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http://www.guardian.co.uk...guerrilla-freed-from-jail

1970s US terrorist Sara Jane Olson to be freed• Symbionese Liberation Army member put bombs under police cars
• Fugitive hid as housewife for two decades before 1999 arrest

Sam Jones and agencies guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 17 March 2009 12.54 GMT Article history
Ex-Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson in court in 1999, after 24 years on the run. Photograph: Nick Ut/AP

A radical 1970s guerrilla who spent almost a quarter of a century living a life of quiet domesticity as a Minnesota housewife before police finally arrested her will today be released from prison.

Sara Jane Olson, a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, who pleaded guilty to placing pipe bombs under Los Angeles police cars and participating in the deadly robbery of a Sacramento bank, has served half of her 14-year sentence.

The 62-year-old was released by mistake a year ago after California corrections officials miscalculated her parole date, joining her family for five days before she was rearrested. But state authorities are now satisfied that she can be set free.

Olson is today scheduled to leave the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, in the heart of the state's farm country about 150 miles south-east of San Francisco.

One of her lawyers, David Nickerson, said his client was likely to head to her mother's home, in Palmdale, after she was freed and had checked in with her parole agent in Los Angeles county.

Olsen will then be allowed to fly home with her husband, Dr Gerald "Fred" Peterson, to St Paul, Minnesota, unless corrections officials want her to serve her parole in California.

Critics have been urging the state's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to make Olson serve her parole in California.

On Monday the California senator Jeff Denham wrote to Schwarzenegger pointing out that the bank robbery had occurred in the state and asking for Olson to be barred from returning to her adopted home state.

In the 1975 robbery of Crocker National Bank near Sacramento, Myrna Opsahl, a 42-year-old mother of four who was trying to deposit a church collection, was killed by a shotgun blast.

"[Olson] fled the state, changed her name, and lived a leisurely life of lies and deception in Minnesota, while the children of Myrna Opsahl were forced to grow up without a mother," Denham wrote.

But her lawyers argue that she should be allowed to return to the place she considers to be her home.

"Everyone she knows is in Minnesota," Nickerson said. "The statute says she is to be paroled to the place where she has the best chance to succeed. That's where her family, friends and home are. She has served her time; she has paid her debt. Now they want to punish her some more. This is just being vindictive."

Schwarzenegger has deferred to the corrections department.

"We kind of let them continue taking care of those issues and they will find the right solutions for the problem," he said yesterday.

If she is allowed to go home, Olson is likely to slot back into the kind of comfortable, middle-class lifestyle she once denounced as a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

In Minnesota, Olson developed an identity that was worlds apart from her California past. She became involved in social causes and acted in community theatre while raising the couple's three daughters. The Olson home, nestled in a neighbourhood populated by lawyers, doctors and professors, was a frequent dinner party venue.

Her past resurfaced in 1999, when she was arrested while driving a minivan after she was profiled on the television show America's Most Wanted.

The SLA, a band of mostly white, middle-class young people, was best known for kidnapping the newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. It also claimed responsibility for killing the Oakland schools superintendent Marcus Foster. Five SLA members were killed in a gun battle with Los Angeles police.

The group adopted a seven-headed snake as its symbol and the slogan, "Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people".

All but one other former SLA member were released from prison after pleading guilty in 2002 to taking part in the Sacramento bank robbery.

"We were young and foolish. We felt we were committing an idealised, ideological action to obtain government-insured money and that we were not stealing from ordinary people," Olson wrote in an apology before her sentencing for the bank robbery. "In the end, we stole someone's life."