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Santa Cruz -- The devices used in two firebombings targeting UC Santa Cruz biologists are similar to some used in the past by animal rights activists, investigators said Sunday. The bombs were so powerful they were like "Molotov cocktails on steroids," said Santa Cruz police Capt. Steve Clark.One struck the home of assistant biology Professor David Feldheim on Saturday morning, forcing him to flee with his family. The other exploded just a few minutes earlier, gutting a car parked outside the campus home of a second researcher.Later, Santa Cruz County sheriff's deputies went to the home of a third researcher...

SANTA CRUZ — Firebombs were intentionally set on a porch and in a car belonging to two UC Santa Cruz researchers in separate incidents early Saturday in what police have classified as acts of domestic terrorism. Police are calling one of the bombings an attempted homicide. In one incident, a faculty member's home on Village Circle off High Street was intentionally firebombed about 5:43 a.m., according to police. The residence belonged to UCSC researcher David Feldheim, a neuroscientist who works with mice. He was one of 13 researchers listed in threatening animal rights pamphlets found Tuesday in a downtown coffee...

For a number of years now, the DC Police Department has been afraid to do the job that we the citizens hired them to do. Fear of lawsuits brought by various radical, leftist, socialist and anarchist groups has for years rendered the DC Police Department impotent in carrying out their duties; but that may have changed this week. On Monday, May 5, 2008, officers of the Montgomery County (MD) Police, DC Police and US Park Police coordinated a search of the home of well-known DC radical (and bicycle messenger/delivery boy), Luke Kuhn (aka "Wook"). While officers were executing the search...

Santa Cruz, Calif. (AP) -- The FBI is investigating possible links between animal-rights activists in Southern California and a weekend attack on the home of a University of California, Santa Cruz researcher. Patti Hanson, an FBI spokeswoman, said the bureau was looking into possible connections to "domestic terrorism." A demonstration by six masked protesters in front of the UCSC scientist's Westside home Sunday afternoon turned violent when the group pounded on the door and were confronted by the researcher's husband, police reported. The incident invited comparison to recent attacks on UCLA researchers that were linked to animal-rights groups. No one...

They said it wasn't terror, but it was. Muslim student pipe bombers with mysterious liquid (fireworks, my ass)  tied to terror search and Ramadan Shallah and Tarik Hamdi (hat tip Bill Warner) RAMADAN ABDULLA IS FBI MOST WANTED TERRORIST Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah is wanted for conspiracy to conduct the affairs of the designated international terrorist organization known as the "Palestinian Islamic Jihad" (PIJ) through a pattern of racketeering activities such as bombings, murders, extortions, and money laundering. Shallah was one of the original founding members of the PIJ and is presently the Secretary-General and leader of the organization, which...

...the University of New Mexico's African American Studies Program director says he's thrilled to have two of the Black Panther Party's founding members teaching at UNM this year. David Hilliard will begin teaching Tuesday ... through May. Elaine Brown, the only woman to chair the Panther party, will serve as a visiting lecturer. "Having them teach at UNM is unprecedented— all positive," Coleman said. The Black Panther Party, which was founded in 1966 and ended about 1980, is often remembered as a fist-raising group that took on the government, the police and anyone who stood in the way of its...

by Mark Finkelstein June 23, 2006 Even before the evidence on Haditha is in, Jack Murtha was ready to accuse American Marines of 'cold-blooded' killings. But let terrorists plan to kill Americans, and - what do you know? - liberals are quick to ascribe their acts to everything from poverty to insanity. Norah O'Donnell was the guest host on this evening's Hardball. Discussing the arrest of seven alleged domestic terrorists charged with plotting to blow up the Sears Tower among other targets, O'Donnell asked her panel of 'Hardball Hotshots': "where is this hatred coming from?" Mike Barnicle was first to...

CROW CANYON - Alameda County Sheriff's deputies are trying to find out who sprayed the initials "ALF," along with some other graffiti, first discovered Saturday at a Castro Valley horse boarding ranch. "ALF" could stand for Animal Liberation Front, a group that goes after organizations and corporations they suspect of animal abuse. ALF has been called a terrorist group by the FBI. But Sheriff's Lt. Bill Gaudinier said neither his office nor the FBI have yet connected group members to the vandalism. Sheriff's investigators also have not ruled out involvement by that group. The first example of graffiti was reported...

