Red Army Faction

British

noun

another name for the Baader-Meinhof Gang

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Mr. Burke’s chapters on the alliance between the Palestinian groups and West German leftists such as the Red Army Faction are especially strong.

From The Wall Street Journal

The German police on Sunday said that they had arrested two more suspects connected to the capture last week of one of the country’s most wanted the Red Army Faction fugitives, Daniela Klette.

From New York Times

But federal prosecutors say an arrest warrant they issued long ago for Klette related to alleged activities with the Red Army Faction in the early 1990s remains valid.

From Seattle Times

Klette is one of three former Red Army Faction members whom police have been seeking for years.

From Seattle Times

Tabloid headlines about "RAF Rentner" or in English - the "Red Army Faction pensioners" - make the robberies between 1999 and 2016 sound like a TV sitcom about an elderly grandma on the run.

From BBC

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