Eric Rudolph to be Tried First in Alabama
The feds will try accused bomber Eric Rudolph first in Alabama, then in Atlanta.
Attorney General John Ashcroft said the legal maneuver of trying the single case in Alabama before three others in Georgia will ''provide the best opportunity to bring justice to all of the victims of the bombings and to each community that experienced these attacks.''
....Rudolph faces six charges of using an explosive against a facility in interstate commerce and could face the death penalty. Besides the Olympic and Birmingham bombings, he is accused of 1997 bombings in Atlanta outside a gay nightclub and an office building that housed an abortion clinic. In all, two people were killed and about 150 injured in the four attacks.
Rudolph's former sister-in-law described some of his beliefs on Good Morning America this morning.
Former sister-in-law Deborah Rudolph, who helped develop a profile for investigators, told ABC's ''Good Morning America'' that Rudolph believed that whites should further their race and opposed abortion because it was killing, in his view, too many white babies. And he had particularly harsh feelings about Jews, she said.
'I think he hated the Jews more than probably any other race,'' she said. ''He felt that, you know, they've been run out of every country they've ever been in. They've destroyed every country they've ever been in. They have too much control in our country. ''
You can read the Alabama Indictment against him here.
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