The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has a story out about the re-jailed Sara Jane Olson, aka Kathleen Soliah, with a picture showing her being very talkative and friendly with ex-Weathermen leader Bernadine Dohrn. The current events relevancy here is the Dohrn-Ayers fundraiser for Barack Obama.
There's been recent controversy about the release and quick rearrest of Olson. Here's the story with that interesting photo today from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/ 16944051.html
First of all, who was Sara Jane Olson? AKA Kathleen Soliah?
On April 21, 1975, Symbionese Liberation Army members robbed a bank in Carmichael, CA, in the process killing 42-year-old Myrna Opsahl, a mother of four depositing money for her church. Patty Hearst, who admitted to being a getaway driver during the crime, provided the original information that led the police to implicate the SLA in the robbery and murder. She also stated that Kathleen Soliah (who in her fugitive life adopted the name Sara Jane Olson) was one of the actual robbers. According to Hearst, Soliah also kicked a pregnant teller in the abdomen, leading to a miscarriage. Several rounds of 9mm ammunition spilled on the bank floor and found in Opsahl's body during the robbery bore manufacturing marks that matched that of ammunition loaded in a 9mm Browning Hi-Power semi-automatic pistol found by police in Soliah's bedroom dresser drawer at the SLA safehouse. Soliah also was indicted for setting bombs under LAPD police cars, but vanished before the trial could commence. A timeline of her life can be found at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23743392/
According to a Slate magazine writer, Bill Ayers was on Sara Jane Olson's defense fund committee. http://www.slate.com/id/2058764/ Sara Jane Olson was the name taken by Kathleen Ann Soliah, a fugitive from justice who was caught after an America's Most Wanted program.
By now you may know about the Politico story, the fundraiser Bernadine Dohrn and husband Bill Ayers threw for Obama: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/020 8/8630.html
"I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers' house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress," said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. "[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor." *
Smith notes:
But -- unlike some other fringe figures of the era -- they're [Ayers and Dohrn] also flatly unrepentant about the bombings they committed in the name of ending the war, defending them on the grounds that they killed no one, except, accidentally, their own members.
Dohrn, however, was jailed for less than a year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating other Weather Underground members' robbery of a Brinks truck, in which a guard and two New York State Troopers were killed.
"I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough," Ayers told the New York Times in 2001. [end Politico references]
I still have not seen any mention by Obama of regretting benefiting from the fundraiser, of returning the money generated, etc.
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