[Vision2020] Did Ayers' wife kill policeman?

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Sun Oct 19 06:24:27 PDT 2008


Did Ayers' wife kill policeman?
FBI report said Dohrn named as bomb builder, planter
Posted: October 16, 2008
(c) 2008 WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON — While defenders of unrepentant Weather Underground
terrorist Bill Ayers cling to the rationalization that he never killed
anyone during a spree of bombings in the 1970s, his wife, Bernardine
Dohrn, built and planted the bomb that killed a San Francisco police
officer in 1970, an FBI report claimed.

Ayers and Dohrn are the subjects of new attention because they helped
launch Barack Obama's political career in their living room. Ayers
served with Obama for years on two foundation boards, while Dohrn
worked in a law firm with Michelle Obama. They also contributed
financially to Obama's first campaign for political office.

While Ayers himself has never been implicated in a death among the
high-profile bombings of the Capitol, the Pentagon and several other
targets of the Weather Underground he served as a leader, it's not
true that there were no fatalities associated with the attacks.

On Feb. 16, 1970, Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell of the San Francisco Police
Department was killed by shrapnel from an anti-personnel bomb planted
on a window ledge at the force's Park Station. The pipe bomb was
filled with heavy metal staples and lead bullet projectiles. Another
officer, Robert Fogarty, received serious wounds to his face and legs,
and was partially blinded in the attack.

Dohrn, then living in a Weather Underground cell on a Sausalito,
Calif., houseboat, has long been suspected of involvement in the
bombing.

An FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl, who successfully penetrated the
organization from the late summer of 1969 until April 1970, later
testified to a U.S. Senate subcommittee that Ayers, then a
high-ranking leader of the organization and a member of its Central
Committee (but not then Dohrn's husband), told him Dohrn constructed
and planted the bomb.

Grathwohl testified that Ayers had told him specifically where the
bomb was placed (on a window ledge) and what kind of shrapnel was put
in it. Grathwohl said Ayers was emphatic, leading Grathwohl to believe
Ayers either was present at some point during the operation or had
heard about it from someone who was there. In a book about his
experiences published in 1976, Grathwohl wrote that Ayers, who had
recently attended a meeting of the group's Central Committee, said
Dohrn had planned the operation, made the bomb and placed it herself.

Grathwohl recounted in his report that Ayers complained to other
Weather Underground operatives that they were not contributing enough
to the bombing campaigns, pointing out that Dohrn built the bomb and
planted it herself.

While Obama has attempted to distance himself from Ayers and Dohrn,
WND columnist Jack Cashill has made the case that the college
professor and radical education activist may have even ghost-written
the presidential candidate's first book, "Dreams From My Father."

Obama has said variously that Ayers was just someone who lived in his
neighborhood, that he didn't know he was the notorious Weather
Underground leader during his long association and that he assumed he
had been "rehabilitated." Ayers and Dohrn have never condemned their
terrorism spree. In fact, Ayers was quoted in the New York Times Sept.
11, 2001, as saying he was sorry he hadn't done more. Ayers had
previously described his reaction to being cleared of all charges due
to a technicality this way: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird — America
is a great country."
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