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...terrorists now being considered for release were key, hard-core figures of the "second generation" of the RAF, those who succeeded the founding cadre around Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader. Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57, a former journalism student, was appointed leader of the group in 1977; Christian Klar, 54, once deemed a "moralist" by his high school teacher, was among the last to insist that the group remain operative before it formally disbanded in 1998. In July 1977 - 14 months after Meinhof hanged herself in prison and three months after Baader and two other confederates were convicted of murder...
...National Socialism, tacitly sympathized with the RAF's stated goals, though rarely with their tactics. Films such as Die Bleierne Zeit (1981) and Stammheim (1986) depicted the terrorists as victims of their times. In the 1990s, a Hamburg-based designer even created a T shirt with the slogan prada-meinhof. Since Sept. 11, such radical chic has lost its allure...
...will eliminate terrorism? What will it take? The destruction of Israel? The conversion of all Sunni Muslims to the Shi'ite faith? The eradication of any Western influence on Islam? The crowning of Gaddafi as Sultan of North Africa? And will any of that satisfy the I.R.A., the Baader-Meinhof or the Red Brigades? Brian Eddolls New York City Championship Play...
...R.A.F. is the successor to the Baader-Meinhof gang, which terrorized West Germany in the 1970s with a series of politically inspired murders, kidnapings and armed robberies. Only last month West German Federal Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann called the R.A.F. "the most dangerous organization in West Germany." He described its potential for terror as "un-diminished and acute." West German authorities say that since last December the group and allied gangs have carried out 156 bombing and arson attacks...
...Nidal was a relic of a bygone era in which terrorists were wholly dependent on the sanctuary and succor of states - and therefore acted primarily as proxies of their patron at the time. Like the PFLP-trained Venezuelan Carlos the Jackal, the Japanese Red Army and Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang, Abu Nidal embarked on a career of mercenary mass murder in the early 1970s, eventually counting among his clients Syria, Libya, Iraq, Iran and possibly others, and generally collecting between $1 million and $3 million per operation. And as the others fell by the wayside, he became...