Some 60 Greenpeace student activists protested at the Knoxville offices of paper products manufacturer Kimberly-Clark, calling on the company to use recyclable fibers rather than wood from virgin forests. "We’re here today to send a message to Kimberly-Clark, the largest maker of tissue paper in the world, that we want them to stop wiping out ancient forests to make disposable products like Kleenex," said Ginger Cassady, Greenpeace forests campaigner from San Francisco. A statement released by Kimberly-Clark, which has administrative and accounting operations in Knoxville, said the company maintains "strict corporate policies that emphasize sustainability and sound environmental practices as...

Several gang members in Los Angeles, some known for statements of braggadocio, said they are going to riot if the scheduled execution takes place. “Took die, the city fry,” said Raymond “The Hatchet Man” Locket, a member of the West Side Harlem Crips, who says he knew Tookie back in the day. “That’s the word on the streets.”

Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front...domestic terrorists. Christopher W. McIntosh, 23... faces eight to 10 years in prison...was motivated to make a deal because the government threatened to invoke an anti-terrorism statute and seek a mandatory minimum of 30 years... Fire broke out at the McDonald's restaurant...when the restaurant was closed. Evidence collected at the scene, including fingerprints and DNA, linked McIntosh to the arson...fingerprints found on a can of spray paint left there matched McIntosh's. McIntosh admitted he carried several gallons of gasoline onto the restaurant's roof and set it on fire... that same day, McIntosh placed an...

During G-8 protest, riot team was on a different frequency. A communications glitch left a San Francisco police officer and his partner alone to confront a splinter group of anarchist demonstrators in the Mission District, an altercation that ended with protesters inflicting a head injury on one of the officers, police said Monday. Police promised to fix the breakdown in the dispatch system, which resulted in 100 officers -- dressed in riot gear and assigned to Friday night's protest against the Group of Eight summit -- unaware for several critical minutes of the brewing confrontation involving Officer Peter Shields. "If...

A San Francisco police officer was in serious condition with a head injury and three suspects were in custody Saturday following a demonstration by anarchists who broke windows in the Mission District to protest the gathering of the Group of 8 leaders in Scotland. Police did not release the name of the officer who was hurt in Friday night's melee. Deputy Police Chief Greg Suhr said Saturday that the officer was in serious but stable condition with brain swelling at San Francisco General Hospital. He has developed a blood clot, which doctors hope to dissolve before he is released, Suhr...

Jerrold Nadler's Two Faces on Terror By Jacob LaksinFrontPageMagazine.com | June 13, 2005Last Friday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Patriot Act had already been adjourned, but Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic blimpish congressman from New York and one of the leftmost members of the House Judiciary Committee, was too wound up to care: “We are not besmirching the honor of the United States, we are trying to uphold it,” bellowed the hefty Nadler. By this, Nadler meant to defend his attacks on the alleged abuses of the (in fact) privileged  prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Thanks to the efforts of the...

Twenty years ago this Friday, Philadelphia became "The City That Bombed Itself." On the evening of May 13, 1985, in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia, police dropped explosives onto the headquarters of the radical group MOVE. The explosion started a fire that city officials allowed to burn. When the blaze was out, 61 homes were gone and 11 people, five of them children, were dead inside MOVE headquarters.

Cheers erupt as 30,000 bottles worth of Spanish wine gush out of the hijacked tanker, pumping a blood-red river down the street of a village in the south of France.In front of our eyes, the region's wine "terrorists" - blamed for a string of recent bomb and incendiary attacks - have struck again.Clearly shaken, the tanker's Spanish driver looks on as about 100 angry wine-growers force his younger assistant to unscrew a silver wheel on the tanker's roof to release its pungent load."I count myself lucky," says the driver, Francico Paque, 42, who was asleep in his cabin earlier when...

GOSHEN -- Four SUR 13 gang members and one of their friends wanted some respect Saturday night. An associate had been attacked a few days before by a member of a rival gang, and the SUR 13s wanted to get even. So when they saw members of the Vatos Locos at the fairgrounds, they decided to go get a gun. When they got back to the fairgrounds, the victim of the earlier attack was in another car. He pointed out a car carrying four VLs. The SUR 13s chased that car, and one of them opened fire, pumping several shots...

