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On the other side of Austin's racial divide, fear lingers after death of serial bomber

AUSTIN, Texas - The serial bomber who terrorized the Texas capital for three weeks is dead, but many on the city's predominantly minority, blue-collar east side where the blasts began said they have been left with lingering fears about the attacker's motives.

"I wish I were sorry, but I am not," Mark Conditt said in the cellphone recording he made hours before he blew himself up in his SUV on Tuesday while being pursued by police, a source told The Austin American-Statesman.

Conditt described himself in the video as a "psychopath" who'd been disturbed since childhood and vowed that if authorities closed in on him, he would walk into a crowded McDonald's

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