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[Subtitle: German media claims Horst Mahler identified as an informant for East German secret police in leaked report into 1967 shooting]He is one of the most paradoxical and notorious figures in modern German history: a social democrat lawyer turned leftwing terrorist who went to prison, turned to Maoism and then came out as a far-right nationalist.Now there is another twist: Horst Mahler, a founding member of the Red Army Faction, was also a Stasi informant.According to German newspaper reports, the revelation comes from a leaked report by state prosecutors re-investigating the shooting of a pacifist by a Berlin policeman during...

HAMBURG Horst Mahler, a former Marxist urban guerrilla and lawyer for the Red Army Faction, now represents the extreme right National Democratic Party. But the virulence of his views has not diminished, and his outspoken comments on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States have landed him back where he was decades ago - in court. Last week, Mahler went on trial here on charges of approving of crimes and inciting violence, and he could face three years in jail if convicted. A few weeks after the attacks in 2001, in a broadcast interview with Norddeutscher Rundfunk, the...

Marxist to Rightist, and Back to CourtBy DESMOND BUTLER, New York Times, Jan. 25, 2003 HAMBURG, Germany, Jan. 24 -- Horst Mahler, a former Marxist urban guerrilla and lawyer for the Red Army Faction, now represents the extreme right-wing National Democratic Party. But the virulence of his views has not diminished, and his outspoken comments on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States have landed him back where he was decades ago -- in court. Horst Mahler, a German lawyer and former Red Army Faction guerrilla who now represents a far-right party, is on trial over broadcast remarks...

A German far-right leader on trial for praising the 11 September attacks continued to lash out at the US in his first court appearance on Monday. Horst Mahler, a leading ideologue of the extreme-right National Democratic Party, is accused of condoning an illegal act. Nine days after the attacks in September 2001 he said in an interview on the ARD television network they were "cruel" but "justified" and said the perpetrators had his full sympathy. In court in Hamburg he said Arabs had a right to retribution against the United States, which he described as "the bloodiest and most imperialist...

A German far-right leader on trial for praising the 11 September attacks continued to lash out at the US in his first court appearance on Monday. Horst Mahler, a leading ideologue of the extreme-right National Democratic Party, is accused of condoning an illegal act. Nine days after the attacks in September 2001 he said in an interview on the ARD television network they were "cruel" but "justified" and said the perpetrators had his full sympathy. In court in Hamburg he said Arabs had a right to retribution against the United States, which he described as "the bloodiest and most imperialist...