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Seven years after the Olympic bombing and the wounds still hurt
Posted: Thursday, June 05, 2003     Isn't it poetic justice that
Eric Rudolph was discovered last week neck deep in a garbage
pile? Garbage in, garbage out. Rudolph is the prime suspect in
the July 27, 1996, Olympic Park bombing that killed one person,
wounded more than a hundred and almost ruined a great peacetime
event - the Centennial Olympic Games. He is also a suspect in
several other bombings in Atlanta and Birmingham that killed one
and hurt another dozen. And for what? I assume to make some
narrow-minded dim-witted point not worth making in the first
place.     more Yarbrough columns  At the time of the bombing, I
was managing director for communications and government
relations for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. The
Arab terrorist attacks on New York and Washington five years
later make the park bombing look like small potatoes, but that
day was as much hell