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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 11:52 PM Apr 2013

Two people died, and 111 were injured (image with blood on ground, but no victims. Not very graphic)

A right wing loon went to a major sporting event and placed a bomb in a trash can.

Two people died, and 111 were injured.



It was the Centennial Olympic Park Bombing, July 27, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, during the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first of four bombings committed by Eric Robert Rudolph. (The FBI targeted and harassed an innocent guy for ages, while Rudolph went on to bomb several abortion clinics and other abortion-related targets)


I drag this from the memory hole because I heard some "terrorism expert" on the news talking about how we have never seen this kind of street-scape IED terrorism in America before. How could today not remind people of Atlanta? It is very similar. Today is worse in its effect, being two explosions versus one, but it is very, very similar in terms of a guy dropping a bomb in trash can at a crowded American sport venue.

9/11 really does seem to have wiped parts of the national memory hard-drive. ("Nobody could have predicted..." is becoming, "Nobody could have remembered....&quot

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Two people died, and 111 were injured (image with blood on ground, but no victims. Not very graphic) (Original Post) cthulu2016 Apr 2013 OP
The American public has the memory of a goldfish. PDJane Apr 2013 #1
You're being too charitable. kestrel91316 Apr 2013 #5
That was no expert you heard Mopar151 Apr 2013 #2
It has happened before, it'll happen again. It is awful. uppityperson Apr 2013 #3
Maybe he meant to say mercymechap Apr 2013 #4
The first thing I thought was Atlanta Renew Deal Apr 2013 #6

Mopar151

(9,965 posts)
2. That was no expert you heard
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 11:55 PM
Apr 2013

Southern Poverty Law Center keeps track of stuff like this - the list of domestic terror bombings is way too long.

Renew Deal

(81,803 posts)
6. The first thing I thought was Atlanta
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:27 AM
Apr 2013

This seems bigger than that. The Olympics are a bigger event with a history of problems. But this was a crowded area in a major city.

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