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"He's probably very, very careful," says retired fbi agent Louis Bertram, a former member of the Unabomber squad. "He's not likely to drink a lot. He drives so that he won't get traffic tickets or put himself in a position to get arrested." John Douglas, the ex-fbi agent who developed the bureau's serial-killer profiling technique, sees Unabomber as a hate-fueled obsessive, possibly abused as a child, who uses his ideology as a cover for his will to dominate.
Why, then, has this reclusive assassin suddenly become so vocal? Why is a murderer who carefully targeted his victims by name and occupation now issuing blanket threats? Despite Unabomber's disdain for the Oklahoma City "incident," some experts, including Bertram, believe that the bomber feels upstaged by public interest in that case. No longer is he America's most notorious murder suspect, and that offends his sense of pride and professionalism. There is, of course, a hubristic risk for criminals who feel superior to their hunters: cockiness can breed carelessness. Now that Unabomber has threatened so many more possible victims, including millions of airline passengers, there are a lot more people on the lookout for him. Tips on where he might be are pouring in to the fbi. This would-be savior of the misruled multitudes has now become an enemy of the people.
--Reported by David S. Jackson/San Francisco, Jenifer Mattos and David Seideman/New York and Elaine Shannon/Washington