For the past ten days, villagers living near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire have felt as though they were caught inside a high-octane thriller.

That is how district councillor Tristan Wilkinson describes the atmosphere. Few would suggest he is overstating the drama.

‘This feels like another plot twist,’ he says, pointing to America’s decision on Sunday to abruptly remove its £3.6billion fleet of B-1 bombers from the base. The move was made to protect the aircraft from being destroyed in a sophisticated Iranian drone attack.

The international crisis that has drawn global attention to this quiet corner of the Cotswolds has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster — and, depending on what happens next, perhaps a sequel. Villagers have been evacuated from their homes, police have moved against suspected terror suspects and intelligence officers have been deployed across Europe, among other extraordinary developments.

But these events are not fiction. They are frighteningly real. The question being repeated by residents is simple: what happens next? With claims and counter-claims emerging by the hour, the situation around RAF Fairford is becoming increasingly difficult to follow.

First, here is what is known so far.

Life in Whelford, a leafy village less than two miles from the base’s perimeter fence, normally moves at an unhurried pace. Some residents still remember the day a Nasa space shuttle landed at RAF Fairford in 1983. The base had been designated a Transoceanic Abort Landing site, offering an emergency landing option for shuttles because of its two-mile runway.

The United States has used RAF Fairford for decades. Yet with no shops or pub, and only a 19th-century church holding one service each month, excitement is usually in limited supply.

That changed in March, when former prime minister Sir Keir Starmer authorised Washington to use the base as a staging post for airstrikes in the Middle East. The B-1 bombers, each costing £300million, then began arriving.

RAF Fairford was suddenly in Iran’s sights, and the residents of Whelford found themselves at the centre of an intensely unsettling international crisis.

Tensions around the base had been building for months. Police numbers visibly increased after threats were issued by Tehran.

One woman who has lived close to RAF Fairford’s perimeter for about 50 years said that ‘great big concrete walls’ and vehicles had recently appeared at several entrances to the base.

In March, Seyed Ali Mousavi, Iran’s ambassador to London, told an interviewer that Tehran was considering whether British military bases should be regarded as legitimate targets because they had been used by US bombers carrying out strikes on Iran.

Residents were further alarmed in July, when Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) specifically named RAF Fairford as a potential target and threatened to attack it.

If Hollywood were adapting the events surrounding the Gloucestershire airbase, however, the story might begin with a Saturday afternoon cricket match. The game revealed just how sharply tensions had escalated and suggested that an intrusion — or something worse — could be imminent.

At about 4.30pm on September 26, armed police halted the match near the perimeter fence, citing a ‘live incident’.

One player recalled: ‘We’d played the evening before with no issue but on Saturday two guards ran to the fence with guns and said, “You can’t be here. There is a live incident going on.”‘

Previously it had been assumed that it wasn’t until eight hours later that police got wind something was afoot.

That was when a local farmer driving home in the early hours of the morning from a party, came across three seemingly abandoned white vans blocking a quiet country road.

Confused, she turned her car around then spotted a group of men in balaclavas darting through trees and across the fields towards the airbase, a few hundred feet away.

She dialled 999 and later messaged her local WhatsApp group, warning neighbours to lock their doors. Police arrived at the scene ten minutes later and arrested five young men.

Video footage recorded by a villager shows them sitting in the middle of the road with their hands behind their back in restraints. All five had been stripped of their upper clothing by police fearing they may be wearing suicide vests.

Quickly, a major incident was declared and a large emergency services presence, which included a Hazardous Area Response Team within a 400-metre cordon, was put in place. 

The first most of Whelford’s residents heard about it was when they were woken by officers banging at their doors, demanding that they evacuate their homes immediately.

With no explanation, or even time to brush their teeth, they left behind their pets and headed to the nearby Cirencester Leisure Centre, which is being used as an emergency shelter.

Julian Tudsbery and his wife were among 85 households ordered to evacuate. He answered the door in his dressing gown at 7am.

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‘There were several police, three police cars in the drive, and they said you need to evacuate, there’s been a major incident, said he couldn’t elaborate,’ said Mr Tudsbery, who had to leave his cat, Misty, behind.

