Black Revolutionary Assault Team
The Black Revolutionary Assault Team (BRAT) was a small
Activities and Armed Actions
The group first surfaced after an attack on the
BRAT's second and final action took place on September 20, 1971, when it placed bombs at the
Shortly after the blasts the United Press International received a telephone message:
The Black Revolutionary Assault Team has just bombed the Congo mission. We bombed it because it refused to allow our freedom fighters to cross their country to get to Angola.
The caller also claimed that the group had planted a bomb at the Malawi mission four blocks from the Congo site. The Malawian mission was evacuated as police found and defused a 15-inch (380 mm) low-grade pipe bomb.[4]
Minutes before the Congo bomb exploded Larry Pearson, an eighteen-year-old black
See also
References
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- ^ "Black Revolutionary Assault Team". TRAC Terrorism. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ^ Transnational Terrorism: a chronology of events by Edward F. Mickolaus Westport, Conn; Greenwood Press, 1980 p.258
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- ^ "Target blue: an insider's view of the N.Y.P.D". y Daley, Robert. Retrieved 2020-03-03.