Police seize 'Red Brigades' cache (more Left Wing Terrorism)

BBC ^ | December 21, 2003

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Italian police have raided an alleged hideout of the Red Brigades, the country's most notorious left-wing militant group. Police evacuated the entire apartment block in Rome for fear of an explosion.

They found explosives and arms as well as police uniforms and documents claiming responsibility for the killing of a labour consultant last year.

The raid follows the arrests of nine suspected members of the Red Brigades in October.

The haul found in a basement in an eastern suburb of Rome included 100 kilos (220 pounds) of explosives, detonators and guns.

Also seized were fake identity cards, police uniforms and, according to some reports, the original document claiming responsibility for last year's murder of a labour consultant, Marco Biagi.

He was targeted because he was helping to draft laws to make it easier to fire workers.

That crime and the killing of another labour adviser, Massimo D'Antona, were claimed by the New Red Brigades for the Combatant Communist Party.

They are considered the heirs to the original Red Brigades, who carried out numerous kidnappings and murders in the 1970s and early 1980s.

New targets

In October nine suspected Red Brigades members were arrested.

Many of them held regular jobs and were described by their neighbours as normal, law-abiding people.

Police investigations into the new generation of terrorists took a huge step forward after a shoot-out on a train earlier this year.

The palm top computer and cell phones of the two Red Brigades members - one of whom was killed - provided vital information on its links with the old guard and its targets.

These appear to be no longer high-profile industrialists or politicians but lesser known people who shape public policy.

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The free world is still mopping up the pockets of communist terrorists around the world.

[Jake_the_Snake_Roberts]

The Red Brigades have been very evasive for decades now. They carried lots of assassinations in the 70s and 80s. About 3 or 4 years ago the Red Brigades murdered a prominent Economist who advised the Government on economic and welfare reform, outside his apartment.


Red Brigades are very much like Greece's November 17 terrorist group, extreme left-wing Marxists who engage in murder, threats to advance their insane political agenda.

November 17 were busted earlier this year, the Greek authorities were able to capture its leader and higher echelons.

It's great to see the Italian authorities winning their war against the Red Brigades.

[Tailgunner Joe]

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