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1/2/13, "Village Explosives Arrests Conjure Memories Of Weather Underground," newyork.cbslocal.com
"The arrest of a man and woman who were found with explosives, weapons
and bomb-making materials at a Greenwich Village townhouse was a
reminder for some of a far more destructive incident a couple of blocks
away more than 40 years ago.
Morgan Gliedman, 27, and her boyfriend, Aaron Greene, 31, were
arrested Saturday when police found a container of the powerful
explosive HMTD in their living room, CBS 2 reported. Three buildings in
Greenwich Village were evacuated as a result.
HMTD was believed to have been used during the 2005 London bombings.
The couple was arrested after the items were found in an apartment on West 9th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues.
Just two blocks to the north on March 6, 1970, a bomb actually
detonated in another Greenwich Village apartment and three people died.
That bomb was built by members of the Weather Underground – the
infamous leftist radical group that sought a violent revolution to
overthrow the U.S. government in the late 1960s. Former Weather
Underground member Mark Rudd wrote that members of the group had planned
to bring the bombs, full of dynamite and nails, to a dance for
non-commissioned military officers at Fort Dix, N.J., in an effort to
“bring the (Vietnam) war home.”
“Inexperienced and freaked-out, somebody must have crossed two wires
leading to the detonator,” Rudd wrote. “The townhouse on West 11th
Street in Manhattan exploded from within, collapsing in fire.”
Three Weather Underground members – Theodore Gold, 23; Diana Oughton, 28; and Terry Robbins, 21 – were killed in the blast.
Two others, Cathlyn Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin, survived the
explosion on another floor of the townhouse. Out on bail at the time
from charges stemming from the 1969 Days of Rage riots in Chicago, the
women fled the scene.
Wilkerson did not surrender until 1980. Boudin was arrested in
connection with the Nanuet, N.Y., Brinks armored car robbery that
resulted in the murder of two police officers and a Brinks guard....
CBS News has learned that police seized two shotguns, a flare
launcher, nine high-capacity rifle magazines, various handwritten
notebooks containing formulas, literature on how to make booby traps and
homemade weapons, and pages from a do-it-yourself manual called “The
Terrorist Encyclopedia.”
The New York Post reported Greene was a member of the Occupy Wall Street movement, but the group has denied this.
Gliedman and Greene have been charged with weapons possession."
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