With the village safely cleared, a bomb disposal robot began inspecting three white vans, two of which had open rear doors, and were surrounded by large black barrels scattered on the ground.

‘Thinking about it now, and what could have happened if they had tried to stop me from driving away, I am quite lucky,’ the farmer said.

‘A plucky amateur shouldn’t be spotting an unusual bit of activity at 1am when the air base is on high alert. I think it’s absolutely astonishing. It’s bloody preposterous that they weren’t on it and I had to phone up. It is pretty incredible, realising you had a brush with potential terrorists face to face and may have foiled a terrorist plot.’

Naturally, Iran was quickly in the frame. Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the BBC the Government believes Iran played a part in the RAF Fairford incident though he did not give further details. Iran denies involvement.

Then Donald Trump said the US had been aware that the men were ‘looking to do big damage’ and ‘we had them under view for a long time’. UK security sources, however, were quick to clarify that the arrests were neither pre-planned nor intelligence led.

The five – a 24-year-old from Camden, three men aged 23, 24 and 25 from Westminster and one aged 24 from Willesden – were detained on suspicion of explosives offences and preparation of a terrorist act but were released on police bail the following day, a decision criticised by President Trump and Marco Rubio, his Secretary of State. It was surely puzzling.

While it would be wrong to deny the farmer her moment of glory, it then transpired that she wasn’t the only public-spirited citizen to raise the alarm.

When she dialled 999, police were already rushing to the scene because someone tipped them off – one of the masked men who would soon be arrested.

That wasn’t the only curious aspect of this case. The Daily Mail’s security editor Rebecca Camber revealed that the vans did not contain explosives after all, which is why the five were so swiftly released.

So what on earth was going on? One theory is that it may have all been an Iranian-backed hoax designed to spread panic and send a message to the US about how easy it would be to carry out a bomb attack at the base.

Or was it a sinister decoy or dummy run? Questions that will no doubt be answered if the case reaches court.

Vicki Evans, senior national co-ordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, said: ‘The investigation into circumstances surrounding events in Gloucestershire is hugely complex and our specialist teams are interrogating multiple lines of enquiry. As we’ve made clear, we’re looking at all possible angles, including possible foreign state involvement.’

The plot thickened last Thursday when it emerged that a sixth man, who has dual Iranian and British nationality, was arrested on suspicion of plotting to attack the base. 

The 27-year-old was held in Westminster, central London, on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts under Section 5 of the 2006 Terrorism Act. Police said that another man, a 22-year-old, had been arrested, also in Westminster, on suspicion of the same offence.

On to the stage stepped Donald Trump again, who earlier this week pulled all 12 of America’s B-1 bombers from the base because of ‘threats’ – but didn’t elaborate on what they were.

‘There were some threats and rather than tempting the enemy – we’ll capture the enemy and beat the enemy, but why should we leave them there? So we moved them around a little bit, not very far,’ he told reporters at the White House on Monday.

When asked if there was a ‘specific threat’ that led to the planes being withdrawn, he replied: ‘Yeah, I think we can say that. They didn’t fly out by accident.’

It was also reported that such was the urgency to withdraw that the B-1s took off while refuelling aircraft were still being arranged to support the flights.

But on Monday Marco Rubio downplayed the withdrawal, saying it was not directly tied to the suspected terror plot at the RAF base.

It then turned out yesterday that it was reportedly part of something more deadly still – a separate multi-pronged Iranian plan to strike aircraft using drones and kill some of the several hundred American personnel stationed at the base.

British and American officials said the plot was modelled on the audacious drone attack Ukraine launched last year that wiped out at least 40 aircraft at five Russian bases. That blitz – described as Russia’s Pearl Harbor – was estimated to have cost Putin’s war machine £5.2billion and had cut the country’s cruise missile power by more than a third.

The complex mission involved transporting high-tech First Person View (FPV) drones concealed inside wooden pre-fab housing units loaded on to trucks. Their retractable roofs were opened remotely when the order was given to attack.

For Britain, the highly unusual decision to abruptly recall the B-1 bombers from Fairford is something of an embarrassment.

General Sir Richard Barrons, who co-authored last year’s Strategic Defence Review, defended the move saying it was the ‘prudent thing to do’.

