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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...."
PDJane
(10,103 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Mopar151
(9,983 posts)Southern Poverty Law Center keeps track of stuff like this - the list of domestic terror bombings is way too long.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)mercymechap
(579 posts)we have never seen such a horrific tragedy happen at a Boston marathon before.
Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)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.