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  • Man arrested for vandalizing 500 pine trees in northern Minn.

    12/07/2009 2:12:30 PM PST · by Berlin_Freeper · 39 replies · 1,107+ views
    kare11.com ^ | Dec 7, 2009 | KARE 11 Staff Writer
    According to a criminal complaint, 41-year -old Stephen Louis Olson of Backus was angry the county planned to log the trees. Cass County officials say the stand is thinned every ten to 15 years. About 100 of the 600 trees were slated to be cut down and sold this month. The money would have benefitted the community and school district. - Authorities say the entire forest must be cut down due to safety concerns. Mike Diekmann of the Cass County Sheriff's Office says that if a saw hit one of the nails, "it would explode like a gun going off"...
  • 'Elf' jailed over dynamite hoax on mall Santa

    12/04/2009 8:09:55 AM PST · by WOBBLY BOB · 5 replies · 122+ views
    pmsNBC ^ | 12-4-09 | ap
    MORROW, Ga. - A man dressed as an elf was jailed after he told a mall Santa that he was carrying dynamite, police said. Southlake Mall in suburban Atlanta was evacuated but no explosives were found. Police in Morrow, Ga., arrested 45-year-old William Caldwell, who was being held without bond Thursday in the Clayton County jail. He was not part of the mall's Christmas staff.
  • China Jails Environmentalist Wanted in U.S. (ELF ecoterrorist)

    11/28/2009 11:19:59 AM PST · by Stultis · 70 replies · 2,563+ views
    The New York Times ^ | November 27, 2009 | Dan Levin
    DALI, China — Justin Franchi Solondz, an environmental activist from New Jersey who spent years evading charges of ecoterrorism in the United States by hiding out in China, was sentenced to three years in prison by a local court on Friday on charges of manufacturing drugs in this backpacker haven. After serving his time, Mr. Solondz, 30, who is on the F.B.I.’s wanted list, will be deported to the United States, where he faces charges stemming from what the authorities say was his role in an arson rampage that destroyed buildings in three western states as a member of a...
  • China Jails Environmentalist Wanted in U.S. (ELF Family member)

    11/27/2009 6:54:02 PM PST · by jazusamo · 25 replies · 751+ views
    NY Times ^ | November 27, 2009 | Dan Levin
    DALI, China — Justin Franchi Solondz, an environmental activist from New Jersey who spent four years evading charges of ecoterrorism in the United States by hiding out in this backpacker haven, was convicted by a Chinese court on Friday of manufacturing drugs. After serving a three-year sentence, Mr. Solondz, 30, who is on the F.B.I.’s most wanted list, will be deported to the United States, where he faces charges stemming from what the authorities say was his role in an arson rampage that destroyed buildings in three western states as a member of a group related to the environmental extremist...
  • Earth First! co-founder reflects on technology, protests, environmental battles ahead in new book

    10/28/2009 11:25:39 AM PDT · by george76 · 9 replies · 370+ views
    Missoulian ^ | October 27, 2009 | ROB CHANEY
    Earth First! made headlines with its tree-spiking in the 1980s, but the guy who helped make the anti-logging tactic famous didn't invent it. Mike Roselle even titled one chapter of his new book "Why I Quit Spiking Trees." In it, the co-founder of Earth First!, the Rainforest Action Network and the Ruckus Society described how the practice brought old-growth timber cutting to national awareness, but became a public relations disaster for the protesters. "I think the Wobblies can take credit for it if they want, but it's been around as long as logging," Roselle said, referring to the Industrial Workers...
  • Former Earth Liberation Front spokesman starts up 'radical' environmental magazine

    10/19/2009 2:59:56 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 26 replies · 474+ views
    The Oregonian ^ | October 19, 2009 | Scott Learn
    Craig Rosebraugh, a longtime activist, former Earth Liberation Front spokesman and former Portland restaurateur, has started up a new quarterly magazine: "Resistance, Journal of the Earth Liberation Movement."View full sizeDoug Beghtel/The Oregonian Craig Rosebraugh in 2000.The Arizona-based magazine isn't striving for mainstream balance; it describes itself as "radical" and names Shell oil company as its "Ecoterrorist of the Season." Today's release is the second edition, but Rosebraugh is describing it as a "national launch," saying the magazine is now available at Borders and hundreds of other stores in the United States and Canada after signing on with Disticor Distribution. Rosebraugh...
  • Former honor student turns eco-terrorist

    10/05/2009 11:10:46 AM PDT · by markomalley · 17 replies · 1,100+ views
    Eau Claire Leader Telegram ^ | 10/4/2009 | Eric Lindquist
    In 1999, Ian Wallace was elected king of Memorial High School's Winter Carnival and was named co-captain of the varsity hockey team. In 2003, he was named to the dean's list for his academic achievement as an anthropology student at the University of Minnesota. In between, he admitted to federal officials last year, Wallace attempted to firebomb two buildings at Michigan Technological University in an act of eco-terrorism. As a result, the former Memorial honor student and student council member is locked up in federal prison and not scheduled for release until Jan. 12, 2012. Ian J. Wallace, now 28,...
  • Environmental activist arrested [TX] in attempted arson in Pasadena [CA]

