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| Ex-SLA fugitive pleads guilty to federal charges |
| 2003-02-22 |
| Former '70s radical James Kilgore, who spent decades on the run after his days with the Symbionese Liberation Army, pleaded guilty Friday to federal explosives and passport fraud charges. Kilgore, 55, was captured in South Africa and extradited to the United States in November. He was charged with possession of a pipe bomb found in his Daly City apartment in 1975, and with obtaining a passport under a false name. He faces 10 years in prison for the bomb charge and five for using the birth certificate of a dead baby to obtain a passport in Seattle under a false name. Sentencing was set for June 30. It would be nice if he spent as much time in jug as he spent on the lam... He also faces murder charges in Sacramento County for an SLA bank robbery in 1975 in which 42-year-old housewife Myrna Opsahl was killed while depositing a church collection. ... But it would be even nicer if he spent as much time in jug as Mrs. Opsahl will spend being dead... Four other SLA members pleaded guilty in November to Opsahl's murder and were sentenced last week to prison terms ranging from six to eight years. ... So he probably won't get eternity, either... Authorities said he was the last unaccounted-for member of the revolutionary group that kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst to face justice for the SLA's crimes. It'll probably take us 30 years to get the last of the al-Qaeda thugs, too. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 What did "symbiotic" meant, anyway ? I wonder if a new leftist terror generation is going to splinter from the antiglobo mvt ? According to the casual riotings, there seems to be a potential for organized political violence. In Italy, there was already at least one gvt high-ranking official murder claimed by "new red brigades" last year, IIRC. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-02-22 11:24:53 |
| #1 Could have enjoyed a happy care-free life in hideous capitalistic USA but got stuck in hot Africa, looking over his shoulder. Now he gets even MORE time (even if it's not enough). Next life he'll think twice. |
| Posted by: becky 2003-02-22 10:13:55 |