I may be wrong about this, and correct me if so, but didn't the FBI profiler specifically tailor his profile to "fit" Jewell?
Dearest Shopper,:blowkiss:
The profile was "fit" for Mr. Jewell after this;
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In the immediate aftermath of the explosion, news coverage tracked closely the information investigators were gathering and the theory of the case they were developing. It was quickly reported, for example, that the FBI believed the blast was probably an act of domestic, not foreign, terrorism. And the early attention investigators paid to an extremist militia organization in Alabama was reported promptly.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Jewell was interviewed by the Secret Service, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the FBI on July 27, the day of the explosion, and again on July 28. In those interviews, investigators considered him a witness, not a suspect. That began to shift during the afternoon of July 28, when, according to the Justice Department, the president of Piedmont College, Ray Cleere, called the FBI in Atlanta after seeing Jewell interviewed on television.[/FONT]
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Cleere raised the possibility that Jewell could have been involved in planting the bomb, basing the suggestion on problems in Jewell’s earlier record as a policeman at the school. On the strength of this information, the FBI decided to run a background check on Jewell. Agents recalled a case in Southern California not long before in which a voluntary firefighter had apparently set a series of fires to that he could extinguish them and become a hero.[/FONT]
By the next morning, July 29, FBI headquarters was advised that the profiling unit agents "concurred with Atlanta’s assessment that Jewell fit the profile of a person who might create an incident so he could emerge as a hero."
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Up to this point, investigators had managed to maintain the confidentiality of their changing view of Jewell, but time was running out. Sometime during the day on July 29, Kathy Scruggs, the Journal-Constitution reporter who covered the Atlanta Police Department, began to pick up hints from police sources that the bombing probe might have taken a new turn. Scruggs, a xx-year-old xxxxx, had been at the Journal Constitution for xx years, most of it xxxxxx. Trying to pin it down, she met with a source after work. The source told her investigators were beginning to look at the security guard in a new light, as a possible suspect.
According to one of Scruggs’ bosses, assistant managing editor for Olympics Thomas M. Oliver, the source told Scruggs that Jewell fit a pattern—Oliver did not recall whether the word used was a "profile"—of a wannabe cop with troubled experience in law enforcement. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Whether from this source or not, Scruggs also had heard by this time that Jewell’s former employer had called law enforcement officials to, as she termed it later, "turn him in."[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The source extracted a promise from Scruggs that she would do nothing with the information without his permission; premature disclosure might ruin the investigation, he said. Scruggs says she agreed but added a qualifier of her own: She would no longer honor the commitment and hold back the information if she got independent corroboration. She says the source agreed.[/FONT]
Eric Robert Rudolph was against abortion, homosexuals,he was the FBI's most wanted, he was a murder, a racist, a militant, involved in an anti-Semitic organization, ect.
This "profile" was way off from being accused of "creating a hero image".