<p>The sign that got Code Pinko leaders Medea Benjamin and Gael Murphy so upset that day.</p> <p>Bush says Code Red, we say... (crowd) Code Pink!</p> <p>So I wanna address that sign over there, and those people who have been standing there for hours with a sign that says “Code Pink kills American troops, giving money to terrorists.”</p>

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Investigators said Thursday they have made an arrest in one of three recent alleged eco-terror arsons east of Sacramento. Ryan Daniel Lewis, 21, of Newcastle, was arrested at his home Wednesday and charged with the Jan. 12 attempted firebombing of a commercial building in the nearby Sierra foothills city of Auburn, northeast of Sacramento. The FBI and U.S. attorney's office said the arson attempt was believed to have been committed on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front, a shadowy environmental extremist movement. No arrests have been made in a similar attempted firebombing at a subdivision in nearby...

Letters sent to Gold Country Media newspapers claiming to be from the eco-terrorist Earth Liberation Front and declaring responsibility for the recent firebomb plantings in Lincoln and Auburn were reportedly sent by an Emma Goldman from Sacramento. Letters were received Jan. 18 by the Lincoln News Messenger and Auburn Journal and on Jan. 19 by the Roseville Press-Tribune. Only the letter sent to the Journal was opened and the others were turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigations. "We appreciate the newspapers' cooperation," said Karen Ernst, spokeswoman for the Sacramento FBI office. "We are not going to comment on...

Ceres Police Chief: Officers In Danger From Gang Members Officers Now Carrying High-Powered RiflesPOSTED: 4:25 pm PST January 25, 2005 UPDATED: 4:40 pm PST January 25, 2005 CERES, Calif. -- Two weeks after two officers were gunned down in the city of Ceres, its police chief says gang intelligence has made it clear his entire force is still in danger. And that threat has officers armed with more high-powered assault rifles. Ceres police officers have always had assault rifles in their backseat, but now, the high-powered weapons are being carried everywhere for protection. "The gang members have made it very...

OCALA - New details emerged in court Tuesday about an Ocala man charged with illegal possession of ricin, a deadly toxin that can be used for bioterrorism. A search of Steven Michael Ekberg's home computer turned up terrorism-related materials, an FBI agent testified at a preliminary hearing in Ocala. Ekberg, 22, was arrested Jan. 13 and charged with illegal possession of ricin, a toxin with no known antidote and so lethal that an amount the size of pinhead can kill. FBI Special Agent Pamela Piersanti testified Tuesday that investigators seized Ekberg's computer at the time of his arrest. They found...

MOORE, Okla. -- Authorities said Tuesday that the Wal-Mart store in Moore was evacuated Monday after three separate fires were set inside the store. About 300 customers were forced to leave the store at about 6:30 p.m. Monday, but no injuries are reported.excerpted - read more at: channel 5's web page.

An era defined by defiance Joy Powell, Star Tribune Staff Writer January 17, 2005 It was 1968 when 17-year-old Larry Clark led about 400 students in a sit-in at St. Paul Central High School. Some sang, some played cards, some listened to transistor radios blaring the likes of Jimi Hendrix. The era was one of defiance for many young people in the Twin Cities area and throughout the nation. But Clark and his friend Ronald (Ronnie) Reed went far beyond sit-ins, some say, to an extreme that allegedly included the ambush slaying of a St. Paul police officer. Reed and...

For decades, who executed St. Paul police officer James Sackett was considered to be an open secret. But making the case of a 1970 ambush killing that came during a fiery time of race riots and open hatred toward police would be "a long, slow process of hard investigation," predicted the police chief at the time. Prosecutors and police unsealed indictments Saturday against two men who were suspects almost from the beginning. Authorities wouldn't say what the break in the case was, but hinted at the testimony of witnesses who hadn't come forward or been willing to talk. "I don't...

In a case that has tormented the St. Paul Police Department for 34 years, two men were arrested Friday in the May 22, 1970, ambush murder of police officer James Sackett as he responded to a call of a woman giving birth in the Summit-University area. The FBI Fugitive Task Force and Minneapolis police arrested Larry Larue Clark, 53, in Minneapolis and booked into the Ramsey County jail pursuant to a sealed indictment, said St. Paul police spokesman Paul Schnell. Authorities arrested Ronald Reed, 54, at about 9 p.m. in Chicago. He was being held in Illinois, Schnell said. Sackett's...

ST. PAUL--Investigators say the 35-year-old unsolved murder of a St. Paul police officer is now solved. Officer Jim Sackett was ambushed while he and his partner responded to a call about a woman having a baby. Sources involved in this exhaustive investigation tell 5 Eyewitness News St. Paul Police and the FBI have two suspects in custody. 53-year-old Larry Clark and 54-year-old Ron Reed were arrested Friday night. They have been the prime suspects in this case since 1970. Both men were indicted by a grand jury this week in St. Paul. Clark was arrested in Minneapolis. Ron Reed was...

