Reward Posted for Alabama Bomb Suspect

The FBI offered a $1-million reward Tuesday for help in arresting Eric Rudolph, who has been charged in January’s fatal bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., abortion clinic, and for the first time also linked him to the Centennial Park bombing during the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

In making the expected announcement of an increase in the reward from $100,000, FBI Director Louis J. Freeh said the bureau is also placing him on its “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” list and has developed “a significant linkage” between the Birmingham bombing and three earlier Atlanta bombings, including the Olympic blast. He said that Rudolph is not an official suspect in the Atlanta cases but that he is “the only individual that we’re seeking right now” for questioning about those incidents.

The Jan. 29 attack on the New Woman All Women Health Center in Birmingham, the first fatal bombing of an abortion clinic in the country, killed an off-duty police officer who was working as a security guard and severely injured a nurse as she arrived for work.