RAF and Guantanamo

CK - Washington.   Was German due process afforded its RAF terrorists better or worse than the Guantanamo response to terror? That is one of the many questions The Baader Meinhof Complex movie generated at its East Coast premiere last night at the AFI in Silver Spring, Maryland. Stefan Aust of the influential Der Spiegel magazine presented an eyewitness account of the Red Army Faction period and the making of the film. Unfortunately insufficiently prepared for explaining with proper legal terms matters such as detention, transcripts or due process, he inferred that German anti-terror authorities deviated from due process standards of the German legal system but not as badly as the Bush administration does with Guantanamo. Overall, the film--which plays again on Sunday--places the state, without defense counsel, next to the terrorists in the dock. In the 1970s, American police …