American Terror

January 29, 1998

An off-duty police officer is killed and a nurse terribly maimed when a nail-packed, remote-control bomb explodes outside a Birmingham, Ala., abortion facility, the New Woman All Women clinic. Letters to media outlets and officials claim responsibility in the name of the “Army of God,” the same entity that took credit for the bombings of a clinic and a gay bar in the Atlanta area. The attack also will be linked to the fatal 1996 bombing of the Atlanta Olympics. Eric Robert Rudolph, a loner from North Carolina, is first identified as a suspect when witnesses spot his pickup truck fleeing the Birmingham bombing. But he is not caught until 2003. He ultimately pleads guilty to all four attacks in exchange for a life sentence.

From:
The Second Wave: Return of the Militias
Southern Poverty Law Center Special Report

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  1. Like all right-wing murderers, Rudolph was a “lone wolf,” acting on his own, so we can’t blame the right for his actions. The media tell me that just wouldn’t be fair.

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    • As if the whole right wing hasn’t been howling at the moon for the last couple of years…

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