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The Black Revolutionary Assault Team was a small terrorist group that carried out a few bombings in New York City during 1971. The group first surfaced after an attack on the South African consular office at 11AM April 12, 1971, which destroyed an outer wall. The BRAT called the Associated Press and took credit for the attack claiming it was protesting apartheid.〔''Transnational Terrorism: a chronology of events'' by Edward F. Mickolaus Westport, Conn; Greenwood Press, 1980 p.258〕 BRATs second and final action took place on September 20, 1971 when it placed bombs at the UN Missions of Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) and the Republic of Malawi. The Congo bomb was placed at the top of a stairway outside the door of the second floor office of the mission. The 11:33AM blasts' main force was downward and jolted a glass panel door off its hinges and sent flying glass onto three passers-by. Nobody in the mission was hurt, but Jodie Della Femina, the three-year-old daughter of Jerry Della Femina, was struck by the flying glass and suffered six facial lacerations to the eyelid, cheek, lip and chin, necessitating 2 hours of surgery and 75-100 stitches. She also lost an upper front tooth. Her nine-year-old brother Michael and mother Barbara sustained minor injuries.〔By, E. C. (1971, Sep 21). A bomb explodes at congo mission. New York Times (1923-Current File), pp. 17-17. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/119139902?accountid=5683〕 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 low grade pipe bomb.〔By, E. C. (1971, Sep 21). A bomb explodes at Congo mission. New York Times (1923-Current File), pp. 17-17. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/119139902?accountid=5683〕 Minutes before the Congo bomb exploded Larry Pearson, and eighteen-year-old black Louis Brandeis High School student rushed into a taxi operated by Marvin Ellias. Ellias noted that the youth was nervous and "acting suspiciously", and then he heard the explosion. The cab driver alerted his dispatcher through his car radio and then drove around until he found a traffic cop who arrested Pearson. After more than five hours of questioning Pearson was charged with arson, possession of a bomb and a loaded weapon, and criminal mischief and held on $50,000 bond.〔By, E. C. (1971, Sep 21). A bomb explodes at Congo mission. New York Times (1923-Current File), pp. 17-17. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/119139902?accountid=5683〕 == See Also == *George Jackson Brigade *Óglaigh na hÉireann *Symbionese Liberation Army 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black Revolutionary Assault Team」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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