Eric Rudolph
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"Eric Robert Rudolph", also known as the "Olympic Park Bomber", is responsible for a series of pro-life/anti-abortion and LGBT rights opposition/anti-gay-motivated Pipe bomb/bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured 111 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation considers him a terrorist.

As a teenager Rudolph was taken by his mother to a Church of Israel in 1984; it is connected to the Christian Identity movement, that believes whites are God's chosen people. He has confirmed religious motivation, but denied racial motivation for his crimes.

He spent five years on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list until he was caught in 2003. In 2005, as part of a plea bargain, Rudolph pleaded guilty to numerous federal and state homicide charges and accepted four consecutive life imprisonment/life sentences in exchange for avoiding a trial and a potential capital punishment/death sentence. He remains incarcerated at the ADX Florence supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.

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Justice is finally being served.

It is solely for the reason that this government has legalized the murder of children that I have no allegiance to nor do I recognize the legitimacy of this particular government in Washington.

I can't begin to truly understand the pain that I have inflicted on these innocent people, ... To those victims, I apologize.

I sincerely hoped to achieve my objectives without harming innocent civilians.

I would do anything to take back that night. To these victims, I apologise.

I would do anything to take that night back.

To those victims, I apologize.

The purpose of the attack on July 27th (1996) was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand.