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To: Eddie01

Did the FBI ever figure out who planted the bomb? It is notable that this bombing happened just ten days after flight 800 went down.


67 posted on 12/15/2019 3:18:13 PM PST by TBall
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To: TBall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Olympic_Park_bombing

The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a domestic terrorist pipe bombing attack on Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 27 during the 1996 Summer Olympics. The blast directly killed 1 person and injured 111 others; another person later died of a heart attack.

It was the first of four bombings committed by Eric Rudolph.[1] Security guard Richard Jewell discovered the bomb before detonation and cleared most of the spectators out of the park. Rudolph, a carpenter, and handyman, detonated three pipe bombs inside a U.S. military ALICE back pack.

After the bombings, Jewell was initially investigated as a suspect by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and news media aggressively focused on him as the presumed culprit when he was actually innocent. In October 1996, the FBI declared Jewell was no longer a person of interest.

Following three more bombings in 1997, Rudolph was identified by the FBI as the suspect. In 2003, Rudolph was arrested, and in 2005 he agreed to plead guilty to avoid a potential death sentence. Rudolph was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for his crimes.

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69 posted on 12/15/2019 3:23:37 PM PST by Eddie01
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