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...Rudolph did epitomize the modern militiaman. After his father died in 1981, his mother moved the family from Florida to rural Nantahala, N.C. When she enrolled Eric and his siblings in school, she refused to give their Social Security numbers, fearing the government could track them. She introduced them to several churches that followed "Christian Identity," a rabidly anti-Semitic philosophy; in ninth grade, Eric wrote an essay denying that the Holocaust took place...
...discharged 18 months later; investigators think he may have learned about firearms and explosives while stationed in Fort Benning, Ga. Two months before the Olympics bombing in Atlanta, he sold his childhood home for $65,000. The buyers discovered an underground hiding space in it; Rudolph had dubbed it "the root cellar...
After his arrest, Rudolph was being held in Murphy and was scheduled to appear before a federal judge this week. He already faces several federal charges, including illegally using and transporting explosives, and could face the death penalty...
...later vindicated, his lawyer says he is "happily married" and working as a Georgia policeman. But he is not in a forgiving mood. "Vindication for Richard," says his lawyer, "would come only when someone pleads guilty to the [Olympics] bombing or is found guilty." That part of the Eric Rudolph case is just starting. --Reported by Paul Cuadros/Chapel Hill, Greg Fulton and Greg Land/Atlanta, Constance Richards/Murphy and Frank Sikora/Birmingham
Kerik is nothing if not upbeat about the direction in which Iraq is heading. He does have a precedent to go by, having helped Mayor Rudolph Giuliani achieve impressive reductions in New York City crime. Baghdad's new sheriff acknowledges that his current job is an even tougher undertaking. "Someone driving down the street, pulling out a gun and doing a drive-by shooting is one thing," he notes. "Here, somebody rolls down their back window, pulls out an RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] and blows up the entire precinct. It's a slightly different ball game...