'Unabomber,' whose attacks terrorized US, dies in prison

Ted Kaczynski, known as the "Unabomber," who terrorized Americans from 1978 to 1995 with his sporadic, anonymous bombing campaign, died in prison Saturday, US authorities said. Kaczynski, 81, whose attacks killed three people and injured two dozen, was found unresponsive at 00:25 am (0425 GMT) at a federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, said the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He was taken to the hospital, where he was officially pronounced dead later in the morning. The reclusive Harvard-educated mathematician, whose targets ranged from academics to random civilians, had a self-professed goal of halting the advance of modern technology and society, mounting his campaign of violence from a shack in rural Montana. His bombs were either hand delivered or mailed over nearly two decades, confounding investigators looking to bring him to justice. It was only after Kaczynski's capture and the revelation of his identity that the FBI uncovered his previous life -- one where he scored 167 on an IQ test and entered university at just 16. The nickname of "Unabomber" came from his targeting of a university and an airline company, leading the FBI to dub him the "University and Airline Bomber." The seemingly random nature of Kaczynski's bombings put the nation on edge, and at one point brought a halt to air travel on the West Coast in July 1995.<br/>