    10/02/2009 3:23:04 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 6 replies · 335+ views
    LA Times ^ | October 2, 2009 | Andrew Blankstein
    Stephen James Murphy was detained in Texas by the FBI in connection with an incident in 2006 at a construction site for townhouses.The FBI has arrested an environmental activist in connection with the attempted arson of unfinished town homes in Pasadena in 2006, authorities said Thursday. Stephen James Murphy, 43, was arrested without incident Wednesday at his home in Arlington, Texas, after being named in a criminal complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court, said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller. According to the complaint, the Pasadena Fire Department responded to a construction site on Sept. 19, 2006, and found what...
  • Mexico: Emergence of an Unexpected Threat

    09/30/2009 10:21:32 PM PDT · by Kartographer · 11 replies · 761+ views
    rightsidenews.com ^ | 9/30/09 | Scott Stewart
    At approximately 2 a.m. on Sept. 25, a small improvised explosive device (IED) consisting of three or four butane canisters was used to attack a Banamex bank branch in the Milpa Alta delegation of Mexico City. The device damaged an ATM and shattered the bank's front windows. It was not an isolated event. The bombing was the seventh recorded IED attack in the Federal District - and the fifth such attack against a local bank branch - since the beginning of September. The attack was claimed in a communique posted to a Spanish-language anarchist Web site by a group calling...
  • A threat of further vandalism against KRKO, Everett, WA (enviro terrorism)

    09/28/2009 3:47:40 AM PDT · by raccoonradio · 6 replies · 490+ views
    radio-info.com ^ | 09/28/09 | raccoonradio
    The Herald newspaper says the graffiti sprayed on buildings associated with the Skotdal family is visible from Highway 522. The message appears to be a followup to last month’s sabotage at the KRKO (1380) transmitter site that toppled a whole tower. It says, in part: “MBA KRKO/Snotdol [sic] Empire. If you continue to risk killing children, mother earth and her creations, all your holdings are targets.“ This extra-long graffiti message ends this way: "Authentic ELF [Earth Liberation Front]? Ask ATF/FBI about restricted water mains. Little water, better burn. ELF.” KRKO recently turned on its new 50-kw daytime facility, a move...
  • Big-car dealer vandalized, FBI stepping in (OR)

    09/14/2009 5:51:28 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 47 replies · 1,620+ views
    KATU News ^ | September 14, 2009 | Jeff Jaeger
    PORTLAND, Ore. - Vandals in Portland targeted some pretty pricey cars over night, throwing acid or paint stripper all over them. No one has claimed responsibility, and there's no telling just how many people were involved. The damage to as many as 15 cars is expensive. Here's one, a Hummer from the besieged Vic Alfonso Cadillac Dealership in Northeast Portland. You can see a number of spots where the paint is now peeling off the car. A sociology professor at Portland State University said there are plenty of reasons that could have motivated the vandals to do all of...
  • Do ELF terrorists read political books?

    09/06/2009 5:50:46 AM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 10 replies · 496+ views
    When I heard about the ELF group's latest acts of terrorism immediately the first question that popped into my head was "well what kinds of books do they read?"...... little did I know how brilliant that really was. For those around me who may have forgotten, Jim David Adkisson who shot up the Tennessee Unitarian Church also read books from O'Reilly and a few others, and when the drive by media found out this fact they proceeded to morph the discussion of despicable acts into one of their usual political rallies against their enemies in talk radio. The shooting itself...
  • Activists Topple Towers, Claim Dangers of AM Radio Waves (The Earth Liberation Front)

    09/06/2009 4:58:06 AM PDT · by Dallas59 · 50 replies · 1,925+ views
    CNN ^ | 9/4/2009 | CNN
    A group cited by U.S. officials as a domestic terrorism threat claimed responsibility Friday for knocking down two radio station towers in Snohomish County, Washington. Much of the tower system, owned by radio station KRKO, was "flattened like a pancake," the manager said. Much of the tower system, owned by radio station KRKO, was "flattened like a pancake," the manager said. The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) issued a statement saying opponents of the towers argue that "AM radio waves cause adverse health effects including a higher rate of cancer, harm to wildlife, and that the signals have been interfering with...
  • Radio Station Towers Toppled in Washington, Radical Environmental Group Eyed (ELF)

