Saturday, December 20, 2008

Former German Terrorist Released After 26 Years

From Yahoo News/AP:

BERLIN – Throughout the 1970s, the Red Army Faction was the scourge of capitalist West Germany and Christian Klar one of its most notorious leaders — the force behind a murder spree that included the slayings of a federal prosecutor, an industrialist and the chief of a major bank.

On Friday, Klar walked free from prison after 26 years — angering family and friends of victims and many Germans who recalled the fear of living through the Marxist-Leninist group's terror campaign, which killed 34 people and injured hundreds before the group formally disbanded in 1998.

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