Talk:Red Army Faction

Rewrote the page. I have used the detailed data at http://www.rafinfo.de as a source, but the site looks somewhat dubious – at least leftist-leaning – to me. Some fact-checking might still be in order.

Also, I removed this paragraph:

The group is mostly known under the name Baader-Meinhof Gang, but this name is misleading, for, although Andreas Baader was one of the leaders of the group, Ulrike Meinhof was not. She was not second-in-command and she was not Baader's lover, as some think. Gudrun Ensslin was the second-in-command (and Baader's lover, by the way), but it is believed she was actually the brains behind the whole group.

Meinhof didn't have to be Baader's lover to be the intellectual leader. The name is not misleading and was in common use in Germany. djmutex 20:16 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)

"and killing dozens of high-profile Germans in its more than 20 years of existence. "

This seems to be an exaggeration. Should be more like "a dozen of high-profile people and another dozen of bystanders"

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I changed some details in the last part. Weiterstadt was not a secret service action but really done by the RAF - the secret service bombing of a prison was in Celle (it's called the "Celler Loch"). Also Klaus Steinmetz wasn't a terrorist but a secret service agent.