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Listing Of Particulars: The Centennial Olympic Park Bombing

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The Centennial Olympic Park Bombing happened on July 27, 1996. It was a terrorist attack committed by Eric Rudolph. Rudolph was a right wing terrorism that believed the government was pro-abortion. He bombed the park in an attempt to stop the Olympic Games that year, so he could raise awareness for what he perceived the government was doing. The only directly killed one person with the blast, however someone else died of a heart attack that was presumably caused by the panic of the bomb blast, and manage to injure over 100 people
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In the year 1996 the Olympic Games were set to be held in Atlanta, Georgia. The Centennial Olympic Park was designed to be the hub of this event, and thus thousands of spectators …show more content…

The Olympic Park Bombing was his first bombing, that and the fact the media was so focused on Richard Jewel are probably what lead to his evading capture for so long. He is a religious terrorist because after he bombed the Centennial Olympic Park he decided to bomb two abortion clinics and a lesbian nightclub. Once Jewel was cleared of being involved there were no remaining suspects that the FBI had. After several months an abortion clinic was bombed in Sandy Springs, Georgia in 1997. The Otherside Lounge, a lesbian bar the Atlanta area was bomber a month after the Sandy Springs incident. This time the bomb injured five people. These two bombing are eventually what connected Rudolph to the Olympic Park Bombing. After the bomb was analyzed by investigators it was determine to be made by the same person that blew up the Olympic Games half a year earlier. While the FBI knew whoever had bombed the places was the same person they did not have any idea on who he could be or were he would strike next. Nearly a year later Rudolph decide to bomb and abortion clinic in Alabama that would prove to be his undoing. He blew up a clinic that killed a police officer and a nurse, his first fatalities since his initial bombing at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. A partial plate was given by two witnesses to the police and this was used to track him. They knew he was linked to all the bombings because all were dynamite bombs …show more content…

I thought the use of criminal profiler was interesting, even though they were wrong about their first suspect. What I find that was truly amazing is that was able to evade capture from the FBI for five years. This is no easy feat as the FBI is known for their tenacity. I feel like this assignment was a good was to learn about a domestic act of terrorism and how it relates to our class. The motivations of the terrorist are another way it related as we learned the most basic motivations are the need for terrorists to change the way the government acts about something either socially, economically, or politically. Rudolph’s motivations were about his Christian religion which is why he bombed abortion clinics and a lesbian bar, the Olympic Park bombing seems to be more obtaining notoriety for his cause, however. His action also made him a right-wing terrorist. We learned that right-winged group are anti-government and often associated with white supremacy. Rudolph did attend the Church of Israel faith which believes that white people are the chosen people, however Rudolph claims that race had no bearing on the locations he chose to

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