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A Look at Terrorist Behavior: How They Prepare, Where They Strike

Abstract:

Timothy McVeigh, the Sept. 11 hijackers and Eric Rudolph all had something in common — they selected targets hundreds of miles from where they lived. McVeigh wandered the Midwest living as a transient before making his bomb in Herington, Kan., and driving 250 miles south to blast the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The Sept. 11 hijackers traveled hundreds of miles to their targets. And Rudolph drove nearly 300 miles from Murphy, N.C., to bomb an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala.

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Smith, Brent. 2008. "A Look at Terrorist Behavior: How They Prepare, Where They Strike." NIJ Journal (July): 2-6. http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/222900.pdf

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