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Jerrold Nadler's Two Faces on Terror By Jacob LaksinFrontPageMagazine.com | June 13, 2005Last Friday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Patriot Act had already been adjourned, but Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic blimpish congressman from New York and one of the leftmost members of the House Judiciary Committee, was too wound up to care: “We are not besmirching the honor of the United States, we are trying to uphold it,” bellowed the hefty Nadler. By this, Nadler meant to defend his attacks on the alleged abuses of the (in fact) privileged  prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Thanks to the efforts of the...

The Terror Network: North America

We did it... We protested churchill. There was a collection of pro-Churchill moonbats that showed up, and we protested them as well.

TROUBLE SPEAK Ward Churchill copied 'original' art piece Takes a swing at TV reporter who confronted him -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 26, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Professor Ward Churchill Adding to a growing list of allegations, controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill appears to have violated copyright law by claiming a reknowned artist's work as his own. Churchill, whose integrity has been challenged since news broke earlier last month of his paper blaming victims of 9-11 for the attacks, made an Indian-theme serigraph in 1981 called "Winter Attack" and printed 150 copies. But one of the buyers,...

Ward Hill as a member of the schismatic Boulder/Denver branch of AIM [American Indian Movement] as spent his whole life trashing the FBI and police. Here is what he said in his "Roosting Chickens" article. He is an anarchist who publishes his books through anarchist publishers. He wants to trash our law enforcement and intelligence organizations so that we will be destroyed. He doesn't want to make them better. He want the USA off the planet. He has often depicted the FBI and CIA as terrorist organizations.

Ward Churchill is the professor from Colorado University who called the dead in the World Trade Center "Nazis" and also said that the US deserved 9/11, and that we should have not fought back. Prof Churchill may get fired from the University of Colorado-Bolder He may appear on March 1st, time pending, if the administration approves of it.

Citing international aid workers, an October 3 article in the British Observer newspaper challenges the US government’s characterization of the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan as “genocide.” US Secretary of State Colin Powell, in testimony last month before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, declared that “genocide has been committed in Darfur...and that genocide may still be continuing.” Powell made his speech after the US Congress had unanimously adopted a resolution labelling the events in Darfur as genocide. But in the Observer article, headlined “US ‘hyping’ Darfur genocide fear,” Peter Beaumont reports allegations made by international aid workers in...

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. - A one-time member of the radical group that kidnapped Patricia Hearst had her sentence reduced by one year in the 1975 attempted bombings of two Los Angeles police cars. The 13-year sentence given Tuesday to Sara Jane Olson, a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, replaces the one handed down two years ago by the state Board of Prison Terms, which cited the potential violence and harm in the crime. A judge dismissed the term in July, saying the board "abused its discretion" by simply following a recommendation from prosecutors. Olson has already served more than...

A judge has asked prosecutors to justify in a hearing today why the prison sentence of a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army should be more than doubled. The hearing, to be held in the Chowchilla prison where Sara Jane Olson has been held since October 2002, was ordered in July by Sacramento Superior Court Judge Thomas Cecil. He found that the state Board of Prison Terms did not adequately explain why Olson's original sentence -- five years and four months, earned after she pleaded guilty to planting pipe bombs under Los Angeles police cars -- should be increased...

California has not exactly been the prime target for terrorists but that process could be speeded up with help from a judge who is sending the wrong message on a case of domestic terrorism. Kathleen Soliah was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a group fond of assassinating innocent civilians such as Marcus Foster, the first black school superintendent in Oakland. They also robbed banks and Soliah was on the scene in 1975 when the SLA hit a bank near Sacramento and gunned down Myrna Opsahl, a 42-year old mother of four depositing church collections. The SLA gunners wrote...

The state Board of Prison Terms has scheduled a Sept. 7 hearing to determine whether the 14-year prison sentence Sara Jane Olson received nearly two years ago should be changed. Olson, a former Symbionese Liberation Army follower once known as Kathleen Soliah, had been sentenced to 14 years after plea deals in Los Angeles for attempting to bomb two Los Angeles police cars and for her participation in a Carmichael bank robbery that killed Myrna Opsahl. Those cases had remained dormant for more than two decades while she was a fugitive living in St. Paul, Minn. After her 1999 capture...

Ex-SLA Member Could Get Reduced Sentence By LINDA DEUTSCH ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three decades after the Symbionese Liberation Army burst into the headlines with the violent abduction of Patty Hearst, a California parole board has been told to reconsider the sentence of a former SLA member in a related case. The center of the legal dispute is Sara Jane Olson, a housewife who lived in anonymity for 24 years before an episode of "America's Most Wanted" led police to her door in St. Paul, Minn. A Sacramento judge ruled Monday that the California Board of Prison Terms...

