Posted on 11/19/2008 4:41:41 PM PST by Cindy
We need your help in locating these four fugitives. Click on their names or photographs to see their wanted posters.
It has been 10 years since a group known as “The Family” torched a ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing $26 million in damage and drawing international attention to eco-terrorists—those who break the law in the name of the environment and animal rights.
Since that time, we’ve joined our federal, local, and state law enforcement partners in establishing Operation Backfire to bring these criminals to justice.
Our efforts have been successful, but four individuals under indictment remain at large. At a press conference in Washington today, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced an increase in the reward for the capture of these four fugitives and released the latest information we have about where they might be.
“These individuals are terrorists. Regardless of their political or social message, their actions were criminal and violated federal laws,” said Michael B. Ward, Deputy Assistant Director of our Counterterrorism Division. “The FBI has remained steadfast in the search for these individuals.”
We are offering a reward of up to $50,000 each for information leading to the arrest of Joseph Dibee, Josephine Overaker, Rebecca Rubin, and Justin Solondz, all believed to be living abroad.
We need your help to capture these criminals. Here is what we know:
Dibee was indicted in 2006 on charges of arson, conspiracy, and animal enterprise terrorism. He is believed to be living in Syria with family members.
Overaker has been on the run since 2001. She was indicted in 2004, with subsequent indictments in 2006, including for her involvement with the 1998 Vail arson. She is believed to have spent time in Germany and may have settled in Spain. She speaks fluent Spanish.
Rubin was indicted in 2006 for the Vail arson and other domestic terrorism crimes. A Canadian citizen, she has strong family ties to Canada and may be living there.
Solondz was also indicted in 2006 on charges that include arson, conspiracy, and animal enterprise terrorism. He was out of the country when he was indicted and has never returned. Solondz has traveled in Russia, China, and India.
Watch excerpts from the press conference.
The Family was a terrorist cell of about 20 people who committed crimes in the Pacific Northwest and Western U.S. in the name of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). By the time it disbanded in 2001 under pressure from our investigations, the group was responsible for at least 25 criminal actions totaling about $48 million in damages. Their crimes included vandalism, property damage, animal releases, and arson.
Because the crimes were acts of domestic terrorism, we took the lead in the investigations, working closely with our local, state, and federal law enforcement counterparts. In 2004, separate investigations were condensed into Major Case #220, otherwise known as Operation Backfire."
stepping back in time...
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan06/elf012006.htm
“ECO-TERROR INDICTMENTS
‘Operation Backfire’ Nets 11”
01/20/06
check the paid staff at ACORN for possible leads....
I thought all those terrorists stayed in close contact with their mentors.
Anyone checked who’s living in Ayers’ house or back yard?
Just a wild thought.
Dibee was indicted in 2006 on charges of arson, conspiracy, and animal enterprise terrorism. He is believed to be living in Syria with family members.
Syria? Well, isn't that an interesting locale for an granola crunching ecoterrorist.
Yep.
trivia:
Speaking of ELF:
Craig Rosebraugh and Leslie James Pickering - Founders Arissa- former ELF media spokesmen
What’s Arissa?
New Arissa Link [http://www.arissa.org/main.html]
About Arissa - Excerpts: The primary goal of Arissa is to create a political and social revolution in the United States of America. We believe that none of the single-issue problems - whether in the human, environmental, or animal categories - can be resolved until a political structure is put into place to allow for an atmosphere of change. Arissa will have reached its goal when that revolution occurs.
Our Arissa Media Services Department was formed in late 2003 to provide necessary media relations for those conducting revolutionary actions in the United States.
SAFIYA BUKHARI- Black Panther / Arissa conference speaker died in August ‘03
Laura Whitehorn-Institute for Democratic Action and Culture-Speak Out- SDS and Weather Underground, communist, terrorist / Arissa conference speaker
more ELF trivia:
Code Pink Co-Founder Jodie Evans also sits on the board of directors of Rain Forest Action Network (RAN), a radical anti-capitalist, anti-corporate coalition of environmental groups co-founded by Mike Roselle, who also founded the domestic terrorist organization Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
That’s interesting.
2008 : ( “CODE PINK FOR PEACE” COFOUNDER JODIE EVANS WORKS AS A BUNDLER FOR THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN — see RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK) A founding member of the [2008] campaign finance team of Democratic presidential nominee Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has been working with state sponsors of terrorism to undermine the United States in the global war on terror since at least February, 2003. Jodie Evans, co-founder of the leftist anti-American group Code Pink, has documented ties to governments on the State Department’s list of current and former state sponsors of terrorism including Iran, Cuba, Syria and the former Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein. She also has endorsed and worked with the so-called Iraqi resistance that has killed over three thousand American soldiers and thousands of free Iraqis. Evans is listed on the official Obama website as a bundler of between $50,000 and $100,000 in contributions. According to FEC reports, the official Obama website and news accounts, Evans has personally contributed over $40,000 to the Obama campaign—$4600 to Obama for America and around $36,000 to the Obama Victory Fund. -—————— “TOP OBAMA CAMPAIGN FINANCIER WORKING WITH STATE SPONSORS OF TERRORISM TO UNDERMINE U.S.,” FREEREPUBLIC,
by Kristinn Taylor, Friday, October 10, 2008
Such a small world.
See POSTS 8, 9, 11
Amazing, isn’t it? All these “troubles” in one teeny basket.
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