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...Senzani's apartment provided new insight into the fissures dividing the Brigades. Since the killing of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978, the group has split into two factions: the "militarists" who espouse the killing and kidnaping of all perceived enemies, and the "propagandists" who contend that terrorist tactics-including killing-must actually undermine state institutions. The dichotomy is believed to run through the five major Brigades columns, in Rome, Turin, Milan, Genoa and the Veneto area...
...latest surge of terrorist activity has spread uneasiness throughout Italy, yet there are distressing signs that the Red Brigades still enjoy latent sympathy among younger Italians. In a poll of 20-to 24-year-olds by the newsmagazine L'Expresso, 21% believed that the Red Brigades were fighting for a better society, while 35% felt that the terrorists had the right ideals but were using the wrong means to achieve them. Only 27% said they would inform the authorities if they knew someone who was a terrorist...
...that authorities have received from Dozier's captors, and a separate 188-page document accompanied the photo. The rambling tract, titled "Strategic Directives December 1981," was the first discussion of the Red Brigades' new policy of violent confrontation with NATO. It also called on other left-wing terrorist groups to unite in the struggle and implied that efforts had been made to infiltrate the pacifist movement in Italy...
...When you hear about a terrorist attack on an Israeli family, where children are killed, do you feel pity...
...founded to provide foster families and education for the 313 children who lost their parents in the Tel Zaatar massacre of 1976. A year before that, 27 Palestinian residents of the Tel Zaatar camp were slaughtered by Christian Phalangists as they returned by bus from a rally celebrating a terrorist attack on Qiryat Shemona. In 1976 the Phalangists used 75-mm and 155-mm howitzers for a seven-week siege of the camp in which 3,000 died. Tel Zaatar was demolished...