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Exhibit B. |
Asheville, NC - The lead attorney
for alleged Atlanta Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph told reporters
Sunday his client is shocked at being apprehended and has told
investigators he was under the impression from his amateur track
team coaches that he was competing in a new Olympics event, "the
exploding hammerthrow." Rudolph, a member of the Klan Cove,
Georgia Track Club, told his attorney, Clay Halbritton III, he
thought it was odd they weren't holding the event in the stadium
itself. "He just figured maybe they needed a safer venue,
because of the exploding element and all," said Halbritton.
When asked how Rudolph could possibly think there was an Olympic
event that consisted of throwing an exploding device, Halbritton
said, "What you Yankees don't understand is, the south is
fulla kids like this - good hearted, would run through a wall
for ya, just waitin' for some parental authority figure. When
that authority figure turns out to be a whack job with a hollowed
out walking stick full of Wild Turkey, well, you wind up with...
...the exploding hammerthrow team." Halbritton has already
found the other three members of the 'team' - Roger William Cantrell,
38, a sump pump repairman in Waycross, Georgia, Herbert 'Red'
Flushevel, 41, an unemployed backhoe operator in Greenville, South
Carolina, and Tommy Jack Duquesne, a barback in Panama City, Florida.
All three are expected to testify that they were willing to throw
the exploding hammer as well, but that Rudolph had the best qualifying
distance. Said former suspect Richard Jewell,
"Nice timing, FBI. Johnny-on-the-spot. Why didn't you wait
another few years til I had an oxygen hose paperclipped to my
nostrils while I hauled around my own tank on a handcart?"
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