{"id":588,"date":"2007-02-14T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2007-02-14T02:08:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T16:08:06","slug":"down-with-terror-long-live-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Down with terror! Long live war (on terror)!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Germany, on February 12, former RAF<\/a><\/strong> member Brigitte Mohnhaupt<\/em> had her bid for parole approved by a court in Stuttgart, and may be released in March:<\/p>\n

BERLIN, Germany<\/a> (Reuters) — A German court on Monday ordered the release of Brigitte Mohnhaupt, a former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) who has spent 24 years in prison for her involvement in multiple kidnappings and murders in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

The decision, which came after a request by Mohnhaupt for early release, is likely to cause a storm in the country, notably because she has expressed no remorse for a murderous RAF campaign which shook West Germany’s new democracy to its core…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the same time, Italian police have arrested 15 people in northern Italy accused of making plans — of the sort that one might expect “extreme left-wing domestic terrorists” to make — and of having ‘links’ to the Red Brigades<\/a><\/strong>. “Police conducted 80 searches, mainly of gathering places for leftists”, according to AP (Italian police arrest 15 in raids against terror group with Red Brigades links<\/a>, International Herald Tribune<\/em>, February 12, 2007), which action parallels the activities of their Greek comrades, who recently arrested 60<\/a>, or perhaps 50<\/a>, or perhaps 70<\/a>, people in raids in Exarchia, “a known hangout for anarchists”.<\/p>\n

In the United States, 8 men were arrested on January 23, accused of the murder, in 1971, of a policeman, John V. Young, as part of a campaign against ‘law enforcement’ conducted by the Black Liberation Army<\/strong>, “a violent offshoot of the Black Panther Party”. Interestingly:<\/p>\n

Several of the men charged Tuesday have already served jail time in connection with the case.<\/p>\n

Brown, Boudreaux, Jones and Taylor were jailed in 2005 for refusing to answer questions before a grand jury investigating Young’s death.<\/p>\n

Three men, including Taylor, were charged in Young’s attack in early 1975, but those charges were dismissed by a San Francisco judge because of an earlier ruling that evidence was obtained by torture<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also in the US, a person (or persons) has been sending letter-bombs to investment firms. According to Frank Main (Is bomb from ‘Bishop’? Investment firm here latest to get threat<\/a>, Chicago Sun-Times<\/em>, February 10, 2007):<\/p>\n

The person who recently mailed an unarmed pipe bomb to a Loop investment firm fits the description of The Bishop<\/em>, the nom de guerre of someone who has sent threatening letters to Midwest companies since 2005, according to a security expert…<\/p>\n

In 2005, The Bishop started sending anonymous, threatening letters to financial services companies in the Midwest demanding the targeted companies take action to move specific stocks to a predetermined price, often $6.66<\/strong>, the report said. The letters were signed “The Bishop.”<\/p>\n

On Feb. 2, a mail bomb was discovered at Perkins, Wolf, McDonnell & Co., 311 S. Wacker, police said. The package originally was mailed to Janus Capital Group Inc. in Denver and forwarded to the Chicago firm, which handles Janus business, officials said.<\/p>\n

According to a law enforcement source, the letter accompanying the Chicago bomb said: “The only reason you’re alive is I didn’t attach one wire,” adding, “There’s nothing the police or anybody can do, so don’t contact them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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