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ATLANTA - Richard Jewell, the former security guard who was erroneously linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing, died Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. Jewell, 44, was found dead in his west Georgia home, GBI spokesman John Bankhead said.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Victims of Eric Rudolph, the anti-abortion extremist who pulled off a series of bombings across the South, say he is taunting them from deep within the nation's most secure federal prison, using a Web site operated by a preacher and anti-abortion activist from Hampton Roads. Rudolph, who was captured after a five-year manhunt and pleaded guilty in deadly bombings at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and at a Birmingham abortion clinic, is serving life in prison at the ``Supermax'' penitentiary in Florence, Colo. Housed in the most secure part of the prison, he has no computer and...

FLORENCE, Colo. -- Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph laments in a series of letters to a newspaper that the maximum-security federal prison where he is spending the rest of his life is designed to drive him insane. "It is a closed-off world designed to isolate inmates from social and environmental stimuli, with the ultimate purpose of causing mental illness and chronic physical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and arthritis," he wrote in one letter to The Gazette of Colorado Springs. Rudolph, who was captured in 2003 while scavenging for food behind a grocery store in Murphy, N.C., wrote that he...

The owls gathered in the trees around the silos because of the mice, which came because of the loose grain scattered on the ground. There were five silos, each 30 feet tall, standing together in the valley next to the Snowbird Mountain range. Nestled halfway between Murphy and Andrews in the very western corner of North Carolina, the area around the silos is a rich floodplain, thanks to the creeks and streams that feed into the Valley River, and the farmers there grow corn, soybeans and wheat. Like the owls and the mice, a gaunt and weary man emerged from...

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 Contact: Office of Communications 404-651-7774 Governor Perdue Commends Richard Jewell Governor asks Georgians to Remember Jewell as Hero ATLANTA, Ga. – Today, during the 10-year anniversary of the 1996 Olympic Games, Governor Sonny Perdue recognized Richard Jewell for his service to Atlanta and the state of Georgia for spotting a suspicious backpack in Centennial Olympic Park and moving people out of harm’s way prior to the bomb explosion. “The bottom line is this – Richard Jewell’s actions saved lives that day. He deserves to be remembered as a hero,” said Governor Sonny Perdue. “As we look...

Pro-life Christian Cited For Speaking Out On Behalf Of The Murdered Preborn Back to court again! Officer Howard Noyes (badge # 1630) is an abortion clinic employee and a Richmond City Police Officer. Often when one has two professions, their heart is more attached to one or the other. Officer Noyes is no exception. Insuring that babies are killed with no Christian intervention is Noyes' passion. He is on a crusade. On 1/28/06, Paul Trout and many from his Church family were on the sidewalk at Richmond Medical Center for Women to pray, witness and intercede on behalf of the...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The government has seized Eric Rudolph's gray pickup truck, which he was driving when he bombed an Alabama abortion clinic, and plans to blow up the vehicle in a training drill rather than risk letting it fall into the hands of admirers. Some of Rudolph's victims said Wednesday the truck should come to them, however, as partial compensation for the pain and injuries they endured. The truck — a 1989 Nissan with the North Carolina license plate KND-1117 — likely will be loaded with explosives and detonated by either the FBI or the Bureau of Alcohol,...

ATLANTA (AP) - Victims of Eric Rudolph's bombs confronted him in court Monday, describing him as a small man who cowardly fled amid his carnage, before a judge sentenced him to life in prison. Just before his sentence was handed down, Rudolph apologized to the victims of the 1996 Olympics blast in Atlanta, saying ``I would do anything to take that night back.'' He said he had wanted to anger and embarrass the federal government because it does not prohibit abortions, and that he wanted to harm only government workers. ``I can't begin to truly understand the pain that I...

A nurse critically injured when Eric Rudolph detonated a bomb outside an abortion clinic described him Monday as "a monster" who should be put to death. "The full responsibility for this would have been the death sentence," said Emily Lyons. She spoke at a sentencing hearing for Rudolph, who avoided a death penalty under a plea agreement in which he confessed to deadly bombings in Birmingham and Atlanta. "When it was your turn to face death, you weren't so brave again," Lyons told the federal courtroom "You want to see a monster, all you have to do is look in...

Surprised that I would say that? Don't be. While I agree with every other reasonable person that Rudolph was wrong to exact vengeance against a society which, in his words, is "...no longer the protector of the innocents", I also agree with Rudolph's statement. We do not protect the innocent, and his targets (they are not victims, as victims, by definition, are innocent) are hypocrites when they call him a monster and a coward, as Emily Lyons, a nurse wounded by his bomb, said at Rudolph's sentencing. I can think of nothing more cowardly, monstrous, cold blooded, and hateful than...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - An unrepentant Eric Rudolph declared Monday that abortion must be fought with "deadly force" as a judge sentenced him to life in prison for setting off a remote-controlled bomb at an abortion clinic that killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse. "Children are disposed of at will," the 38-year-old Rudolph said, jabbing the air in a speech that echoed a rambling manifesto he issued in April when he pleaded guilty to four bombings in all, including the blast at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. "The state is no longer the protector of the innocents." Rudolph's fiery...

