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- Baader, Andreas 1943-1977. West German
- extreme left-wing guerrilla. A former student
- activist, he formed, with Ulrike Meinhof, the
- Rote Armee Fraktion/Red Army Faction, an
- urban guerrilla organization that carried out
- a succession of terrorist acts in West
- Germany during the 1970s. Sentenced to life
- imprisonment in Apr 1977, he took his own
- life in Oct, following the failure of the
- Faction's hostage-swap attempt at Mogadishu
- airport.
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