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Another one of Bill Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s terrorist comrades is being released on the streets of America. Sara Jane Olson, a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), an off-shoot of the Weather Underground, has served only seven years for involvement in the murder of a bank customer and the attempted murder of Los Angeles police officers by bombing their cars. Meanwhile, justice continues to be sought for the victims of Weather Underground terrorism such as San Francisco Police Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell, who was killed by a bomb on February 16, 1970. Former FBI informant Larry Grathwohl has...

Jon Opsahl said he doesn't think domestic terrorist-turned-housewife Sara Jane Olson served nearly enough time for his mother's murder, but he's relieved the saga ended with Olson's Tuesday release from prison. Sara Jane Olson was released from a California prison Tuesday after serving seven years. Sara Jane Olson was released from a California prison Olson, a member of the self-styled revolutionary Symbionese Liberation Army -- perhaps best known for kidnapping Patricia Hearst -- was released from a California prison after serving seven years, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. She was released to her husband just after midnight...

The Los Angeles City Council is scheduled to consider a resolution today that calls on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to ensure that former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson completes her full sentence in state prison. The agenda item, sponsored by Councilmen Dennis Zine and Greg Smith, is supported by the Los Angeles Police Protective League. The police union's president, Tim Sands, said the police union does not "believe those involved the taking of another life, or in attempting to kill police officers, should be entitled to any special breaks. If being young and stupid were to become a legitimate...

Sara Jane Olson's release from prison and sudden return to custody may have caused lasting psychological damage and she should be released at once because her right to due process was denied, her lawyers contend in a petition filed Tuesday in Sacramento, Calif. Olson's attorneys said the California Board of Parole Hearings acted illegally last week because it never revoked or suspended Olson's parole -- steps that would require a hearing. California corrections officials blame her early release on a calculation error caused by a failure to read an entire transcript. They say she legally has another year left to...

The Schwarzenegger administration has announced it will launch an investigation to determine how Sara Jane Olson, a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, was released from prison two years early. No doubt they are looking for some lowly bureaucrat to skewer. They should look at themselves and other elected officials instead. The real culprits in the mistaken release of Olson are pandering politicians. In their zeal to appear tough on crime, lawmakers and governors past and present have burdened the state with an impossibly complex set of sentencing rules. Given that system, the mistake in the Olson case was...

California corrections authorities on Monday began investigating the premature release of former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson, who was imprisoned for a murder committed by the radical group and attempted bombings of police cars in the 1970s. State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton said the probe was being handled by the department's internal affairs division. Olson, 61, was released March 17, a year early. She was intercepted at Los Angeles International Airport Friday night and returned to prison on Saturday. In 2001, Olson pleaded guilty to attempted bombings of Los Angeles police cars in the...

Before checking your iPhone in line at the locally owned coffee shop was thought cool, long before counter culture became pop culture, and before the People’s Republic of Berkeley became the quintessential role model of liberal college students, hippie disgruntlement was a bloody affair. Unbeknownst to the present generation of Prius owners, in the 1970s the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a group of militants, defined the anti-establishment attitude for which Berkeley has a reputation. A far cry from today’s idea of sticking it to the man by petitioning the Olympic committee to add Ultimate Frisbee as an official event, it...

Ex-Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive Sara Jane Olson, released this week after serving time for trying to bomb police cars, is back in custody, according to authorities.

Just heard the tail end of report, she was attempting to get on an aircraft to head home I believe.

CNN) -- A 1970s radical who spent years as a housewife while on the run from the law has been released from prison in California. Sara Jane Olson, a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, had been serving time for her role for incidents in 1975 -- the attempted bombing of two police cars and the shooting death of a customer during a robbery of a bank. Prosecutors say she was part of an SLA plot to murder two Los Angeles police officers by planting bombs under their cars but that the bombs did not go off and no...

LOS ANGELES - The former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive who hid for years by posing as an ordinary housewife has been released from prison after serving time for trying to bomb police cars, corrections officials said Thursday. Sara Jane Olson, formerly known as Kathleen Soliah, walked out of the Central Women's Facility in Chowchilla on Monday, said Bill Sessa, a state Department of Corrections spokesman. In 2001, Olson pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempting to bomb police cars in 1975 with the SLA, the group best known for kidnapping newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. Olson...