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Today, Ayers and his wife -- fellow former Weather Underground fugitive Bernardine Dohrn -- live in Hyde Park, where they moved after surrendering in 1980. Federal charges against the two were dropped because of improper surveillance, so they avoided prison. <ref>Chicago Sun-Times, ''Who is Bill Ayers? Former radical or respected prof, he's a liability if Obama's nominated, Hillary warns'', April 18, 2008, by CHRIS FUSCO AND ABDON M. PALLASCH[http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/902213,CST-NWS-ayers18.article Who is Bill Ayers?] </ref>

Today, Ayers and his wife -- fellow former Weather Underground fugitive Bernardine Dohrn -- live in Hyde Park, where they moved after surrendering in 1980. Federal charges against the two were dropped because of improper surveillance, so they avoided prison. <ref>Chicago Sun-Times, ''Who is Bill Ayers? Former radical or respected prof, he's a liability if Obama's nominated, Hillary warns'', April 18, 2008, by CHRIS FUSCO AND ABDON M. PALLASCH[http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/902213,CST-NWS-ayers18.article] </ref>

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Ayers has claimed that his actions were not terrorist acts. <ref>http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/episodic-notoriety-fact-and-fantasy/</ref> He has stated that according to the official definition of both the U.S. and the U.N., terrorism consists of violent acts intended to intimidate or coerce a populace into a political end, and that his actions were intended to draw attention to and combat the state terrorism of the U.S. in the Vietnam War. In his autobiography, Fugitive Days, Ayers claimed that his bombing of the Pentagon prevented aerial bombardments in Vietnam for several days, which he defined as terrorism. In this regard, Ayers has implied that he ''prevented'' terrorism rather than caused it.

Ayers has claimed that his actions were not terrorist acts. <ref>Bill Ayers' blog, Episodic Notoriety–Fact and Fantasy, by Bill Ayers, 4/06/2008[http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/episodic-notoriety-fact-and-fantasy/]</ref> He has stated that according to the official definition of both the U.S. and the U.N., terrorism consists of violent acts intended to intimidate or coerce a populace into a political end, and that his actions were intended to draw attention to and combat the state terrorism of the U.S. in the Vietnam War. In his autobiography, Fugitive Days, Ayers claimed that his bombing of the Pentagon prevented aerial bombardments in Vietnam for several days, which he defined as terrorism. In this regard, Ayers has implied that he ''prevented'' terrorism rather than caused it.

==Relationship with Barack Obama==

==Relationship with Barack Obama==