To: d[-_-]b who wrote (868388 ) 6/27/2015 10:11:20 AM From: combjelly Respond to What is the source of your list? Looks like a lot of unsupported claims.edit ]1995 April 19: Oklahoma City bombing : A truck bomb shattered the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City , killing 168 people, including 19 children playing in the building's day care center. Right-wing terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were convicted in the bombing.1996 July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing by Eric Robert Rudolph occurred in Atlanta , Georgia, during the Atlanta Olympics . One person was killed and 111 injured. In a statement released in 2005 Rudolph said the motive was to protest abortion and the "global socialist" Olympic Movement.2002 May: Lucas John Helder rigged pipe bombs in private mailboxes to explode when the boxes were opened. He injured 6 people in Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and Iowa. His motivation was to garner media attention so that he could spread a message denouncing government control over daily lives and the illegality of marijuana , as well as promote astral projection .2008 July 27: Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting : Jim David Adkisson enters the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee with a shotgun, killing two and injuring several congregants before being tackled to the ground. Adkisson stated to the police and in a manifesto that he desired to kill Democrats , liberals , African Americans and homosexuals. Adkisson pled guilty to the crime in February 2009 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. [99] [100] 2009 June 10: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting : 88-year-old James Wenneker von Brunn , a white supremacist and neo-Nazi , walked into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., shooting and mortally wounding Stephen Tyrone Johns, a security guard. Von Brunn was wounded when other museum guards immediately returned fire and on January 6, 2010, von Brunn died of natural causes at a hospital near where he was imprisoned awaiting trial. [101] [102] [103] During the investigation it was discovered that von Brunn had planned to target White House senior adviser David Axelrod leading to increased protection for Axelrod and other steps. [104] 2011 January 6: Three packages detonate in the mail rooms of two Maryland state government buildings, causing minor injuries to the fingers of two government workers. [105] 2013 November 1 2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting 23-year-old Paul Ciancia kills a Transportation Security Administration agent and wounds 7 others, 3 of them TSA agents. Ciancia was shot and taken into custody. A note found in Ciancia's pocket said he believed he was a patriot and wanted to kill "patriot" upset at former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano , and that he wanted to kill "TSA and pigs". [106] 2014 June 8: Two Las Vegas police officers while eating pizza in a restaurant and one civilian were shot to death allegedly by Jerad and Amanda Miller a married couple in a suicide attack. A Gadsden flag , swastika and a note promising "revolution," was placed on the deceased officers bodies. The couple were thrown out a patriot group defending rancher Cliven Bundy [107] [108] 2014 September 16- Eric Matthew Frein described as a survivalist is alleged to have killed a Pennsylvania State trooper and critically wounded another at the Blooming Grove barracks. Life was disrupted in the region during the ensuing manhunt. On October 30 Frein was captured near an abandoned airport hangar and was shackled with the handcuff belonging to the trooper he is accused of killing. Prosecutors said they would pursue the death penalty . [109] [110] edit ]Further information: Christian terrorism and Anti-abortion violence in the United States David Gunn was murdered by anti-abortion activist Michael F. Griffin1994: Abortion provider John Britton and James Barrett became victims of Reverend Paul Jennings Hill .1996–98: anti-abortion extremist Eric Rudolph cited biblical passages as his motivation for a series of bombings, including Atlanta's Olympic Centennial Park , a Lesbian bar, and several abortion clinics. Rudolph acknowledges his attacks were religiously motivated, but denies that his brief association with the racist Christian Identity movement was a motivation for his attacks.1998: James Kopp killed at least one and went on a series of anti-abortion shooting sprees, both in the U.S. and Canada.2009: Anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder killed George Tiller in Kansas. [111]