‘We live in this cyber age, drone age where war has no geography and these bases are vulnerable again,’ he added. ‘I understand the RAF have made great strides in protecting their air bases from a drone threat… but the whole of UK civil society is now a target in the world we live in and our civil resilience is pretty poor.’

It appears then that, even with the bombers gone, the drama for the good people of Whelford will continue.

Kyrsten Sinema’s former boyfriend and security team member allegedly asked her to pay his jail bond, even after reportedly threatening to “take down” the former lawmaker. The request came about a month after he allegedly vandalized her home, causing more than $200,000 in damage.

Matthew Ammel, a 39-year-old US Army veteran, made the request through a bail bondsman, according to court documents filed Monday. The development came a week after his arrest in Phoenix for allegedly violating an active no-contact order, the Arizona Republic reported.

Ammel remains jailed in Buckeye on a $25,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 15 over allegations that he wrecked Sinema’s home in late August. He has attributed his anger to being “p—d” at the US political system.

Sinema’s attorney, Colleen Clase, said Ammel again allegedly breached the no-contact order by having a “bail bondsman call [Sinema] and ask that she post his bond,” according to a court filing reviewed by the Arizona Republic.

“This is a form of indirect contact, constitutes witness harassment and intimidation, and causes substantial concern given the recent history of threats made against her life,” Clase wrote. It is not clear when the call took place.

Prosecutors have asked a judge to raise Ammel’s bond to $100,000 in cash, citing the alleged threats against Sinema and others.

Clase also urged the court to make Ammel’s case non-bondable or set a bond “much larger” than the current $25,000 amount, pointing to his background and alleged conduct.

“The nature and seriousness of the threats, [Ammel’s] criminal history, past evidence for [Sinema’s] conduct, and the need for appropriate conditions of release if he is not deemed non-bondable need to be sufficient to protect [Sinema] and the community,” she said.

Police arrested Ammel on Sept. 29 in a Cheesecake Factory parking lot in Phoenix after receiving an alert from his GPS monitoring device.

He had left a knife at a nearby gun store to have it engraved and was waiting for the weapon to be finished. Ammel said the knife was intended as a gift for his nephew’s Marine Corps graduation.

However, the terms of Ammel’s release prohibited him from possessing a blade.

Investigators subsequently learned that he had allegedly attempted to purchase a firearm, threatened to “take down” Sinema and threatened to kill a judge in North Carolina.

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Prosecutors also alleged that Ammel “contacted military friends to build him a rifle, purchased tactical gear, and discussed funeral arrangements.” They did not provide additional details about those claims.

Ammel also refused to attend his arraignment, which had been scheduled for last Thursday.

Ammel joined Sinema’s security team in 2022 and later began a relationship with her before her divorce was finalized. He allegedly caused more than $200,000 in damage to her home in late August while she was away.

Ammel said he vandalized Sinema’s property because she refused to post a video showing soldiers helping a wounded man in Iraq.

He wanted Sinema to use her Pentagon connections to investigate why his military unit had not received the Presidential Unit Citation.

Ammel, who acknowledged that he had been drinking, allegedly threatened to destroy one piece of Sinema’s artwork every 10 minutes if she did not comply with his demand.

After she refused, he allegedly threw 22 paintings into her swimming pool. The estimated damage to the artwork was about $123,000.

He also allegedly smashed several expensive bottles of alcohol and destroyed a mirror, bringing the total reported damage to more than $200,000.

Sinema’s relationship with her former bodyguard became public after Ammel’s ex-wife of 14 years sued the former politician under North Carolina’s “homewrecker law.”

Heather Ammel accused Sinema of destroying her marriage with her ex-husband by sustaining an affair with him during their trips together around the world.

Sinema allegedly bought Ammel gifts and paid for him to receive psychedelic treatment during the home-wrecking relationship.

She invited him as a guest to a wedding and a Taylor Swift concert.

Sinema, the first openly bisexual person elected to Congress, admitted to having repeated sex with Ammel in cities across America beginning around Memorial Day 2024. Sinema didn’t seek election in 2024.