    09/04/2009 10:47:53 AM PDT · by Joiseydude · 36 replies · 1,508+ views
    FoxNews ^ | Friday, September 04, 2009
    EVERETT, Wash. — Two radio station towers toppled after someone used a piece of heavy equipment to knock them down. Everett radio station KRKO's General Manager Andy Skotdal says a sign left at the scene Friday says ELF, likely a reference to the Earth Liberation Front.
  • 2 radio towers in Washington state toppled

    09/04/2009 12:32:24 PM PDT · by Beloved Levinite · 72 replies · 3,312+ views
    Radical Ecoterrorist Group Topples Two Radio Towers Near Seattle EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - Two radio station towers were toppled early Friday, and the station's manager said an ecoterrorist group's initials were left at the scene. A sign bearing the letters ELF was found near the towers, said Andy Skotdal, general manager of KRKO Radio in Everett, about 25 miles north of Seattle. The Earth Liberation Front is a loose collection of radical environmentalists that has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks since the 1990s. However, Snohomish County sheriff's office spokeswoman Rebecca Hover wouldn't confirm that a sign was found. A...
  • Protesters Descend on Home Depot (Earth First)

    07/10/2009 11:17:35 AM PDT · by missycocopuffs · 14 replies · 675+ views
    KPIC News ^ | July 10, 2009 | Megan Sweeney
    By Megan Sweeney KPIC News Video ROSEBURG, Ore. -- In what is believed to be connected to the logging protest near Reedsport, patrol officers and detectives responded to the Home Depot in Roseburg after 40-50 protesters entered the business. According to police, the group used the store's public address system, moved displays around and put up a banner that said "Dam the Home Depot, Save Chile's Rivers." Several subjects were taken away from the property but no arrests were made. Police believe this protest is connected with the logging protest near Reedsport. Members of the groups Earth First! and Cascadia...
  • Is The White House Providing Support Through Serve.Gov To Real Home Grown Terrorists?

    06/23/2009 11:05:07 AM PDT · by LoosingTheRepublic · 3 replies · 724+ views
    FIRST PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L_p14_Nu8Q http://serve.gov/ In "What Interests You?" I typed Defense In "Where WOuld You Like To Volunteer?" I Typed New York This brought me to these results http://www.allforgood.org/search#q=defense&num=10&start=1&vol_loc=new%20york&timeperiod=everything&cache=1 Very first result was for Earth And Animal Liberation Support So I clicked it Which lead me to here http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/VolunteerOpportunity/85193-103/c This is the description Earth and Animal Liberation Support Location: New York, New York, 10013, United States Organization: Wetlands Activism Collective Start date: May 31, 2002 Sex: All are welcome Skill(s): legal Last updated: June 20, 2009 End date: December 31, 2010 Age: Adults (18-64), Seniors (65...
  • Vegan Daniel Andreas San Diego who tried to close British animal lab is put on FBI list

    04/21/2009 7:31:00 PM PDT · by george76 · 22 replies · 716+ views
    The Times ^ | April 22, 2009 | Chris Ayres
    An American vegan who has made it his life’s mission to shut down a British animal-testing company has become the first domestic terrorist to be listed on the FBI’s most-wanted list of terror suspects. The name of Daniel Andreas San Diego, who is accused of carrying out the 2003 bombings of two US companies affiliated with Huntingdon Life Sciences, of Cambridgeshire, is listed alongside the likes of Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Adam Yahiye Gadahn. San Diego, who is shown on the FBI’s most-wanted poster with short brown hair and glasses, is said to have several unusual tattoos that...
  • FBI's Most Wanted lists 1st domestic terror suspect

    04/20/2009 8:13:52 PM PDT · by Sergeant Tim · 38 replies · 1,986+ views
    Washington Times ^ | April 21, 2009 | Ben Conery and Audrey Hudson
    The FBI on Tuesday will for the first time add the name of a domestic-terrorism suspect to its list of Most Wanted Terrorists, a post-Sept. 11 creation that until now has included only suspected Islamist terrorists, a law enforcement official told The Washington Times. Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 31-year-old animal rights activist, is wanted in connection with the 2003 bombings of two companies in the San Francisco Bay Area linked to an animal-testing laboratory. San Diego will take his place on a list that has included notorious international terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri and Adam Gadahn,...
  • SENTENCING IN 2001 ECO-TERRORISM ATTEMPT AT MICHIGAN

    03/30/2009 4:07:37 AM PDT · by Cindy · 3 replies · 483+ views
    Note: The following text is a quote: http://detroit.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/de032709.htm The United States Attorney's Office Western District of Michigan Press Release SENTENCING IN 2001 ECO-TERRORISM ATTEMPT AT MICHIGAN MARQUETTE, MI—Ian Jacob Wallace, 27, of East Setauket, New York, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell to serve three years in Federal prison for his role in the November 5, 2001, attempted fire-bombing of U.S. Forest Service property located on the campus of Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, U.S. Attorney Donald A. Davis announced today. Wallace, who committed the offense on behalf of the activist environmental group known...
  • Environmental Extremists Sentenced for University Arson

