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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.

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A German court on Monday ordered the release of Brigitte Mohnhaupt, a former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) who has spent 24 years in prison for her involvement in multiple kidnappings and murders in the 1970s. The decision, which came after a request by Mohnhaupt for early release, is likely to cause a storm in the country, notably because she has expressed no remorse for a murderous RAF campaign which shook West Germany's new democracy to its core. The ruling comes as President Horst Koehler considers a pardon for Mohnhaupt's former RAF colleague Christian...

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,...