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Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas performed a waltz to “If It’s Over.”
Carrie Ann became emotional while watching the pair, saying their artistry made her feel transported. Derek praised the classic presentation, noting that it relied on beautiful ballroom technique rather than gimmicks. Bruno said Maura carried herself with regal poise and called the performance gorgeous.
Scores: 9, 8, 8, for a total of 25 out of 30.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu defended the police response to nationwide student protests after one teenager lost a hand in an incident involving a police grenade and another suffered permanent vision loss in one eye after being struck by a projectile.

Speaking in parliament Tuesday, Lecornu rejected accusations of police brutality and state repression. He said the phrase “police brutality” suggests officers had been directed to use force, according to Politico.

“What triggers police action is the occurrence of urban violence,” Lecornu said.

“Can accidents happen? The answer is yes,” he added.

Lecornu and Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez have said the police response was prompted by urban violence, arson and vandalism, while insisting that officers acted within their legal authority. Nuñez described the response as proportionate in “almost all cases.”

Lecornu also accused the opposition party France Unbowed of using the student protests to create disorder and gain political advantage ahead of next year’s presidential election.

President Emmanuel Macron called an emergency meeting with senior ministers as the government sought to address the nationwide student demonstrations and their possible political consequences.

Pressure on the French government has intensified after more than 6,500 people were arrested and hundreds injured during protests over school funding and learning conditions. Most of those arrested were minors, according to the Associated Press.

Lecornu said 215 students and 85 school staff members had been injured since the demonstrations began. His office reported that 715 police officers had also suffered injuries.

“I hope we can provide a political response to a very real anxiety among high school students,” Lecornu said.

As the prime minister spoke Tuesday, high school and university students joined demonstrators from several French unions and teachers’ organizations. Members of left-wing political parties also attended, according to Politico.

The Interior Ministry estimated that 266,000 people participated in demonstrations across France on Tuesday, including 56,000 in Paris.

The main Paris protest was largely peaceful, though smaller groups later confronted riot police, the Associated Press reported.

The protest movement began at high schools in the Paris region in mid-September before expanding across the country.

On Monday, a 15-year-old boy in northern France lost a hand when a police grenade exploded during the protests, Politico reported. A prosecutor said it was not possible to “say for certain whether the student picked up the grenade or whether it was thrown at him.”

In Tours, a 16-year-old lost sight in one eye after being hit by a projectile. The prosecutor said it may have been fired from a sub-lethal riot-control weapon used by police, according to the outlet.

Boris Vallaud, leader of the center-left Socialist group in parliament, said lawmakers from the group would introduce legislation to limit the use of sub-lethal riot-control weapons at student demonstrations. He warned that such weapons can inflict irreversible injuries, the outlet reported.

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard has reportedly been invited by Ken Urker’s family to attend a funeral service honoring him after his sudden and tragic death.

Urker was discovered unresponsive at his Louisiana home on Thursday, October 1 — the day he turned 34.

The invitation comes despite allegations from Urker’s sister Autumn, who said her brother had felt “terrified” and “humiliated” by Blanchard.

Family sources told TMZ that Blanchard has been asked to attend a funeral planned for a later date in Urker’s home state of Texas.

According to the sources, Blanchard, 35, remains close to much of Urker’s family, including his mother, Raina. His parents also reportedly do not believe she played a role in his unexpected death.

Blanchard and Urker shared a 21-month-old daughter, Aurora. While she is considering attending the Texas funeral, she also hopes to arrange a separate memorial in Louisiana so her own family and friends can pay their respects, the insiders told TMZ.

The Daily Mail has contacted Blanchard’s representatives for a response but has not received one.

Over the weekend, Blanchard also visited Urker’s casket alongside their young daughter.

Blanchard first became involved with Urker during the seven-year prison sentence she served for her role in the killing of her abusive mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. On Saturday, she attended a private viewing at a Louisiana funeral home.

Family sources told TMZ that she wore a black dress and a necklace Urker had given her to mark their second anniversary.

In an emotional moment, Aurora reportedly recognized her father and said, “Daddy.” Blanchard was later allowed private time alone to say goodbye.

Urker’s mother, Raina, along with his brother and two sisters, were also present for the viewing.

Autumn was absent from the gathering, although sources said she was in Louisiana at the time.

