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	Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN)
		The FALN (Armed Forces of National Liberation) is a clandestine organization committed to the political independence of Puerto Rico from the United States.
		The purpose of these bombings was to protest U.S. military presence in Puerto Rico, draw attention to Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States, and object to increased influence of U.S.-based corporate and financial institutions on the island.
		Clinton responded to criticism of his decision by explaining that the prisoners had already served extraordinarily long prison sentences for the crimes committed, and that none of the FALN members granted clemency had been convicted of any of the bombings or injuries and deaths associated with them.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/489.html (300 words)

	Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (Puerto Rico) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		FALN was responsible for more than 120 bomb attacks on U.S. targets between 1974 and 1983, but is no longer active.
		On March 15, 1980, armed members of FALN raided the campaign headquarters of Carter-Mondale in Chicago and the campaign headquarters of George H. Bush in New York City.
		On April 5, 11 members of FALN were arrested for attempting to rob an armored truck at Northwestern University; three were linked to the raid on the Carter-Mondale campaign headquarters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/FALN (683 words)

	Armed Forces of Puerto Rican National Liberation / Fuerzas Armadas Liberacion Nacional Puertoriquena (FALN) / Popular ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The FALN operated in the continental United States, while the Macheteros were active mostly in Puerto Rico.
		Similar to the FALN, the existence of the Macheteros became publicly known when the group sent a communiqué to the United Press International in which they claimed credit for the death of a Puerto Rican police officer on August 24, 1978.
		The capture and conviction of the individual members of the FALN and Macheteros brought an end to the reign of terror in Puerto Rico and the United States.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/faln.htm (325 words)

	Heads Up
		The FALN group was Founded in 1974 by members of three earlier guerrilla groups.
		FALN was responsible for a series of 130 bomb attacks on U.S. political and military targets between 1974 and 1983.
		Most notably, FALN is known for bombing the Newark, NJ police headquarters and City Hall, the firebombings of five New York banks and the bombing of New York City's Fraunces Tavern -- which killed four people and wounded 60.
	www.uhuh.com /reports/headsup/hu151.htm (3637 words)

	CNN - Justice blocks FBI testimony at FALN clemency hearing - September 14, 1999
		Former New York City Police Department detectives Rich Pastorella and Anthony Senft, who were seriously injured by FALN bombs, were harshly critical of Clinton's decision to grant clemency.
		Connor was upset that Ricardo Jimenez, an FALN representative who was granted clemency, appeared on "Meet the Press" Sunday and failed to apologize for the bomb that killed his father.
		The victims and their families were joined by the national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, whose condemnation of FALN clemency may represent a serious blow to the Clinton administration's efforts to maintain strong support from police organizations.
	www.cnn.com /US/9909/14/fbi.faln (714 words)

	FALN Terrorists Threaten Security Says Reno Report [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		FALN convicts never renounced violence A collective statement, signed by the FALN prisoners, not only does not renounce violence, it rationalizes it.
		A federal prosecutor familiar with the FALN case told Human Events that the FBI deserved kudos for catching these terrorists before further acts of violence were committed.
		"Because the object of the FALN conspiracy, and the conduct alleged as part of the conspiracy, amounted to an avowed intent by the members of the conspiracy to wage war against the United States, a court could appropriately find that the most analogous guideline is...
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a381eab3f3ad3.htm (2135 words)

	Gilman, other pols register clemency offer opposition
		That's the night an FALN bomb tore off the former NYPD cop's lower left leg, blinded him in one eye and left him deaf in one ear.
		He said he would support a congressional resolution "denouncing this highly improper offer of clemency to the FALN terrorists." The House will offer up the resolution when the members are called back into session next week.
		Many human rights organizations have said FALN members' prison sentences of 15 to 90 years in prison are too harsh.
	www.th-record.com /1999/09/04/tofalnco.htm (503 words)

	WorldNetDaily: FALN victim's son chastises Clinton
		Morales, a member of the FALN terrorist group who avoided U.S. justice, is currently hiding in Cuba, according to Edelman.
		Although there were no arrests in the Fraunces Tavern bombing, FALN terrorists were arrested in 1980 for their involvement in other crimes that included illegal use of weapons, seditious conspiracy, auto theft, and plotting to kidnap.
		Other FALN terrorists were arrested in 1983 for attempting to bomb U.S. military installations, auto theft and attempted armed robbery.
	www.wnd.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=13142 (879 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: When Politicians Support Terrorism (Excerpt) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		One of the reasons for the silence, congressional sources admit, is that either the lawmakers or the cop-killers and terrorists for whom they advocate are members of ethnic minorities - and Democrats and Republicans alike are afraid to raise the issue for fear of being called racist….
		Several…U.S. lawmakers have championed a domestic terrorist group, the Armed Forces of National Liberation (known by its Spanish initials of FALN) that seeks to impose a Marxist- Leninist regime on Puerto Rico and secede from the United States.
		"President Clinton made his decision to release the FALN terrorists at the same time his wife was campaigning for the Senate in New York," the Senate Republican Policy Committee reported in a policy paper.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2003/vol7n10/WhenPoliticians-en.shtml (645 words)

