LEAD CHECKED IN OLYMPIC BOMB PROBE : FEDERAL AUTHORITIES AWARE OF IDAHO TRIO.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times A Washington state newspaper reported on Sunday that investigators looking into the fatal bombing at last summer's Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. in Atlanta were interested in three men accused of politically motivated bombings and bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest. But federal law-enforcement officials cautioned that the report focused on only one lead among many, and one that had not yielded enough concrete evidence to convince them they had a case. ``We are well aware of them and are following it,'' one official said of the three men, who have ties to the Phineas Priesthood The Phineas Priesthood is a Christian Identity movement that opposes interracial intercourse, mixing of races, homosexuality, and abortion. It is also marked by its anti-Semitism, anti-multiculturalism, and opposition to taxation. , a white supremacist group. ``But as far as them being the silver bullet, that's very premature.'' The Spokesman-Review in Spokane quoted a Justice Department official as saying the three men were the ``strongest lead'' in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a terrorist bombing on July 27, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first of four committed by Eric Robert Rudolph. Two people died, and 111 were injured. , which killed one person and injured more than 100. But the report noted that the men are not considered suspects at this point. The three - Charles Barbee, 44, Robert S. Berry, 42, and Verne Jay Merrell, 51, all of Sandpoint, Idaho, are charged with bombing an office of The Spokesman-Review on April 1 and a Spokane Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood A service mark used for an organization that provides family planning services. clinic on July 12. They are also accused of robbing Spokane banks on the same days. They are scheduled to stand trial Feb. 10 in Spokane. The last time investigators identified a lead in the Atlanta bombing - when they named Richard Jewell, a security guard, as a possible suspect - they were forced to backtrack and, eventually, announce that Jewell had been cleared. In its report, the Spokane newspaper cited some circumstantial evidence circumstantial evidence In law, evidence that is drawn not from direct observation of a fact at issue but from events or circumstances that surround it. If a witness arrives at a crime scene seconds after hearing a gunshot to find someone standing over a corpse and holding a that intrigued investigators. For instance, Barbee had been a longtime employee of AT&T, and the Atlanta bombing occurred in AT&T's Global Village in Centennial Olympic Park Centennial Olympic Park is a 21 acre (85,000 m²) public park located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA that is owned and operated by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority. . In an interview in 1995, Barbee had said that AT&T was an immoral company that favored women and minorities to the detriment of Christian white men, and he advocated ``guerrilla warfare.'' |
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