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• [1] Yvette from Barcelona August 11, 2009 - 03:46AM

  Could you ask your guest to comment on the way the European press and many left wing groups perceived Baader Meinhof at the time? Living there at the time it felt they were idolized as a brainy group of folks who were not always on the wrong side of the issues, and in my opinion, incorrectly, not always reported on as a terrorist group, but rather a left wing ideology group. I often felt the victims were reported on in a more negative view than BM.

  Gracias.

  
  
• [2] bruce August 11, 2009 - 09:52AM

  Baader Meinhof ironically modelled itself after the extreme Lehi Zionist movement of the forties.Intially adopted the letter bomb which was introduced by the Stern Gang,a Lehi ofshoot,headed by future Israel PM,Yitsach Shamir who was involved in Assasinations of the UN's mediator Count Bernadotte and UK high commissioner Lord Moyne.

  Shamir always considered a hero in Israel ad rewarded with premiership post.

  Great show Len,

  Non Partisan?

  
  
• [3] Caitlin from Jersey City August 11, 2009 - 01:47PM

  There have been nightly cases of arson for the past six months in Berlin- people are setting fire to police cars and luxury cars in recently gentrified neighborhoods. Is this history starting to repeat itself?

  http://www.theage.com.au/world/german-radicals-turn-to-arson-20090731-e4hf.html

  
  
• [4] Kamal from Jackson Heights, Queens August 11, 2009 - 02:00PM

  What evidence is there that Baader Meinhof paterend itself after Lehi??

  Also, what's really ironic is the story Aust mentioned that one of the Baader Meinhof terrorists still alive is conflicted between his support of Palestinian terrorists and the Palestinian terrorists hero worship of Adolf Hitler - this is a particularly ironic and not uncommon predicament for those on the extreme Left as they allign with other extremists...