Fugitive Eric Robert Rudolph, 32, was formally charged with the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing that left one woman dead and 100 people injured and the 1997 bombings of an abortion clinic and a homosexual nightclub in Atlanta. He had already been charged with the January 1998 bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed a police officer and wounded a nurse. (The Washington Post, 10/15/98)

The FBI opened up a new office, the National Domestic Preparedness Office, that will offer local police, fire and rescue workers Federal training and equipment to respond to chemical, biological or nuclear attacks by terrorists. (AP, 10/16/98)

Two Texas men, Johnnie Wise, 72, and Jack Abbott Grebe, 43, were convicted of two counts of sending threatening E-mails ­ one message to the Internal Revenue Service and one to the Drug Enforcement Agency. (CNN Interactive, 10/30/98)

David Connolly, 50, a Connecticut man who believes in common law, a loosely organized movement which rejects the authority of the Federal government, was charged with several gun charges including possession of an assault weapon, unlawful discharge of a firearm, and threatening and interfering with a police officer. (New Haven Register, 10/31/98)

A Federal judge imposed varying prison sentences on three members of the anti-government Montana Freemen group for their involvement in the illegal operations of the Freemen. Russell Dean Landers was sentenced for conspiracy, bank fraud and threatening a Federal judge. Emmett Clark had pleaded guilty to threatening to kidnap and murder a U.S. District Court judge in Billings, Montana, and Dana Dudley pleaded guilty to interstate transportation of stolen property. (The New York Times, 11/8/98)

A member of Michigan's North American Militia, Bradford Metcalf, 47, was convicted of plotting to blow up an IRS office and a television station and threatening to kill Federal officials. (AP, 11/18/98)

Nine members of the anti-government Montana Freemen were convicted on criminal charges including bank and mail fraud and armed robbery. Among those convicted were the group's most prominent leaders: Rodney O. Skurdal, 45, Dale M. Jacobi, 55, Daniel Petersen Jr., 56, and LeRoy M. Schweitzer, 60. (The New York Times, 11/19/98)

A Federal jury found Christopher Norris, 26, guilty of conspiring to rob a bank, making pipe bombs, possessing pipe bombs and conspiring to use and carry firearms during a planned robbery scheduled for the April 19 anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. (AP, 11/20/98)

The FBI unveiled a $20 million crisis center, the Strategic Information and Operations Center, equipped with computers and communications equipment. (Reuters, 11/20/98)

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced Mohammad Abouhalima to eight years in prison. He was convicted in May 1997 of driving his brother, Mahmud Abouhalima, to JFK International Airport, knowing he had taken part in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Another judge sentenced Ibrahim Ahmad Suleiman, convicted in January 1998 on two counts of perjury for lying to the grand jury investigating the bombing, to ten months in prison. (The Washington Post, 11/25/98)

The International Energy and Maintenance Co. (Intemco) pleaded guilty and was fined $250,000 for conspiring to violate the 1995 presidential ban on trade with Iran by seeking to build a $400 million power plant in Iran. (The Washington Post, 12/5/98)

Wallace S. Weicherding, 64, a member of the white supremacist group New Order, was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison for conspiracy to possess and make illegal firearms and destructive devices. Among Weicherding's targets, according to prosecutors, were the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. (AP, 12/5/98)

A U.S. Appeals Court ruled that Libya can be sued in U.S. courts for its alleged role in the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing. Because Libya is on the State Department's list of nations that sponsor terrorism, it does not qualify for immunity. (AP,12/15/98)

The State Department warned Russia that expanded cooperation with U.S. companies in the foreign commercial satellite field could be jeopardized unless Russian entities halt collaboration with Iran's ballistic missile program. (AP, 12/16/98)

A Federal judge sentenced international arms broker Parviz Lavi, 62, to five years in prison and a fine for scheming to sell F-14 jet parts to Iran in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. (The New York Times, 12/17/98)

Two militiamen, Bradley Playford Glover and Michael Leonard Dorsett, were sentenced to five years in Federal prison for planning an armed strike with guns and pipe bombs on the U.S. army base at Fort Hood, Texas. (News Release of U.S. Attorney's Office, Austin, TX, 1/7/99)