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2012 and was found guilty, receiving a sentence of four years for aiding and abetting. As two and a half years of that are considered served as part of her previous life sentence, she is expected to be released in less than a year. Tagesschau.de “Haft für Ex-Terroristin Becker wegen Beihilfe,” October 5, 2012.
    2 Dahlkamp et al., “Operation Zauber.”
    3 Werner Mathes and Rainer Nübel, “‘Verräterin’ bot RAF Selbstmord an,”
Stern,
April 25, 2007.
    4 Christian Rath, “Verena Becker will raus,”
taz,
November 19, 2009.
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    1 . Jackson, 15; Grauwacke, 59.
    2 . Jackson, 16.
    3 . Geronimo, 105; Jackson, 17, 22-27.
    4 . “Ten meters without a head.”
    5 . Peters, 528.
    6 . Viett, 220.
    7 . Indeed, female RAF prisoners who corresponded with WAIW would routinely reject this kind of politics.
    8 . Autonome und Knast-Gruppen BRD und West-Berlin, “Guerilla und Widerstand—eine ‘Front’,”
radikal
no. 108 (September 1982): 2.
    9 . Dellwo (2007), 173.
    10 .
Antiimperialistischer Kampf
“Zum Mai-Papier der RAF,” no. 3: 5.
    11 . See for instance, the
Fragment Regarding the Soviet Union
written by Gudrun Ensslin in Stammheim Prison on January 19, 1976, available at http://www . germanguerilla.com/red-army-faction/documents/76-01-19-ensslin.html.
    12 . See for instance, the September 1982 communiqué by the anti-imps who firebombed the NATO weapons depot and Faber and Schnepp in Grebenhain-Oberwald in Vogelsberg district, Hessen; “Kommunique,” in Marat, 103.
    13 .
Antiimperialistischer Kampf
, “Zum Mai-Papier der RAF,” no. 3: 8, 9.
    14 . Tolmein, 147-148.
    15 . William Safire, “Changing Relations between U.S., Bonn,”
New York Times
in
European Stars and Stripes,
March 1, 1982.
    16 . Jackson, 18.
    17 . Ibid., 20.
    18 . Ian Q.R. Thomas,
The Promise of Alliance: NATO and the Political Imagination
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997), 126.
    19 . Associated Press, “West German Bombs Precede Reagan Visit,”
The Wisconsin State Journal,
June 2, 1982.
    20 . Associated Press, “Protesters Decry U.S. Arms Policies,”
The Capital
(Annapolis, MD), June 10, 1982. As part of this campaign, Bourns Ketronic Flugtecknik in Hamburg was firebombed on June 4, and the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut in Tübingen was bombed on June 5.
    21 . United Press International, “Thousands Protest Reagan’s Visit to Bonn,”
Logansport Pharos-Tribune
, June 10, 1982.
    22 . “Summary of a Brochure by Autonomist and Anti-imperialist Groups,” in Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, 12.
    23 . Ibid.; Geronimo, 113.
    24 . “Summary of a Brochure by Autonomist and Anti-imperialist Groups,” in Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, 12-13. This source also explains that police had in fact drawn up a list of 500-800 people to arrest preventatively, but as they noted, “When the pigs came on the night before the 11th, they found houses empty. Most comrades had preferred to sleep elsewhere. Only 29 people were arrested that day.”
    25 . Alexander, 261.
    26 . Jackson, 21.
    27 . Ibid.; J.I. Kominicki, “Hecklers Fail to Dampen Berlin Welcome,”
European Stars and Stripes
, June 12, 1982; Grauwacke, 73-74.
    28 . Alexander, 261.
    29 . “Redebeitrag: Zur Entwicklung der Antiimperialistischen Front in der BRD seit Bremen,” in Marat, 99.
    30 . Grauwacke, 74.
    31 . Alexander, 264.
    32 . Ibid., 263-264.
    33 . Ibid., 265.
    34 . Mushaben, 220. These observations about social movement dynamics seem è propos: “the reactions of established political actors typically reinforce divisions among the activists, which leads to a twin process of moderation and radicalization,” (Koopmans, 645) and subsequently, “The presence of a radical minority may in turn strengthen the moderate faction’s tendency toward moderation and institutionalization.” (Ibid., 655).
    35 .