United States " Christian " Terrorist Sentenced Today

1996 Olympics Bomber Eric Rudolph Sentenced to Life in Prison
By Jim Teeple - Miami - 18 July 2005
Eric Rudolph, convicted of carrying out a series of bombings, including one at the 1996 Olympic Games, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday.
Eric Rudolph was sentenced to two life terms in prison in Birmingham, Alabama for setting off a remote-controlled bomb at an abortion clinic in Birmingham in early 1998. The bomb killed a Birmingham policeman, Robert Sanderson, and severely wounded a clinic nurse.
In August, Rudolph will be sentenced to an additional two life terms in prison, for a bombing at the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996 that killed one woman and injured over one hundred others. Mr. Rudolph has also confessed to other bomb attacks in Atlanta in 1997 against an abortion clinic and a gay bar.
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Rudolph, 38, pleaded guilty in April to setting off a remote-controlled bomb that maimed Lyons, a nurse, and killed police officer Robert "Sande" Sanderson outside the New Woman All Women clinic on the morning of Jan. 29, 1998.
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Under a plea agreement that let Rudolph avoid a possible death penalty, Rudolph confessed to the Alabama bombing and to the bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics that killed one woman and injured more than 100. He also admitted setting off bombs at an abortion clinic and gay bar in Atlanta in 1997.
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In a statement distributed after his guilty pleas, Rudolph portrayed himself as a devout Christian and said the bombings were motivated by his hatred of abortion and a federal government that lets it continue.
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"The fact that I have entered an agreement with the government is purely a tactical choice on my part and in no way legitimates the moral authority of the government to judge this matter or to impute guilt," Rudolph said in the statement.

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A Remorseless Rudolph Gets Life Sentence for Bombing at Clinic
By SHADI RAHIMI
Published: July 18, 2005

Eric Rudolph, who has confessed to the Atlanta Olympics bombing and three other explosions that killed two and injured 150, received two life sentences today for a fatal abortion clinic blast after angrily denouncing abortion and telling the federal court that "deadly force is needed to stop it."
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Mr. Rudolph said in the statement that he was born a Catholic "and with forgiveness I hope to die one." The bomber, who had moved with his family from Florida to North Carolina as a teenager, lived for some time in Missouri with a religious sect called Christian Identity, which opposes homosexuality, interracial marriage, and abortion.
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source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/national/18cnd-bomber.html?ei=5094&en=38bd5702b35d1041&hp=&ex=1121745600&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1121725260-MGLcspbPRb/TJc6v8BOvDg