Emily Lyons, critically injured in a 1998 blast outside a Birmingham abortion clinic, has a message for confessed bomber Eric Rudolph: His crimes only made her stronger. "You did not shut the clinic down. You did not shut me down," said Lyons, who planned to testify Monday at Rudolph's sentencing to the first of four life terms for deadly bombings in Birmingham and Atlanta. Rudolph, who remained defiant when he admitted setting the bombs and has only discussed his reasons for the blasts in written statements, will have his own chance to speak at Monday's sentencing. Defense lawyers didn't return...

During Eric Rudolph's five years on the lam, despite a nationwide manhunt and a million-dollar bounty, a transient appears to have come closer to catching the serial bomber than did any federal agent. The search for Rudolph, sought in four bombings that killed two people and injured more than a hundred, always focused in this region - a densely wooded area in the western part of North Carolina. Rudolph had spent his teenage years here and had returned as an adult in the early 1990s, supporting himself doing carpentry. In letters to his mother written from a jail cell in...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 25 (AP) - The anti-abortion extremist Eric Rudolph, who is awaiting sentencing for the 1996 Olympic bombing and three other attacks, says in an account posted on the Internet that he survived on the run for five years by stealing grain from silos. The 5,500-word account appeared on a Web site maintained by an abortion opponent based in Virginia, along with the manifesto Mr. Rudolph distributed in April that cast the bombings as a protest against abortion. In the Internet account, Mr. Rudolph, a former Army explosives expert, said he used wheeled garbage containers and bags to...

Every few weeks, on my way to visit my grandchildren, I drive by the garbage dumpster where 24 months ago terrorist Eric Rudolph was finally captured after eluding the FBI for the previous five years. Mr. Rudolph, of course, has now formally admitted his guilt in the murderous bombings of the Olympic park in Atlanta, an abortion clinic in Birmingham, and a homosexual nightclub, also in Atlanta. He awaits formal sentencing. I look at that garbage dumpster and wince. It is so normal, nothing like the big military tank that was so vivid a symbol at Tiananmen Square. It is...

MANSFIELD TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Roy Decker can look at the photos and letters now, more than 16 years later, and spot the clues with ease. Right there, in sweeping cursive, the writings of his former Army roommate and future FBI's Most Wanted fugitive are eerie now. Right there is the Hitler reference, with future serial bomber and alleged Nazi sympathizer Eric Robert Rudolph referring to himself in a 1989 letter to Decker as "Der Furher (sic), Adolf Rudolph." Right there, on the snapshot taken by Decker at their Army camp in Kentucky in 1988, is the portrait of future survivalist...

Eric Rudolph - 'American terrorist' Abortion clinics on alert after Olympic bomber calls for more violence against them. By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com Abortion clinics around the US are "bracing for attacks" after convicted murderer and Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph issued a "manifesto" justifying attacks against such clinics and their workers. Associated Press reports that federal officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are calling US clinics to make sure their security is up to date. 'When one of these extremists puts out a call to action, oftentimes others do try to follow in their footsteps,' said...

"For many years I thought long and hard on these issues, and then in 1996 I decided to act. In the summer of 1996, the world converged upon Atlanta for the Olympic Games. Under the protection and auspices of the regime in Washington, millions of people came to celebrate the ideals of global socialism. Multinational corporations spent billions of dollars, and Washington organized an army of security to protect these best of all games. Even thought (sic) the conception and purpose of the so-called Olympic movement is to promote the values of global socialism, as perfectly expressed in the song...

Eric Rudolph's "manifesto" is 11 pages of hate, intolerance and self-justification. Sometimes eloquent, often blunt, it is at once an attempt to influence history and a thinly veiled call to arms. And to those who tracked the serial bomber and whose lives he shattered, it may be the only window they will ever get into the mind of a man who was once at the top of the FBI's most wanted list. "This is an unapologetic letter from an arrogant, defiant commander of an extremist army of one. ... I think this is both a call to action and tooting...

A five-year manhunt for Eric Rudolph ended in 2003, when someone recognized him while he was foraging for food behind a grocery store in Murphy, North Carolina. Scavenging in a trash dumpster and hiding as a lone survivalist in the mountains of western Carolina are quite revealing. Rudolph had no support, aid or comfort within the pro-life community. Rudolph is a cowardly killer disguised as a defender of life. Rudolph, 38, pleaded guilty April 13 to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing and two other explosions, after earlier admitting to orchestrating a 1998 abortion clinic bombing in Alabama. The bombings killed...