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Posted: 09-11-2002 18:32 Post subject: US terrorist caught in Cape

November 08 2002 at 11:39PM

The leader and last remaining member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) - a radical group that committed politically motivated crimes in the United States in the 1970s - was arrested in Cape Town on Friday.

Police spokesperson Mary Martins-Engelbrecht said James Kilgore, 55, had been on the run from the FBI for the past 26 years. South African police traced him to his home in Claremont, Cape Town and arrested him at about 7.15pm.

Kilgore had been living in Cape Town for the last five years under the name Charles Pape. He is wanted for murder, armed robbery and illegal possession of "destructive devices".

South African police began searching for him at Interpol's request about three months ago.

The most notorious of the SLA's crimes was the kidnapping of American newspaper heiress Patty Hearst in 1974. - Sapa

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