It started with a backpack at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, a backpack that contain a bomb.

While the authorities focused on the wrong suspect, a serial bomber planned his next attacks, two abortion clinics, and a lesbian bar.

But this isn't his story, it's a human story, one that I've become entangled with.

I saw as soon as I turned the corner, basically someone bleeding out.

The victims of these brutal attacks were left to pick up the pieces, forced to explore the gray areas between right and wrong, life and death.

Their once ordinary lives and mine changed forever.

It kind of gave me a feeling of pending doom.

And all the while, our country found itself facing down a long and ugly reckoning with a growing threat.

Far right, homegrown, religious terrorism.

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I'm Drew Nelson.

In Oregon, a man accused of kidnapping a woman and locking her in a cinder-block cell is now facing trial.

Negassiz-Zubari, age 30, is charged with kidnapping a woman from Seattle, driving her to his

home in Klamath Falls, and imprisoning her in July of 2023.

His trial, which began this week with jury selection, marks the latest development in a disturbing case that has captured national attention.

The victim's focus, actions, and her will to survive triggered a law enforcement response that may have actually saved many other women from a similar nightmare.

The federal prosecution there, they say Zubari posed as an undercover officer when he approached the woman in Seattle.

He allegedly restrained her with handcuffs, transported her 450 miles across state lines, and

held her captain in the cell he built in his garage.

After hours in captivity captivity the woman escaped by

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