Terror politics
updated: Mon Sep 10 2007 07:18:00
Just before the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, CNN's Bill Schneider looks at the politics of the war on terror.
Osama bin Laden may be grabbing headlines with a new videotape, but he is "virtually impotent," said President Bush's homeland security adviser.
Richard Jewell, the security guard wrongly suspected and later cleared of setting off a deadly bomb at Atlanta, Georgia's Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics, died Wednesday morning, his attorney, Lin Wood, told CNN.
Shards of glass in an Amman ballroom. A makeshift memorial at the King's Cross tube station in London. A terrorist averting his eyes as his victims denounce him in an Atlanta court. These are fragments of the year in terror.
Watching Eric Rudolph be sentenced to life in prison this week for his terror bombings, I wondered whether he and his followers represent the future of domestic terrorism or the past.
Eric Rudolph's mother says her son's confession to a string of bombings across the Southeast was "quite a shock," but that she still loves him and will continue to do so "no matter what happens."
Convicted serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph apologized Monday to his victims and their families for his 1996 bombing of Centennial Olympic Park, in which one person died and more than 100 were wounded.
Riding the 7:40 a.m. train from Luton to King's Cross, nothing seemed amiss.
The widow of a Birmingham, Alabama, police officer denounced confessed bomber Eric Rudolph as a "monster" Monday after a federal judge sentenced him to life in prison for the 1998 blast that killed her husband.
An article apparently written by Eric Robert Rudolph and published on a militantly anti-abortion Web site offers new details about how the confessed Southeast bomber survived and evaded federal agents for five years in the mountains of North Carolina.
The wink that Eric Rudolph gave prosecutors and federal agents as he walked into the Birmingham, Alabama, courtroom set the tone for a defining day in this terrorist's deadly story.
Eric Rudolph left 250 pounds of dynamite hidden in western North Carolina that could have killed "more people after he was imprisoned or executed than he ever did when he was free" had the government not agreed to a plea deal, the top federal prosecutor in Atlanta said Wednesday.
A regular feature of Nancy Grace's show is "All Points Bulletin," where a suspect sought by law enforcement authorities is profiled.
Revealing his motives for the first time, Eric Robert Rudolph blames the death and violence behind the four bombings he's confessed to in Georgia and Alabama on the legalization of abortion and "aberrant sexual behavior."
When Eric Rudolph stood before two federal judges Wednesday and confessed his guilt in a series of bombings in Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama, it wasn't the last chapter in this strange story.
Serial bombing suspect Eric Rudolph has agreed to plead guilty to all charges against him, sources tell CNN.
Accused serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph will avoid a possible death sentence by pleading guilty to a string of attacks in Alabama and Georgia, including a deadly blast during the 1996 Olympics, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday.
Prospective jurors in the federal trial of Eric Rudolph, the man accused of bombing an Alabama women's clinic in 1998, were asked to outline their views on abortion and the death penalty as jury selection began Wednesday.
The long, strange case of the United States v. Eric Robert Rudolph took a turn Wednesday into a hotel ballroom, where hundreds of prospective jurors joined a legal dance that could last through the fall.
Nearly two years after his capture and weeks before he was to go on trial on charges of bombing a Birmingham, Alabama, women's clinic, Eric Robert Rudolph has pleaded guilty to charges related to that blast and three other attacks.
High Timesupdated: Fri Feb 25 2005 06:51:00
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Attorneys for accused bomber Eric Rudolph have enlisted the services of FBI whistle-blower Frederick Whitehurst as they seek to get scientific evidence against Rudolph thrown out before his trial.
Lone wolvesupdated: Tue Feb 01 2005 10:12:00
Wolves run in packs. They hunt that way. They live that way. The lone wolf is the exception. When it comes to the world of domestic terrorism that might not be the case.
Lawyers for accused bomber Eric Robert Rudolph asked a judge Monday to suppress evidence gathered during his arrest.
A federal judge postponed until next year the trial of accused bomber Eric Rudolph, which had been set to begin August 2.
The trial of accused bomber Eric Robert Rudolph will remain in Birmingham under a compromise agreement reached Tuesday by defense and prosecuting attorneys.
Serial bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph and his attorneys will argue in court Tuesday that his case should be moved because he cannot get a fair trial in Birmingham, where he is charged with bombing a women's clinic in 1998.
Attorneys for accused bomber Eric Rudolph are asking a federal judge to delay his trial until June 2005.
Accused bomber Eric Rudolph's lawyers say the crimes their client is charged with don't warrant the death penalty, and they have asked a federal judge in Alabama to block testimony from a survivor of one attack from testifying in any trial's penalty phase.
Prosecutors in the case against the man accused in a string of bombings filed a motion late Friday arguing he could get a fair trial in Birmingham, Alabama, in response to a defense motion asking for a change of venue.
Attorneys for accused bomber Eric Rudolph late Friday filed a change of venue motion, arguing their client cannot get a fair trial in Birmingham, Alabama, or anywhere in the northern district of that state.
Attorneys for accused bomber Eric Rudolph are expected to file a change of venue motion by a Friday deadline, arguing their client cannot get a fair trial in Birmingham, Alabama.
Attorneys for accused bomber Eric Rudolph said Wednesday that polling data shows their client cannot get a fair trial in the Southeast and have asked a federal judge for more time before filing a change of venue motion.
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