Rudolph's attorneys want bombing trial moved - Jun 21, 2004
Eric Robert Rudolph was captured in North Carolina in 2003 after a five-year manhunt.
Rudolph is charged with the bombing of the New Woman All Women Clinic in Birmingham on January 29, 1998.
Rudolph's defense team is expected to argue, as it did in a motion requesting the venue hearing, that since the bombing, overwhelming "sensationalistic and biased" media coverage has made finding a fair and impartial jury impossible in Birmingham or the surrounding Northern District of Alabama.
edition.cnn.com /2004/LAW/06/21/rudolph.case   (584 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - N.C. police capture Eric Rudolph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Rudolph is accused in the July 27, 1996, bombing at Atlanta's downtown Olympic Park that killed a woman, wounded 111 others and stunned a world focused on the fanfare of the 25th modern Summer Olympics.
Rudolph is also a suspect in a bombing at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., that killed a police officer, and bombings outside a gay nightclub and an office building in Atlanta that contained an abortion clinic.
Rudolph is thought to be a follower of the white supremacist Christian Identity religion that is rabidly anti-abortion, anti-gay and anti-Semitic.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-05-31-rudolph-capture_x.htm   (1214 words)

  
 Boston.com / Latest News / Nation
Rudolph is also a suspect in bombings at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., that killed a police officer, and bombings outside a gay nightclub and an office building in Atlanta.
Rudolph is accused in the July 27, 1996, bombing at Atlanta's downtown Olympic Park that killed Alice Hawthorne, wounded 111 others and stunned a world focused on the fanfare of the 25th modern Summer Olympics.
Rudolph has also been charged with three other bombings -- at a gay nightclub in Atlanta and at an office building north of Atlanta in 1997, and at an abortion clinic in Birmingham in 1998.
www.boston.com /news/daily/31/rudolph.htm   (1175 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Is Terrorism Tied To Christian Sect?
Not only in Rudolph's case, but also in the case of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh and Muslim suicide bombers, "there's always the question of what comes first, is it the religious belief or the violent personality?" Aho said.
Rudolph, 36, appears to have found his religious home during his impoverished family's wanderings in his fatherless teenage years.
If Eric Rudolph had listened to his lessons here, he would have learned that acts of violence were absolutely and completely out of order and something this church would never have condoned," Gayman said.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A1196-2003Jun1?language=printer   (989 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Caught: Olympic bomb suspect Rudolph arrested behind N.C. grocery store
MURPHY, N.C. – Eric Robert Rudolph, the Olympic Park bombing suspect who became almost a mythic figure during his years on the run in the Appalachian wilderness, was arrested early Saturday as he scavenged for food behind a grocery store.
Eric Rudolph, the longtime fugitive charged in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing and in attacks at an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub, was arrested early Saturday in the mountains of North Carolina.
Rudolph has also been charged with three other bombings –; at a gay nightclub in Atlanta and at an office building north of Atlanta in 1997, and at an abortion clinic in Birmingham in 1998.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20030531-1259-ericrudolph.html   (1321 words)

  
 CNN.com - FBI: Olympic bombing suspect arrested - May. 31, 2003
Rudolph faces federal charges in a 23-count indictment in connection with the 1996 bombing of Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, as well as explosions the following year at a downtown gay nightclub and a suburban Atlanta clinic that performed abortions.
Rudolph, now 36, had eluded law officers for years, despite a massive search in the North Carolina mountains that involved hundreds of law enforcement officers and reportedly cost millions of dollars.
Rudolph also was wanted in connection with the July 1996 bombing at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta in which killed Alice Hawthorne, a 44-year-old Albany, Georgia, and injured more than 100 people.
edition.cnn.com /2003/US/05/31/rudolph.arrest   (1276 words)

  
 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives :: Eric Robert Rudolph to Plead Guilty to Serial Bombing Attacks ...
Rudolph was also indicted in the Northern District of Alabama for the bombing attack on a Birmingham family planning clinic on Jan. 29, 1998, which killed Birmingham Police Officer Robert Sanderson and critically injured nurse Emily Lyons.
Rudolph is scheduled to plead guilty to the Northern District of Alabama indictment Wednesday, April 13 at 9:30 AM Eastern Time (8:30 AM Central Time) before U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith at the federal courthouse in Birmingham.
Rudolph has signed agreements with the U.S. Attorneys' Offices in Birmingham and Atlanta in which he agreed to plead guilty to the three Atlanta bombings and the Birmingham bombing and agreed to waive all appeals.
sev.prnewswire.com /government/20050412/CLF04908042005-1.html   (1031 words)

  
 Gazette.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Now Eric Robert Rudolph is inmate number 18282-058 and a resident of southern Colorado.
Rudolph, 38, arrived at the federal Supermax prison in Florence on Aug. 22, the same day he was sentenced to four life terms plus 120 years for the 1996 bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta and similar attacks at abortion clinics in Atlanta and Alabama, and a gay club in Atlanta.
Rudolph pleaded guilty, but his public defenders in Atlanta and Birmingham, Ala., still cost U.S. taxpayers at least $4 million, according to a court document filed last week.
www.gazette.com /display.php?id=1310494&secid=1   (637 words)

  
 Newsday.com - Rudolph to be tried in '98 clinic attack
Asheville, N.C. - Following a brief court appearance yesterday, serial bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph was flown to Birmingham, Ala., where prosecutors have decided to try him in a fatal abortion clinic attack in 1998 that they said represents the government's best chance for a speedy conviction.
Rudolph, shackled at the ankles, wore an orange jumpsuit and blue flak jacket as he appeared in court for the first time since his capture after a five-year manhunt.
After the Birmingham bombing, Rudolph allegedly sent a letter to news organizations in Atlanta claiming responsibility on behalf of the "Army of God." Similar letters had been sent after the bombings of the Atlanta clinic and nightclub the year before.
www.realnews247.com /rudolph_to_be_tried_in_'98_clinic_attack.htm   (650 words)

  
 Eric Robert Rudolph: his supporters and his detractors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Eric Rudolph v Flip Benham Robert Ferguson of the Army of God defends Eric Rudolph's choice of defense attorneys, which Flip Benham had criticized.
Eric Rudolph Slept Here September, 2003 - Outdoor writer Bruce Barcott is convinced that Rudolph was not the accomplished survivalist that he claimed to be.
Abortion foe no fan of Rudolph Minzor Chadwick was present as a sidewalk counselor the morning that Rudolph bombed the New Woman All Women clinic in Birmingham, Alabama.
my.execpc.com /~awallace/rudolph.htm   (557 words)

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