FBI: Olympic bombing suspect arrested (Eric Robert Rudolph)

CNN ^ | Saturday, May 31, 2003 Posted: 9:34 AM EDT (1334 GMT) | Henry Schuster

[FreedomPoster]

CNN) -- Eric Robert Rudolph -- the man charged with the 1996 Olympics bombing and the bombings of a gay nightclub and two women's clinics that perform abortions -- has been arrested in North Carolina, an FBI source told CNN on Saturday.

[FreedomPoster]

Eric Robert Rudolph

[Future Useless Eater]

Thank God something finally broke so the 24-hour news channels could talk about SOMETHING OTHER THAN THAT BORING LACI PETERSON story!!!

I'm so sick to death of hearing about that, and I can't imagine why the TV-news thought that story had NATIONWIDE appeal in the first place!

Good thing I have a fast-forward button on my Tivo... Its been getting a LOT OF USE!

[FreedomPoster]

ROFLOL! I hadn't thought of that angle, but man, I am right there with you! Let us hope.

[The Raven]

Ooooh...something for the libs to dwell on at the coffee pot.

[gitmo]

I thought Fox reported that he was captured in Charlotte.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

So does this mean that the feds must believe that they've finally found all the stashed Russian suitcase bombs there are to be found, thus enabling the search to be ended and the cover story closed?

;-)

[Carry_Okie]

The Southeast Bomb Task Force -- formed to investigate the bombings -- kept a presence in the area, at times with as many as 200 federal agents combing a 500,000 acre mountainous and heavily-wooded area.

200 Agents? How many other crimes are going unaddressed with that kind of manpower committed to one guy? Sometimes the resource allocation decisions of law enforcement absolutely mystefy me.

[w1andsodidwe]

Don't these things alway happen in threes? Can Osama and Saddam be far behind?

[2timothy3.16]

bump

[debaryfl]

Well, he was an individual accused of bombing an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub. In the eyes of the Clinton FBI managers, that qualified as real terrorism, as opposed to the acts committed by organized Islamist groups.

[FreedomPoster]

Big live thread on this here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/920756/posts

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

There is no amount of manpower that is too much to preserve a woman's right to kill her baby. This guy was a threat to the main tenet of liberalism. I am surprised they did not call out the 82nd airbourne.

[george wythe]

Cherokee County Sheriff Keith Lovin confirmed that a deputy arrested a man believed to Rudolph late Friday night without a struggle

A local cop outperforms hundreds of FBI agents

[Constitution Day]

I have compiled 2 long lists of OLD Free Republic threads from 1998 to 2003.

They can be found at these two posts:

POST #244

POST #270

[William McKinley]

As an update- they have announced a fingerprint match.

[MissAmericanPie]

I was just wondering the other day if he had ever been caught. The cops said eventually he would have to come out of the woods and they would get him and they were right.

[William McKinley]

Wow, some of those threads are truly embarrassing and disturbing. Hunt down a patriot? What kind of lunacy was that?

People who think like that do much more to hurt conservatism and to injure the pro-life cause than do liberal politicians.

[Constitution Day]

Keep reading. I wonder if any of those Freepers are still around?

[William McKinley]

To: CHIPPER

IMHO, Rudolph is being built up as a huge monster so that DoJ/FBI can make a bigger media splash when he is arrested.

From: Michael Rivero (rivero@accessone.com) * 10/14/98 15:14:46 PDT

'nuff said.

Sheesh.