Posted on 08/26/2004 8:18:00 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
An anarchist planning to disrupt the GOP convention in New York City next week has a rap sheet chock full of terrorist bombings, which catapulted him to the top of the FBI's Most Wanted List during the late 1970s.
Richard Picariello, now 55, "has been talking to groups ... recruiting others into extreme measures," a high-ranking police source tells the New York Daily News.
In 1977 and 1978, Picariello was convicted for bombing an airplane at Boston's Logan Airport, as well as a Dorchester, Mass. armory and a Newburyport courthouse. His rap sheet also features a conviction for interstate transportation of explosives.
A member of the radical underground Fred Hampton Unit who was on the FBI Most Wanted List, Picariello briefly fled to Canada. When the would-be GOP convention disrupter returned, he bombed a power plant in Maine and robbed a bank before he was apprehended. He has spent nearly half of his life, 25 years, in prison.
More recently, Picariello has been active with the anti-war group ANSWER, which has been involved in various anti-Bush protests around the nation.
The notorious Boston bomber is just one of the potential domestic terrorists that the FBI and NYPD have to worry about when Republicans gather in New York next week.
Fifty of the country's leading anarchists are expected to attend and a handful of them are hard-core extremists with histories of violent and disruptive tactics, police intelligence sources tell the News.
Each of the 50 potential terrorists reportedly has a small army of up to 50 followers who are willing to be arrested during disturbances at the convention.
The GOP convention protest anarchist all-star-list includes:
• Kazi Toure, a Black Panther from Boston who was convicted in the 1980s of conspiracy to overthrow the government. His rap sheet includes arrests for bank robbery and transporting firearms. Toure was recently observed training younger militants in weapons use.
• An unnamed 20-year-old New Yorker who plans to shut down the Brooklyn Bridge. Tactics urged by the unidentified terrorist include hurling Molotov cocktails through the windows of military recruiting stations.
• Jaggi Singh, 32, a Canadian citizen, who is notorious for allegedly setting off hoax devices to detour police resources. He allegedly catapulted teddy bears soaked with gasoline at police at the Quebec G-20 protest in 2001, the News said.
Last week New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg invited "anarchists" to take advantage of discounts being offered to anti-GOP protesters on plays, restaurants and Broadway shows, as long as they agree to remain peaceful.
Bloomberg is an appeaser of the first order.
GOOD! Get 'em all in one spot and Kill 'em ALL!
Let's not forget the Puerto Rican terrorists that Clinton pardoned.
What better way to say thank you than to disrupt the RNC, eh?
Damn, it's beginning to feel like the summer of 1970.
Time for the new Israeli 'skunk ' stink bomb device to be used......
thanks for reminding me how rational republicans are
Bloomberg appeasing terrorist. Typical Democrap in RINO clothes!
I'm sure the city of New York has a few garbage barges. It would only be appropriate for the city to provide protesters and quasi-terrorists with rap sheets permits to use them for their soap box.
Can someone please explain to me why this guy is walking around free? We URGENTLY need to vote out all politicians who are enabling our current farce of a justice system.
And people get pisst at me when I tell then liberals are in bed with terror. "How dare you! We just want to give peace a chance!" Yeah ok, how many chances does peace get? How about 8 years? Yeah lets try appeasing global terror for 8 years..Oh wait, we did that already. It didn`t work.
For starters they could deport the Canadian towel-head.
A.N.S.W.E.R., as you know, is front-manned by Ramsey Clark. The same Ramsey Clark who was the counsel for Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
We received some training about the anarchists prior to the DNC in Boston. One thing that we were told is that the troublemakers always have the cameras rolling and sympathetic lefty lawyers standing by to sue us cops...
Nice people, those anarchists. GRRRRRRRRRRR!
LN, Ramsey Clark is now one of the attorneys for Saddam Hussein. What a great guy for 'real Americans' to associate with, eh?
The reason the Democrats have a problem with the war on terror is because they mainstreamed all the leftist terrorists of the late 60's and 70's.
The Weather underground, the sds, the black panthers, the simbionese liberation organization, VVaW are all mainstream democrats.
They are still defending terrorists and claiming they are political prisoners. Look at the free Mumia movement.
Clinton pardoned the Peurto Rican Terrorists.
They can't condemn them, they can't do anything about them because they are them.
The new incarnation is the ANSWER, WTO protesters, PLO, PLA, and Ecco Terrorists.
I'm sure lots more can be added to this list..
That's good to know.
My job is to position myself between the "archivist" with his camera, and the "action" in an effort to frustrate their photo-op.....
sounds rational to Me.
Jaggi Singh, ISM Activist Abducted, Beaten; to Be Deported back to Canada
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/jaggideport.htm
International Solidarity Movement Press Release - January 9, 2003
by Huwaida Arraf [huwaidaa@yahoo.com]
[Jerusalem, Jan 9, 2003] - On January 8, 2003, at 6 PM, Jaggi Singh, Canadian citizen and ISM activist, went to visit a friend in West Jerusalem. When he arrived at the doorstep, he was ambushed, forced into an unmarked vehicle, and taken to the Russian Compound in Jerusalem by three plainclothes Israeli secret service agents.
Jaggi Singh was beaten by the Israelis as they were transporting him to the Russian Compound. An officer by the name of Aaron slapped his face several times and pulled his hair in an attempt to interrogate him. Jaggi Singh's lawyer, Shamai Leibovitch, was not allowed to talk with or visit him at Russian Compound. On January 9, 2003, Jaggi Singh was transferred to Maasiyahu Prison in Ramle.
Jaggi was to be deported to Canada for visa violations. The Canadian Consulate visited him in prison and provided laisse passé documents for his return to Canada. Jaggi is now at Ben Gurion airport waiting for his 12:40 AM flight to Canada.
Jaggi arrived at Ben Gurion Airport on December 14th and was initially refused entry by Israeli officials for `security reasons'. His attorney took his case to court and Jaggi was eventually given a one week visa with the condition that he not enter the occupied territories.
Jaggi is from Montreal, Canada and traveled to the occupied territories to write about the realities of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Jaggi is well known in Canada and abroad for speaking out against injustice in the many forms it takes.
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