A-Infos (en) `Army of God' Group Claims Alabama Bomb

[Tom Burghardt <tburghardt@igc.apc.org>]

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             `ARMY OF GOD' GROUP CLAIMS ALABAMA BOMB
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     09:15 p.m Feb 02, 1998 Eastern
   
     ATLANTA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - A group calling itself the Army
of God, which claimed responsibility for two explosions in
Georgia last year, said on Monday it carried out a bombing at a
Birmingham, Alabama abortion clinic last week that killed one
person.
   
     The claim was made in a letter to Reuters news agency and
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution that were intercepted by
federal agents on Monday. They said it was similar to letters
received last year after bombings at an Atlanta abortion clinic
and a gay nightclub.
   
     The New Woman All Women Health Care center in Birmingham,
Alabama, about 120 miles (200 km) west of Atlanta, was bombed on
Thursday, killing off-duty police officer Robert Sanderson and
injuring Emily Lyons, 41, the head nurse at the center's abortion
clinic, who lost an eye.
   
     FBI agents said at least three pieces of mail were found
(on) Monday that were believed linked to letters sent last year
to Atlanta media organizations. One was an empty envelope and the
other two were an identical letter to Reuters and the Atlanta
Journal and Constitution detailing how the Birmingham bombing was
carried out.
   
     All three mailings were addressed in the heavy, capitalized,
block script used in the letters sent last year.
   
     Those letters claimed to be from the ``Army of God'' and
described the ingredients used in bombs that were planted at an
Atlanta abortion clinic and a gay nightclub in nearby Sandy
Springs.
 
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