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Today, veterans of that network hold key positions of respect in government and academia. Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon. And the b*****ds were finally going to get what was coming to them." These words are not drawn from the diseased mind of Osama bin Laden or ot her surviving accomplices to the Black Tuesday attack. They are from Fug itive Days, the new memoir of home-grown terrorist Bill Ayers. As leader s of the Weather Underground, Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn were an important part of the world Communist movements terrorist fifth column within the United States. Now they are respected academics: Ayers is a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois-Chica go, and Dohrn teaches law at Northwestern University. On the morning of September 11th, readers of The New York Times who manag ed to get through the paper before spending the rest of the day gaping w ith horror at their televisions would have read a remarkable tribute to Ayers and Dohrn. At the time of the Black Tuesday attack, Ay ers had been planning a national speaking tour to promote his book, perh aps in the hope of inspiring another generation that would "do enough." For tactical reasons, those plans were set aside, and Ayers was left to explain how the Weathermen were an "educational" group, rather than a te rrorist organization. "We tried to sou nd a piercing alarm that was unruly, difficult and sometimes, probably w rong.... I describe what led some people in despair and anger to take so me very extreme measures. Theres nothing in the book that attempts to d efend or rationalize or preach or be a how-to. Its a story of what this one boy did in a world of flames." This self-serving description omits the fact that Ayers ignited many of those "flames." "An American Red Army" Ayers describes the Weather Underground as "an American Red Army," and it was indeed the American element of what terrorism expert Claire Sterlin g has called the Soviet-organized "Terror International." The watershed event in organizing the Soviet-sponsored global terror network was the J anuary 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana. That event brought toge ther more than 500 delegates from 83 radical groups for the purpose of f orging "a global revolutionary strategy to counter the global strategy o f American imperialism." In 1966, terrorist training camps supervised by KGB Colonel Vadim Kotcher gine were turning out graduates well-schooled in Marxist-Leninist theory , as well as the use of explosives, weapons, and guerrilla warfare. In t hose Soviet-run camps, wrote Sterling in her definitive study The Terror Network, "Castro was training the advance guard of the coming European fright decade Palestinians, Italians, Germans, French, Spanish Basques and forming guerrilla nuclei in practically every Western Hemisphere state south of the American border." Similar training camps were set up across Eastern Europe, the Middle East , and Africa, creating an army of dedicated terrorists able to "move wit h remarkable confidence across national frontiers from floodlit stage to stage, able at a word to command the planets riveted attention." From this chain of terrorist academies came many of the most violent leaders of the "Generation of 68" subversives who were instrumental in the wa ve of riots, assassinations, bombings, and other upheavals that pummeled Western Europe and the United States in that tumultuous year. While their comrades were tearing Europe apart, recalls Ayers, the Weathe r Undergounds "small street-fighting collectives" were immersing themse lves in the doctrines of Marx, Lenin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, and Che Guevara. They were also gathering weapons, learning hand-to-hand combat, and pre paring for war. In 1969, just prior to the "Days of Rage," a delegation from the Weather Underground and Students for a Democratic Society (of w hich the Weathermen were an offshoot) made the journey to Havana to plot strategy. Afterwards Ayers and his comrades embarked on a campaign of t errorism and urban guerrilla warfare without precedent in American histo ry. Between 1970 and 1972, the Weathermen carried out a string of bombings ag ainst essentially the same targets chosen by bin Ladens associates: New York City police headquarters; They also targeted ROTC buildings, draft offices, statues of "oppressors ," and corporate offices. During the "Days of Rage" in Chicago in 1969, a rampage organized by Ayers and his comrades in order to "bring the war home," hundreds of radicals stormed through the citys downtown areas, smashing hotel and store windows. The Weathermen worked in tandem with t he Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement, and other terrorist gro ups and criminal syndicates. The viciousness of the Weather Underground is best illustrated by a bombi ng they failed to pull off. In March 1970, three Weathermen including Ayers then-girlfriend, Diana Oughton were killed in the basement of t heir Greenwich Village town house when a bomb they were building explode d Although Ayers insists that his terrorist group targeted "symbols" ra ther than people, the bomb that killed his three comrades was an anti-pe rsonnel weapon tightly packed with screws and nails. The Weathermen inte nded to set it off at New Jerseys Fort Dix Army Base during a dance. Ay ers admits that the bomb would have done "some serious work beyond the b last, tearing through windows and walls and, yes, people too." The victi ms would have included the women who had been brought to the dance as da tes. Kathy Boudin, a Weatherman who survived the explosion, went on to enlist with the Black Liberation Army, an ultra-violent spin-off of the Black P anther Party. Boudin was involved in the 1981 New York Brinks Truck rob bery, in which two security guards (one of them a black man) were killed . The purpose of the robbery was to fund "revolutionary" activities acro ss the country. At the time of her arrest, it was discovered that Boudin possessed a sizeable quantity of bomb-making materials and plans for a bombing campaign against New York City police stations. Sentenced to a t erm of 20 years to life, Boudin was denied parole last August. New York Times book reviewer Brent Staples notes the irony that while Bou din confronts "the possibility of spending the rest of her middle age in prison her former comrades Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn have served no significant jail time. Both of them teach at name-brand universities and are headed for cozy retirements like those of the bourg eois parents they so despised during their Weathermen days." Ayers and Dohrn did not merely "despise" bourgeois parents; true to their revolutionary nihilist instincts, they urged their followers to murder their parents. During the Weather Undergrounds 1969 "War Council" in Fl int, Michigan, Dohrn rhapsodized about the revolutionary attitude of Cha rles Manson and his followers, who had just killed actress Sharon Tate a nd her houseguests in California: "Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. At the same gathering, Weatherman leader John Jacobs declared: "Were aga inst everything thats good and decent in honky America. After discussing the details of their terrorist c ampaign how to get weapons and build bombs, how to organize a network of "safe houses" the Weathermen adjourned to a nearby Catholic Church, where they had an orgy. After spending most of the 1970s as fugitives, Ayers and Dohrn surrendere d to federal authorities in December 1980. All charges against them were dropped because of "improper surveillance," prompting Ayers to exult th at he was "guilty as sin and free as a bird." Ayers and Dohrn, who have never disavowed their hatred for America and its traditional institution s, now focus their efforts on childrens rights and social work contin uing their subversive campaign by other means. This isnt to say that Ayers has disavowed bombing as an instrument of "s ocial change." In Fugitive Days he writes, "I cant imagine entirely dis missing the possibility" of undertaking another terrorist campaign in th e name of "social justi...
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