	FALN Prisoner Release
		The FALN defendants received sentences from 35 to 98 years for "seditious conspiracy", the same charge that kept Nelson Mandela in prison in South Africa for 27 years.
		Likewise, captive FALN prisoners are heroes to l50,000 island residents who rallied in San Juan, Puerto Rico for their release in l996 when Clinton was first presented a l0,000-signature petition for amnesty.
		Much like the freed FALN POWs, all prisoners, POWDs included, need a voice, a vote, a constituency, community support, a cause, a place, something good and greater than self to commit to and be loyal to and to never harm.
	www.november.org /razorwire/rzold/16/16013.html (1002 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: FALN a Threat, Reno Says
		The Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN, 16 of whose members were pardoned by President Clinton in August, poses an "ongoing threat" to national security, according to a September report by Attorney General Janet Reno released yesterday during a combative Senate hearing on the clemency decision.
		The FALN was involved in 130 bombings in the late 1970s and early 1980s that left six dead and many injured.
		Hatch also harshly criticized Holder and Justice Pardon Attorney Roger Adams for the department's failure to question those FALN members who were released about other ongoing criminal matters and released a letter showing that the sentences they had served would have been even longer under current sentencing guidelines.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/feed/a22684-1999oct21.htm (641 words)

	Human Events: Clinton frees anti-American terrorists
		The FALN took credit for the bomb, which they said commemorated a 1950 uprising on Puerto Rico.
		The next day, the FALN demanded independence for Puerto Rico, and that a grand jury halt its investigation of the group.
		Investigators told the New York Times that the FALN maintained files on more than 50 top executives who could be kidnapped and held for ransom.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_199909/ai_n8862368 (1373 words)

	Faln Activists Pardon Debate and Poll
		Eight were convicted of seditious conspiracy (essentially a charge of treason, but prosecutors need to show only that a defendant planned to do something), weapons charges, and other counts in connection with an armed robbery in Evanston in 1980, and plotting another.
		Bombings attributed to the FALN killed six people and wounded dozens, but the 11 offered immediate clemency were not directly involved the deaths and injuries, officials said.
		Burton said the frequent correspondence with Falcon was an "insult to the victims" of FALN bombings who have testified at recent Capitol Hill hearings that the administration did not answer their letters.
	www.4polls.com /DEBATES/activist_pardon.HTM (1283 words)

	Connections: FALN and Colombia
		The fact of the matter is that U.S. military forces staging in Puerto Rico for an invasion of Colombia would face a risk of infiltration, sabotage and guerilla attacks unparalleled since U.S. troops screamed "VC in the wire!" during Vietnam.
		Bill Clinton's capitulation in a long simmering dispute over the use of one Puerto Rican island for Naval weapons training has probably sweetened the deal for the FALN leaders, giving them a tangible victory on top of their release.
		FTW contacted a retired NYPD detective who had worked on the FALN bombings and spent most of his career in intelligence.
	www.copvcia.com /free/regional/puerto_rico.html (611 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		FALN, one of several Puerto Rican nationalist terrorist groups, set itself apart by repeatedly attacking U.S. citizens and facilities for roughly a decade.
		By utilizing terrorists based in both Puerto Rico and the Unites States, FALN was able to attacks targets in Puerto Rico, New York, and Chicago.
		FALN is a terrorist organization committed to full Puerto Rican independence from the United States.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=3229 (423 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: A Fair Deal for the FALN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Clinton also offered to reduce the sentences of two other FALN members, including one ringleader convicted in 1987 of plotting a prison escape involving guns, explosives and a helicopter, and to cancel fines imposed on three others.
		The White House correctly pointed out that the sentences imposed on some FALN members were draconian--about seven times as long as those imposed on other criminals convicted of similar crimes.
		But so is the requirement that the convicted FALN members renounce violence and terrorism if they are to be released.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/vol3n34/FALNFairDeal-en.shtml (321 words)

	Human Events: FALN leader directly petitioned Hillary for her support in freeing terrorists
		In fact, he was treated with greater deference than the victims of FALN terror, whose letters went unacknowledged by the White House and who were not contacted by the administration even when Clinton was actively weighing the clemency issue.
		Redacted copies of threat assessments the FBI made of the FALN and Macheteros confirm that there was Cuban involvement with the groups.
		A prison escape attempt plotted by the FALN to breakout a fellow terrorist is considered by the FBI one of the biggest domestic terrorism cases in the bureau's history.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_199912/ai_n8877467 (1500 words)

	WorldNetDaily: East Timor and the FALN
		Federal prosecutors have blamed FALN for 130 bombings in the United States from 1974 to 1983.
		When Bill Clinton was sworn in as president in 1993, supporters of FALN immediately submitted clemency petitions.
		Most Americans and politicians believe that the only reason Bill Clinton dusted off the six-year-old clemency appeal of FALN was to help his wife's political campaign.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14173 (1755 words)