Her absence followed claims she made to the Daily Mail about Urker’s final phone call with her. Autumn said he told her he was “terrified” Blanchard would not be able to keep their daughter “safe,” and that he felt she had “humiliated him.”

The day after the viewing, Blanchard joined Urker’s relatives for lunch at IHOP, where the group reflected on his life and shared memories.

Urker’s family also arranged for one of his siblings to care for his dog, Parker.

On Monday, it was also revealed that Blanchard’s last text conversations with Urker were about their daughter Aurora. The former couple welcomed Aurora on December 28, 2024.

A source close to the former couple told Page Six that in the weeks prior to his death their texts were ‘normal’ and ‘basically all about Aurora’ and how they would co-parent.

‘She was talking more like a friend kind of level. Just co-parent level,’ the source said. ‘So it was like, “Hey, how’s your day going? Cool.”‘

The insider added that Blanchard avoided flirting in her texts because she knew that Urker was struggling with his mental health and wanted to give him the space to get better, despite wanting to eventually get back with him.

‘Once Gypsy accepted that [their relationship] was over is when she stopped the whole kind of relationship vibe,’ the source claimed.

Urker’s body was found at his Louisiana home last Thursday with syringes, a spoon, a holstered handgun and a ‘brown powdery substance’ nearby, according to police.

Blanchard took to her Instagram Story on Monday to thank friends, family and followers for their condolences.

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She wrote: ‘Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has reached out with love, prayers, and condolences.’

‘I’m sorry I can’t respond to every message, but please know I see them and I’m so grateful.’

Blanchard began corresponding with Urker in jail in 2017 after he watched an HBO documentary about her and decided to get in touch.

Urker proposed in 2018 only for them to split months later, after which she married special education teacher Ryan Anderson in prison.

Blanchard was granted early parole and released in December 2023, and as a free woman she divorced Anderson and reunited with Urker in 2024.

In the immediate aftermath of Urker’s death, Blanchard publicly expressed the belief he had succumbed to an overdose. 

‘I don’t know if it was intentional or not. He was not in a good state of mind lately,’ she said. ‘I’m in disbelief. I can’t think. I’ve screamed until my throat burns.’

Blanchard has further claimed Urker was ‘relentlessly cyberbullied’ before his untimely passing, in a statement provided to TMZ.

She noted that she texted him on the day of his death to wish him a happy birthday but never received a reply. 

‘Ken was an amazing father and a man who was deeply loved,’ she began, adding that Urker would ‘forever be my soulmate and my red string, a connection that time, distance, and even death can never erase.’

Blanchard said that he went through an ‘unimaginable level of public scrutiny’ while being with her and that the ‘cruelty directed toward him was something no human being should have to endure.’

She noted that the online harassment had a ‘profound impact’ on Urker.

Regarding their infant daughter Aurora, Blanchard vowed to ‘make sure she grows up knowing how deeply her father loved her.’

Blanchard said that she would also ensure her daughter knew ‘who [Urker] was beyond what strangers on the internet chose to say about him.’

Urker’s sister Autumn also recently accused Blanchard of lying about her relationship status with Urker before his death. 

In a statement to TMZ, the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office said: ‘We responded to a residence in Raceland today after receiving a call at 6.15pm. Kenan Urker, 34, was found dead upon arrival. At this time, we are continuing the death investigation.’

Family sources told the publication that Urker was discovered at home by Blanchard’s brother, Dylan.

According to People, Dylan and his wife had planned to go out to dinner with Urker before they arrived at his home.

They added that the tragic news had left both Blanchard and Urker’s families in shock.

Urker’s sister, Autumn, reportedly confirmed his death after going live on TikTok. She said her brother’s last words to her had been, ‘I love you.’

Aurora’s birth coincided with the one-year anniversary of Blanchard’s release from prison after she served seven years behind bars for her part in the murder of her abusive mother Dee Dee.

Blanchard was a victim as a child of Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy, after her mother Dee Dee forced her to pose as an invalid by remaining in a wheelchair at all times in public.

Dee Dee shaved Gypsy-Rose’s head and kept her drugged to convince the world that her daughter had muscular dystrophy and was battling leukemia.

But their warped relationship came to an end in 2015, when Gypsy-Rose’s boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, crept into their home in Springfield, Missouri, and stabbed Dee Dee to death. She was 48.

Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and spent seven years in prison before being released in December 2023 after being granted an early parole.

Bill Harris, a member of the radical domestic terrorist group that kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, has died at 81.

Harris suffered a heart attack and died at a San Francisco hospital on Sept. 10, his wife, Rebecca Young, told The New York Times on Tuesday.

Born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Harris served as a Marine in Vietnam before enrolling at Indiana University after returning to the United States.

While at Indiana, he joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War and gradually moved toward far-left politics. He also met his first wife, Emily Schwartz, a fellow student from an affluent Chicago suburb who shared his political shift. The couple married in 1971, according to the outlet.

Harris and Schwartz later relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where they joined the Symbionese Liberation Army, or SLA. The violent far-left group had drawn national attention in 1973 after assassinating Oakland schools superintendent Marcus Foster. Harris and Schwartz also helped organize the kidnapping of Hearst.

By then a senior SLA lieutenant, Harris became a central figure in the case after he and two other members broke into Hearst’s Berkeley, California, apartment on Feb. 4, 1974. According to the FBI, they dragged the 19-year-old away during a violent struggle and forced her into the trunk of a Chevrolet Impala.

Hearst was a sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley, and the granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, whose life inspired “Citizen Kane.”

The SLA initially described Hearst as a “prisoner of war” and did not demand a ransom. The group later ordered her family to fund a massive food-distribution program for poor people throughout California.

“Patricia Hearst was a symbolic target,” Harris later said, explaining the group’s choice, according to The New York Times.

“Her family was in control of a media empire that we viewed as an arm of propaganda for the United States government.”

For several weeks, Hearst was held mostly inside a closet at an SLA safe house in Daly City, where she read the group’s propaganda by flashlight.

In April 1974, the SLA released a photograph of Hearst holding a gun, along with an audiotape in which she adopted the name “Tania” and condemned her family and the establishment, the FBI reported.

Less than two weeks later, Hearst took part in the SLA’s robbery of a Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco. The episode transformed her from a kidnapping victim into a bank robber and became one of the most unusual and widely publicized criminal sagas of the 1970s.

Hearst later maintained that the SLA had coerced her into participating and that she believed she would be killed if she refused. Harris disputed that account for decades.

The SLA’s collapse began on May 16, 1974, when Harris and his wife were nearly apprehended while stealing an ammunition belt from a sporting goods store, according to the FBI.

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The couple’s getaway van led police to an SLA safe house in South Central Los Angeles. Officers surrounded the building the following day, triggering a fierce gunbattle that set the house on fire and killed six SLA members, including leader Donald DeFreeze.

The group carried out another robbery in April 1975, targeting a Crocker National Bank branch in Carmichael, outside Sacramento.

During the robbery, Emily’s shotgun discharged and killed Myrna Opsahl, a 42-year-old mother of four who was depositing church collections, according to The New York Times.

Hearst was not inside the bank when Opsahl was killed. She later testified that she had been waiting in a getaway car.

After spending more than a year on the run, Hearst and the Harrises were arrested by FBI agents in San Francisco in September 1975.

Hearst was convicted of armed bank robbery in 1976. President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence in 1979, and President Bill Clinton later pardoned her, the outlet reported.

Harris and Emily Harris served roughly eight years in prison for the kidnapping and were released in the early 1980s.

After his release, Harris divorced his first wife and built a new life as a private investigator.

In 1988, he married Young, a Bay Area defense lawyer, and the couple raised two sons in Oakland before settling in San Francisco, the New York Times reported.

It would be more than 25 years before Harris and his former wife were charged in Opsahl’s killing.

In 2002, Harris, Emily Harris and other former SLA members pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

At his 2003 sentencing, Harris apologized to Opsahl’s family for his role in her death. He was sentenced to seven years and served about four.

“If you do something and you succeed, then you’re a revolutionary of high quality and you get to be George Washington, the father of the country,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 2002. “But if you challenge power and you’re rubbed out, you’re in the trash bin of history.”

In a 2018 CNN interview, he said, “Reality isn’t always on the surface. Sometimes you have to look a little deeper to see what’s real.”

Harris is survived by Young and their sons, Cody and Shane.