Search and Rescue

Ein Stück weiter entlang des Parkways stehen in einer Lichtung mehrere Fire and Rescue Fahrzeuge, es ist kein offensichtlicher Grund hierfür zu erkennen ( und man kann ja auch nicht glotzen). Ein paar hundert Meter weiter halten wir an einem schönen Overlook und sitzen auf indem Maeuerchen. 

Da fliegt ein Helikopter systematisch einen ziemlich großen Bereich mit wahrscheinlich 10 Millionen Bäumen ab. Vermutlich entlang bekannter Hiking Trails. 

Wir beschließen, sollten wir jemals durch diese Wälder hiken ( das i pad schlägt mir das Wort hinken vor,dass passt wahrscheinlich besser), dann nur mit Leuchtpistole und ausreichen Munition. Wie will man hier einen einzelnen Menschen finden? Selbst mit Infrarot screening kann man sich nicht sicher sein, ob man ein Reh oder einen Menschen oder Bären gesichtet hat. Wie machen die das nur? 

Don erzählt, dass sich der Attentäter von Atlanta - Olympiade- genau in diesen Wäldern versteckt hatte und erst lange später entdeckt wurde, als er Müll wegbrachte. Er hatte red neck supporters in den Bergen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph

Rudolph is best known as the perpetrator of Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlantawhich occurred on July 27, 1996, during the 1996 Summer Olympics. He called the police, warning about the bomb before it detonated. The blast killed spectator Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others. Melih Uzunyol, a Turkish cameraman who ran to the scene following the blast, died of a heart attack. Rudolph's motive for the bombings, according to his April 13, 2005 statement, was political:

In the summer of 1996, the world converged upon Atlanta for the Olympic Games. Under the protection and auspices of the regime in Washington millions of people came to celebrate the ideals of global socialism. Multinational corporationsspent billions of dollars, and Washington organized an army of security to protect these best of all games. Even though the conception and the purpose of the so-called Olympic movement is the promote the values of global socialism as perfectly expressed in the song "Imagine" by John Lennon, which was the theme of the 1996 Games — even though the purpose of the Olympics is to promote these despicable ideals, the purpose of the attack on July 27th was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand. The plan was to force the cancellation of the Games, or at least create a state of insecurity to empty the streets around the venues and thereby eat into the vast amounts of money invested.^[8]

Rudolph's statement authoritatively cleared Richard Jewell, a Centennial Olympic Park security guard, of any involvement in the bombing. Jewell fell under suspicion of participating in the bombing a few days after the incident, after having been initially hailed as a hero for being the first one to spot Rudolph's explosive device and helping to clear the area. When he came under FBI suspicion for involvement in the crime, Jewell became the prime suspect, and an international news story.

Rudolph has also confessed to the bombings of an abortion clinic in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs on January 16, 1997; the Otherside Lounge of Atlanta lesbian bar on February 21, 1997, injuring five; and an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama on January 29, 1998, killing Birmingham police officer and part-time clinic security guard Robert Sanderson, and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons. Rudolph's bombs were made of dynamite surrounded by nails which acted as shrapnel.

[edit]Fugitive

Rudolph was first identified as a suspect in the Alabama bombing by the Department of Justice on February 14, 1998. He was named as a suspect in the three Atlanta incidents on October 14, 1998.

On May 5, 1998, he became the 454th fugitive listed by the FBI on the Ten Most Wanted list. The FBI considered him to be armed and extremely dangerous, and offered a $1 million reward for information leading directly to his arrest. He spent more than five years in theAppalachian wilderness as a fugitive, during which federal and amateur search teams scoured the area without success.

It is thought^{[by whom?]} that Rudolph had the assistance of sympathizers while evading capture. Some in the area^[who?] were vocal in support of him. Two country music songs were written about him and a locally top-selling T-shirt read: "Run Rudolph Run."^{[citation needed]}The Anti-Defamation League noted that "extremist chatter on the Internet has praised Rudolph as 'a hero' and some followers of hate groups are calling for further acts of violence to be modeled after the bombings he is accused of committing."^[9]

Rudolph's family supported him and believed he was innocent of all charges,^[10] but found themselves under intense questioning andsurveillance.^[11] On March 7, 1998, Rudolph's older brother, Daniel, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with a radial arm saw in order to, in his words, "send a message to the FBI and the media."The hand was successfully reattached.^[13] According to Rudolph's own writings, he survived during his years as a fugitive by camping in the woods, gathering acorns and salamanders, pilfering vegetable gardens, stealing grain from a grain silo, and raiding dumpsters in a nearby town.

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