	CNN - FALN members pose threat, FBI official says - September 22, 1999
		Eleven of the 16 jailed FALN members were released from prison 1 1/2 weeks ago.
		The FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies have privately made clear their strong opposition to the clemency decision, but Tuesday's testimony marked the first time a top FBI official made a public comment directly opposing the presidential decision.
		The FALN, translated as The Armed Forces of National Liberation, claimed responsibility for or were blamed for 130 bombings, most of them in New York and Chicago, in the 1970s and early 1980s.
	edition.cnn.com /US/9909/22/fbi.faln.01 (502 words)

	This is the Statement of William P. Newhall before the Senate Judiciary Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Because the FALN was frustrated by its inability, in any voting referendum, to persuade a significant number of its fellow Puerto Ricans of the merits of its cause.
		None of the FALN members who were recently released through the President’s grant of clemency were ever convicted of the bombing of Fraunces Tavern.
		If so, not only is it an affront to those the FALN killed and maimed, it delivers perhaps the worst message of all: near indifference to terrorist activities of all kinds and the human misery they cause.
	judiciary.senate.gov /oldsite/91599wpn.htm (547 words)

	U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee
		Although the FALN members offered clemency were not convicted of killing Americans, they are clearly associates of those who have killed Americans.
		The FALN claimed credit via a five page communiqué which was found in a phone booth at 91st and Riverside Avenue after an anonymous call was received by someone claiming to be the FALN.
		In this communique, the FALN stated that their jailed comrades and members of their organization were being mistreated in jail.
	rpc.senate.gov /~rpc/releases/1999/eb2092199.htm (954 words)

	U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee
		Prior to his freeing of the FALN terrorists, President Clinton has only granted three clemency requests out of 3,000 submitted; interestingly enough, none of the FALN terrorists had put in a formal request for clemency.
		• According to one FALN victim (Detective Senft, testifying before the House Government Reform Committee on September 21, 1999), he was personally informed by a pro-clemency "activist" that she had had a "sit-down interview" with Attorney General Janet Reno, though no documentation of such a meeting is yet available.
		In sharp contrast to the red carpet treatment extended to clemency advocates, victims and relatives of victims of FALN crimes were not invited to give their views on possible pardon of the terrorists, and instead had the door slammed in their face when they sought official access.
	www.senate.gov /~rpc/releases/1999/eb092899.htm (1599 words)

	Fallout from Clinton pardons for FALN prompts reform measure, renewed debate - February 8, 2000
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Fallout from President Clinton's controversial pardons of 16 members of a Puerto Rican nationalist group last summer prompted Republicans Tuesday to introduce a measure to reform the pardon process and require input from victims and their families.
		President Clinton was widely criticized after he granted clemency to the FALN members over the objections of law enforcement officials, and after the Justice Department consulted representatives of the FALN prisoners, but not the victims.
		Hatch and Fossella were flanked by the widow of one victim and the son of a second victim killed in the 1975 FALN bombing of a New York restaurant.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/02/08/faln.pardon (763 words)

	The New American - Clinton’s Terrorist Jailbreak - December 20, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The President’s clemency for FALN thugs opens the door to new acts of violence and exposes the hypocrisy of his supposed tough stance against terrorism.
		The granting of presidential clemency to the unrepentant terrorists of the Puerto Rican FALN stirred a storm of outrage in law enforcement circles and elicited fiery polemics from congressional critics.
		The FALN statement said "innocent victims were on all sides." That’s as close as the defiant FALN cadres ever came to contrition.
	www.thenewamerican.com /tna/1999/12-20-99/vo15no26_terrorist.htm (3413 words)

	Connections: FALN and Colombia
		The fact of the matter is that U.S. military forces staging in Puerto Rico for an invasion of Colombia would face a risk of infiltration, sabotage and guerilla attacks unparalleled since U.S. troops screamed "VC in the wire!" during Vietnam.
		Bill Clinton's capitulation in a long simmering dispute over the use of one Puerto Rican island for Naval weapons training has probably sweetened the deal for the FALN leaders, giving them a tangible victory on top of their release.
		FTW contacted a retired NYPD detective who had worked on the FALN bombings and spent most of his career in intelligence.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/regional/puerto_rico.html (611 words)

	WorldNetDaily: FALN release threatening U.S.
		The man who served as the Federal Bureau of Investigation's top domestic terrorism expert while the bureau was intensively reviewing the possible grant of presidential clemency to a group of convicted Puerto Rican terrorists says he would not have recommended their release.
		It is fair to assume that these documents included an assessment of the security risk that would be created by releasing jailed members of the FALN or Los Macheteros.
		He is familiar with both the FALN and Los Macheteros.
	www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17259 (872 words)

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