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=Bombing at the Olympics=

 ==Overview == At 1:25 a.m. on July 27, 1996, a homemade pipe bomb exploded in the Centennial Olympic Park. The bomb or bombs killed one and injured at least 111. Most that were injured suffered shock or minor wounds from the flying metal or other debris. President Clinton denounced the bombing as "an evil act of terror" and vowed that those responsible would be punished. The internaitonal celebration of sport and fellowship turned into a symbol of the dark side of modern life.

Main Point
Federal law-enforcement officials said they were beginning to theorize that the bombing was a case of domestic terrorism. About 30 minutes before the bomb exploded, there was a 911 telephone warning. The special agent in charge of the Atlanta office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Woody Johnson, said, "We will consider it an act of terrorism until information should arrive to the contrary." At 5:15 am, Olympic officials decided the 17-day competition would continue, just as the Games did in 1972.

In an early afternoon meeting that day, Mr. Johnson of the F.B.I. said that the 911 call was apparently made by a white American male with "an indistinguishable accent." After the police closed the park and cleared it of victims and visitors, they began to collect evidence. A senior Federal law-enforcement official said investigators "haven't seen anything to suggest it was anything else" but domestic terrorism. Throughout the day, Mr. Johnson said the authorities had received bomb threats.

Conclusion
Matt Ghaffari, an American silver medalist stated, "Now when people say 1996, they're not going to remember the medals we won. They're going to remember this is the place where they had the terrorist attack." So this is where some of the terrorist attacks started. It first started with competition between countries at the Olympics and slowly started to grow and become more of a problem. Now there have been terrorist attacks on the United States and war has broke out. People don't feel as safe as they used to and family members are being lost serving time in combat.

References (2009-10.1.2.C)
//New York Times// 28 July 1996. Kevin Sack. Web. 12 Oct. 2009.

//Centennial Olympic Park Bombing//. Photograph. //GettingImages//. Web. 19 Nov. 2009. .