David Hensley The three people accused of vandalizing North Carolina’s GOP headquarters have reconsidered their decision to represent themselves. Melissa Brown, David Hensley and Vanessa Zuloaga all appeared in court Monday. The three are charged with causing $5,000 worth of damage to the building on November 5. In an earlier court appearance, Zuloaga waived her right to council but Monday morning, all three requested court appointed attorneys. Melissa Brown A group of supporters also showed up at the courthouse. Supporter James Robertson said, "This is the equivalent of what goes on in a drunken Friday night at most frat...

THREE ALBANIAN AMERICANS FOUND IN A MASS GRAVE IN SERBIA     Ossining, New York, July 14, 2001—The story leading up to the discovery of documents on the bodies of Agron, Mehmet, and Ylli Bytyqi in a mass grave in Petrovo Selo, Serbia, began on July 2, when the Albanian American Civic League held a book signing and reception in Yonkers, New York, in honor of General Wesley Clark, NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe for the critical role that he played in putting a stop to Slobodan Milosevic’s decade-long genocidal march across Southeast Europe. During the question-and-answer session that followed...

<p>A California Institute of Technology graduate student was arrested Tuesday in connection with last summer's vandalism of 125 sport utility vehicles and fires set at a San Gabriel Valley auto dealership in apparent support of the Earth Liberation Front, the FBI said.</p>

Tribute recalls fallen Black Panthers Ceremony held in remembrance of 2 UCLA students killed 35 years ago -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UYEN DINH/Daily Bruin Former Black Panther member Joe Rice speaks in front of Campbell Hall, where two UCLA students were shot and killed 35 years ago. A silent march and subsequent rally was held Thursday to commemorate the incident. Black Panther leader John Huggins speaks in front of Kerckhoff Hall. He was one of two UCLA students who were shot and killed in Campbell Hall on Jan. 17, 1969. By Rogelio Morales DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR rmorales@media.ucla.edu Standing near the main eastern...

<p>December 21, 2003 -- A U.S. Attorney is endangering the nation's only jury conviction of terrorists since 9/11. Tuesday, three men convicted in the first post-9/11 terror trial were supposed to be sentenced. Instead, these members of Detroit's "sleeper cell" may go free. Their defense attorneys are getting help from an unlikely source - U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Collins, the Justice Department's top official in Detroit, who is leading the way to overturn these convictions.</p>

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OK. Just when you think you've heard it all, along come the left-wingers with an even MORE outrageous stunt. Get this... On March 3, 2003, a certain Laura Whitehorn is scheduled to speak for the African and African-American studies program at Duke University in North Carolina. Here's how the university is billing Ms. Whitehorn on their website: "Laura Whitehorn is a revolutionary anti-imperialist who spent over 14 years in federal prison as a political prisoner. An out lesbian, she initiated and worked in HIV peer education and support projects in each of the three federal prisons in which she did...

As the United States prepares itself for the post 9-11 world, it must fight the threats of domestic terrorism as well as terrorism abroad. Osama bin Laden’s network, Al Qaeda, tops most people’s lists of the most serious threats to our security, and for good reason, but there are also many homegrown terrorist groups at work in this country. As the war on terror continues, we must destroy all terrorist groups that seek to cause loss of life, liberty and property. We cannot take any threat lightly, and we must neutralize those groups that want to bring our great nation...

ATHENS, GA.-Musa Smith didn't tell anyone about his father's misdeeds when he got to Georgia. Not his coaches. Not his teammates. "It was in the past," said Smith, a junior running back. "I dealt with it in the past." Even after the events of Sept. 11, Smith managed to keep anyone in Athens from finding out that his father's Pennsylvania farm was once dubbed "Camp Terror," a place where Islamic radicals were allegedly trained to wreak havoc on America. "He's so quiet," coach Mark Richt said. "I had no idea."

ATHENS, GA.-Musa Smith didn't tell anyone about his father's misdeeds when he got to Georgia. Not his coaches. Not his teammates. "It was in the past," said Smith, a junior running back. "I dealt with it in the past." Even after the events of Sept. 11, Smith managed to keep anyone in Athens from finding out that his father's Pennsylvania farm was once dubbed "Camp Terror," a place where Islamic radicals were allegedly trained to wreak havoc on America. "He's so quiet," coach Mark Richt said. "I had no idea." Complete article.