Radical Chic: NY Times Relaunches Magazine with Hagiography of Terrorist Helper Lori Berenson

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:04:00 +0000

Clay Waters

American Lori Berenson, middle-class Manhattanite turned foreign terrorist helper, was sentenced to life in prison in Peru in 1996 for housing Marxist terrorists of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), which took part in assassinations, kidnappings, and bombings during the 1980s and 1990s. Berenson let them use her apartment as a storehouse for ammunition. Standing before police, she exclaimed in Spanish: "There are no criminal terrorists in the M.R.T.A. It's a revolutionary movement!"

Radical Chic: Times Relaunches Magazine With Hagiography of Terrorist Helper Lori Berenson

admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:20:00 +0000

For the third time in 10 months the Times sympathizes for Manhattanite girl turned Peruvian terrorist helper Lori Berenson, this time with a magazine portrait by novelist Jennifer Egan: "Such an outpouring of rage at a 40-year-old woman, mother to a toddler, who was convicted in her mid-20s of abetting a terrorist plot that never took place...."

Clay Waters