SACRAMENTO -- A Sacramento judge has thrown out the 14-year sentence former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson received, saying a new hearing is needed to decide how much prison time the former St. Paul woman should serve. Olson pleaded guilty in 2001 to taking part in two attempts to bomb Los Angeles Police Department cars in 1975, and originally received a five-year, four-month prison sentence. The Board of Prison Terms scrapped that sentence in October 2002 in exchange for a 14-year sentence, saying Olson's crimes had the potential for great violence and targeted multiple victims. The three-member board...

A refugee from the village of Kailek tends a camp fire in Kas, Sudan. (Sudarsan Raghavan/Knight Ridder) Muslim killing Muslim in Sudan By Sudarsan Raghavan Knight Ridder News Service     KAILEK, Sudan -- The white-robed men on horseback shot two of Hamid Rahman's boys that scorching afternoon. They were 3 and 6. But they weren't the youngest or the weakest to die. The Arab marauders targeted the blind, the disabled, the women carrying children -- anyone who couldn't run fast enough.     "They killed even babies," recalled Rahman, 40, a survivor with sad, glassy eyes.     Here, in the...

Today: May 10, 2004 at 15:56:38 PDT Last SLA Member Sentenced to 6 Years By JIM WASSERMANASSOCIATED PRESS SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The last fugitive member of the Symbionese Liberation Army to be brought to justice was sentenced Monday to six years in prison for the shotgun slaying of a bank customer during a 1975 holdup. James Kilgore, 56, who evaded authorities for more than two decades before his November 2002 arrest in South Africa, was the last of five SLA members sentenced for murdering Myrna Opsahl, 42. The housewife and mother of four was killed as she desposited a church...

Recent weeks have seen revelations of the Phoenix Project, a plot to assassinate six US Senators that was once debated and brought up for a vote by high-ranking members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, including presumptive 2004 Democrat Presidential nominee John Kerry, then a leader of the VVAW. The plot was conceived and promoted by VVAW member Scott Camil, and though it was voted down at a secretive November, 1971 VVAW meeting in Kansas City, about which Senator Kerry has no recollection, many questions remain. One of the targets was Senator John C. Stennis, who was shot by...

<p>When five graying, former Symbionese Liberation Army comrades pleaded guilty in recent months to carrying out a deadly Sacramento bank robbery more than a quarter century ago, Wendy Yoshimura was living quietly out of the spotlight in Oakland.</p> <p>The 60-year-old Yoshimura is an enigma, a painter of tranquil watercolors and a part-time employee of Berkeley's Juice Bar collective who has never publicly discussed her days among some of the nation's most-wanted fugitives.</p>

In June, Pacifica Radio's Los Angeles station, KPFK-FM, hosted a thirty-hour marathon of Dr. Kwaku Person-Lynn's anti-Semitic "Afrikan Mental Liberation Weekend."  It was the first time this once-annual program appeared for almost a decade. It had been banned by station management in 1993, after a long, hard-fought pressure campaign to remove it.  Afrikan Mental Liberation Weekend typically includes claims that the Jews disproportionately participated in the slave trade and persecuted blacks; in the past, he responded to criticism by calling the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League a "psychotic, idiotic, European Jew."   He has regularly played tapes by Nation of...

The last of five former Symbionese Liberation Army members to face murder charges in a 28-year-old bank robbery killing pleaded guilty Tuesday in the death of a woman who was shot as she deposited her church's Sunday collection. James Kilgore, 55, one of the nation's most wanted fugitives for a quarter century, pleaded guilty in a courtroom about a dozen miles from the suburban Sacramento bank where the SLA netted $15,000 in cash and Myrna Opsahl died from a shotgun blast into her left side. Opsahl, 42, wife of a Carmichael surgeon and mother of four, entered the Crocker National...

Jon Opsahl became an unlikely hero. He never forgot his mom's brutal death at the hands of one of California's most notorious terrorist gangs, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), when he was 14 years old. His relentless perseverance in helping find his mother's killers eventually started police and prosecutors on a 28-year odyssey that ended with the rounding up of the vicious killers: the ringleaders of the SLA. Jon's mother, Myrna Opsahl, was 42 at the time of her death. She was killed during a robbery of the Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, near Sacramento, on April 21, 1975. Opsahl,...