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The '''Weather Underground''', or '''Weathermen''' is a [[leftist]] [[terrorist]] organization now possibly inactive. <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wuo ATTAC Report]</ref> | The '''Weather Underground''', or '''Weathermen''' is a [[leftist]] [[terrorist]] organization now possibly inactive. <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wuo ATTAC Report]</ref> | ||
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Their ideology was explicitly [[communist]] and [[Revolution|revolutionary]]. In one famous incident, several members were killed in the "Greenwich Village Explosion", in which amateur bomb-makers immolated themselves <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/1.html Court TV – Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground] </ref> preparing for a [[terrorist]] attack on [[Fort Dix]]. Other members, [[Cathy Wilkerson]] and [[Kathy Boudin]], | Their ideology was explicitly [[communist]] and [[Revolution|revolutionary]]. In one famous incident, several members were killed in the "Greenwich Village Explosion", in which amateur bomb-makers immolated themselves <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/1.html Court TV – Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground] </ref> preparing for a [[terrorist]] attack on [[Fort Dix]]. Other members, [[Cathy Wilkerson]] and [[Kathy Boudin]], | ||
survived and were defended by [[National Lawyers Guild]] <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7494 NLG: The Legal Fifth Column], By Jesse Rigsby, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', April 25, 2003. </ref> members. Kathy Boudin later received a 20-years-to-life sentence for her role in the 1981 Weatherman Nyack, New York Brinks armored truck robbery which resulted in the murders of two policemen and an armored truck security guard. <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/15.html Court TV – Crime Library: The Brinks Robbery of 1981] </ref> | survived and were defended by [[National Lawyers Guild]] <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7494 NLG: The Legal Fifth Column], By Jesse Rigsby, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', April 25, 2003. </ref> members. Kathy Boudin later received a 20-years-to-life sentence for her role in the 1981 Weatherman Nyack, New York Brinks armored truck robbery which resulted in the murders of two policemen and an armored truck security guard. <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/15.html Court TV – Crime Library: The Brinks Robbery of 1981] </ref> | ||
Revision as of 02:42, August 18, 2009
The Weather Underground, or Weathermen is a leftist terrorist organization now possibly inactive. [2]
Greenwich Village bomb factory
Their ideology was explicitly communist and revolutionary. In one famous incident, several members were killed in the "Greenwich Village Explosion", in which amateur bomb-makers immolated themselves [3] preparing for a terrorist attack on Fort Dix. Other members, Cathy Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin, survived and were defended by National Lawyers Guild [4] members. Kathy Boudin later received a 20-years-to-life sentence for her role in the 1981 Weatherman Nyack, New York Brinks armored truck robbery which resulted in the murders of two policemen and an armored truck security guard. [5]
At a 1969 "War Council" in Flint, Michigan, spokeswoman Bernardine Dohrn gave her most memorable and notorious speech. Holding her fingers in what became the Weatherman "fork salute," she said of the bloody murders recently committed by the Manson Family in which the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and a Folgers Coffee heiress and several other inhabitants of a Benedict Canyon mansion were brutally stabbed to death,[6]
| “ | Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!" | ” |
Profile
Founding/Supervisory Organizations:
- Cuban General Directorate of Intelligence (DGI)
- Communist Czechoslovakia
- Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAL)
- Communist Vietnam
- National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Supporting Organizations:
- Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP)
- Workers World Party (WWP)
- Youth International Party (YIP) [7]
Type of Organization: Terrorist/revolutionary
Location: United States
Ideological cover: Openly Marxist-Leninist
Activities: Urban guerrilla warfare; bombings; assassinations; riots; armed robbery; prison organizing; prison breaks
Target countries: United States
Status: Innactive
Assisted Organizations:
- American Indian Movement (AIM)
- Black Guerrilla Family (BGF)
- Black Liberation Army (BLA)
- Black Panther Party (BPP)
- Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN)
- Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP)
- Republic of New Africa (RNA)
- Workers World Party (WWP)
Derivative/Controlled Organizations:
- Black Guerrilla Family (BGF)
- Black Liberation Army (BLA)
- John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC) [8]
- Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
- Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
- Youth International Party (YIP)
See also
References
- ↑ FBI file, Weather Underground Declaration of a State of War
- ↑ ATTAC Report
- ↑ Court TV – Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground
- ↑ NLG: The Legal Fifth Column, By Jesse Rigsby, FrontPageMagazine.com, April 25, 2003.
- ↑ Court TV – Crime Library: The Brinks Robbery of 1981
- ↑ Manson Family Carnage
- ↑ Propagandizing the Police, By William Norman Grigg, New American, 1999-11-08.
- ↑ Armed Resistance Unit Bombs US Capitol, Death To The Klan, Winter, 1984, No. 3.
External links
wolrdstatesman.org Weathermen (Weather Underground Organization)