Error Cited in False Bomb Suspect Alert

Denver police said a computer error helped set off a massive search for a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing when the driver of a truck that was stopped for a traffic violation raced away. Police told reporters an officer who checked the license number of a pickup truck he pulled over apparently misread the number. When the number was entered into a computer, it matched a number in a national database of vehicles sought by the FBI. The computer said the license plate belonged to a truck owned by Eric Robert Rudolph, who is a suspect in the January bombing. Rudolph’s truck was actually seized weeks ago.