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BERLIN — She was a young leftist with a machine gun and bizarre thoughts about changing the world, but that was 30 years ago, back when Brigitte Mohnhaupt helped lead a terrorist gang whose assassinations of politicians and industrialists mesmerized postwar Germany. On Sunday, Mohnhaupt again rattled the public consciousness when she was released from prison as an unrepentant convicted murderer. Once a brazen and unrelenting mastermind for the anticapitalist Red Army Faction, or RAF, the 57-year-old inmate stepped back into a nation still agitated over a bygone era of bombings, fanatical screeds and urban guerrillas.

Baader-Meinhof gang member released Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57, was given five life sentences but will be released on probation next month after serving the minimum term under German law   Brigitte Mohnhaupt, who will be released next month. The terror group she belonged to is suspected of killing 34 people between 1972 and 1991     Times Online and agencies   A German court has approved the release of one of the last jailed members of the Baader-Meinhof gang, who has spent 24 years in prison for her involvement in multiple kidnappings and murders in the 1970s. Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57,...

DEBATE OVER RELEASE OF GERMAN RAF ASSASSIN Possible Parole for Unapologetic Terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt, serving five life sentences for her part in a deadly 1970s terrorism campaign, may be released on parole in March after 24 years in jail. Prosecutors say it's time to show mercy because she no longer poses a danger to society. Victims' relatives want her to show remorse first.     DPA Wanted photo of former RAF terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt. A German terrorist serving five life sentences plus 15 years for her involvement in a campaign of murder and kidnapping that traumatized West Germany in...