That's just the dumbest excuse I've ever heard. They admitted that they set bombs to avoid killing people. Maybe that's true, but, anytime you play with stuff like that, why would you be surprised that someone would/could get hurt or killed? It doesn't make you any less responsible.
***They admitted that they set bombs to avoid killing people.***
Nonsense! The bomb that accidentally went off in their Manhattan apartment, killing several Underground members, was wrapped in a layer of NAILS! You don’t put nails in a bomb unless you are trying to kill and wound people.
I know you are just being accommodating in debate, but there is not a chance in hell that it's true.
If you want to symbolically blow up a buiding you put some dynamite in it. It's simple, does some structural damage and won't hurt anyone not near the explosion. Remember the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion? The Weathermen were assembling a nail bomb (dynamite wrapped with roofing nails) that blew up on them. The sole purpose of adding the nails is to kill people. They have no other use in bomb making.
They had planned to use this particluar bomb at an NCO dance at Fort Dix. They are lying. They meant to inflict the most possible bodily injury on people, and they are not sorry about it.
In the spring of 1974, the Weathermen claimed credit for a bomb that exploded on the 29th floor of the Gulf Building in Pittsburgh. It was left behind a reception desk by the elevators. It exploded in the evening but I forget exactly what time.
My boss was working late that night on the 28th floor. He was in a corner office far enough away from the explosion so wasn't hurt. But he may have been hurt had he chosen that moment to leave work and waiting for the elevator a floor below.
Someone from the cleaning crew may have been hurt severely or even died had they been vacuuming or dusting right where the bomb went off.