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[[Image:Wuodec3.jpg|right|thumb|350px|First page of WUO Declaration of a State of War with Amerika issued by [[Bernardine Dohrn]], May 21 1970.<ref>FBI file, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weather_Underground_Declaration_of_a_State_of_War Weather Underground Declaration of a State of War]</ref> Dohrn was instrumental is launching the career of Chicago City Alderman [[Barack Obama]], later elected President of the United States.]]
 
[[Image:Wuodec3.jpg|right|thumb|350px|First page of WUO Declaration of a State of War with Amerika issued by [[Bernardine Dohrn]], May 21 1970.<ref>FBI file, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weather_Underground_Declaration_of_a_State_of_War Weather Underground Declaration of a State of War]</ref> Dohrn was instrumental is launching the career of Chicago City Alderman [[Barack Obama]], later elected President of the United States.]]
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The '''Weather Underground''', or '''Weathermen''' was a [[leftist]] [[terrorist]] organization <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wuo ATTAC Report]</ref>, active mostly in [[New York City]] in the 1960s.  They took their name from the [[Bob Dylan]] song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues".
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The '''Weather Underground''', or '''Weathermen''' was a [[leftist]] [[terrorist]] organization. <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wuo ATTAC Report]</ref>
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::''...you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows...''
 
  
 
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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground]  </ref> preparing for a [[terrorist]] attack on [[Fort Dix]]. Other members, [[Cathy Wilkerson]] and [[Kathy Boudin]],

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First page of WUO Declaration of a State of War with Amerika issued by Bernardine Dohrn, May 21 1970.[1] Dohrn was instrumental is launching the career of Chicago City Alderman Barack Obama, later elected President of the United States.

The Weather Underground, or Weathermen was a leftist terrorist organization. [2]

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]

Profile

Founding/Supervisory Organizations:

Supporting Organizations:

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:

Derivative/Controlled Organizations:

See also

References

  1. ↑ FBI file, Weather Underground Declaration of a State of War
  2. ↑ ATTAC Report
  3. ↑ Court TV – Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground
  4. ↑ NLG: The Legal Fifth Column, By Jesse Rigsby, FrontPageMagazine.com, April 25, 2003.
  5. ↑ Court TV – Crime Library: The Brinks Robbery of 1981
  6. ↑ Propagandizing the Police, By William Norman Grigg, New American, 1999-11-08.
  7. ↑ Armed Resistance Unit Bombs US Capitol, Death To The Klan, Winter, 1984, No. 3.


External links

wolrdstatesman.org Weathermen (Weather Underground Organization)

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