    03/23/2009 7:32:32 PM PDT · by george76 · 13 replies · 569+ views
    adl ^ | February 17, 2009
    Two environmental extremists have been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $4.1 million in restitution for their role in a Michigan State University (MSU) arson that caused more than $1 million in damage. Marie Mason, of Cincinnati, and Frank Ambrose, of Detroit, were sentenced in February 2009 and October 2008, respectively, on charges relating to an explosion and fire at MSU's Agriculture Hall on New Year's Eve 1999. The arson was the most serious incident in a series of criminal acts the couple carried out on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), the most...
  • Feds say NY man helped solve Wis. eco-terrorism

    03/23/2009 7:06:44 PM PDT · by george76 · 43 replies · 1,031+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Mar 21, 2009 | ED WHITE
    Ian Wallace is a graduate student in anthropology in New York who has studied fossils in Kenya, combed excavations in Syria and France and written about his research in scholarly journals. But next week, he will be sentenced to federal prison for trying to blow up two buildings at a Michigan university in 2001 when he was a radical eco-saboteur. It is another case of federal agents catching up to people who formerly were passionate members of the Earth Liberation Front, known as ELF. "Ian Wallace's past has come back to harm him," The FBI contacted him in January 2007...
  • Elf Detection 101-How to find the hidden folk of Iceland

    03/11/2009 6:24:04 PM PDT · by BGHater · 57 replies · 1,098+ views
    Slate ^ | 11 Mar 2009 | Juliet Lapidos
    An article on Iceland's de facto bankruptcy in the April issue of Vanity Fair notes that a "large number of Icelanders" believe in elves or "hidden people." This widespread folklore occasionally disrupts business in the sparsely populated North Atlantic country. Before the aluminum company Alcoa could erect a smelting factory, "it had to defer to a government expert to scour the enclosed plant site and certify that no elves were on or under it." How do you find an elf? With psychic powers. According to a poll conducted in 2007, 54 percent of Icelanders don't deny the existence of elves...
  • Fringe group of enviros vandalizing homes, cars (Tucson, AZ)

    03/01/2009 11:26:54 AM PST · by jazusamo · 30 replies · 1,279+ views
    Arizona Daily Star ^ | March 1, 2009 | Tom Beal
    Vandals who claim to act in the name of animal rights and the environment are expanding their targets from laboratories and constructon sites that offend them to homes and cars of those with whom they disagree. On Feb. 19 in Tucson, a UA researcher had her water valve cemented shut and a mining company employee had her car tires flattened and her windows etched with hateful sayings. A press release posted on the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center site by a group calling itself "Tucson H.A.A.N.D." or "Hooligans Attack at Night, Duh," claimed responsibility for the acts. It...
  • Woman Gets 22 Years For '99 Mich. Campus Arson

    02/08/2009 11:14:33 AM PST · by lowbridge · 27 replies · 797+ views
    AP/CBS ^ | Feb. 5, 2009
    A radical activist who helped set a $1 million fire to protest research on genetically modified crops was sentenced Thursday to nearly 22 years in prison _ even more than the prosecution recommended. Marie Mason decided to "elevate her grievances beyond the norms of civilized society" through fire and destruction, U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney said. The case _ which was prosecuted as domestic terrorism _ was "about an abandonment of the marketplace of ideas," he added. -snip At MSU, Mason and Ambrose targeted a campus office that held records on research related to moth-resistant potatoes for poor parts of...
  • 1999 MSU Arsonist Sentenced Today

    02/05/2009 6:57:58 PM PST · by magslinger · 35 replies · 993+ views
    WQTX ^ | 2/5/2009
    The government says a 20-year prison sentence for a woman who committed arson at Michigan State University would be the toughest punishment ever in a case of so-called eco-terrorism. Marie Mason is due in federal court at 9 a.m. today. The explosion and fire at Michigan State's Agriculture Hall in 1999 was a protest against genetically modified crops. Damage exceeded $1 million. Prosecutors want a 20-year prison sentence for the 47-year-old Cincinnati woman. Mason's lawyer says that would be extreme. Mason has admitted other acts from 1999 through 2003, including fires at homes under construction in southeastern Michigan and Indiana....
  • Expanding the French Connection

    11/04/2005 11:36:55 AM PST · by paperjam · 22 replies · 3,058+ views
    Self ^ | Friday, November 04, 2005 | Paperjam
    <p>Fox news ran stories last night based on some of the things we were tracking right here in this post. Here is their on line story.</p> <p>As unfinished as my research is, I feel compelled to release what I've found so far as the story cannot wait any longer.  I am not looking for a scoop on anyone or anything, but at the same time I don't want anyone thinking I made this stuff up after the fact either.</p>
  • Volcker Tapped for Advisory Role

    11/26/2008 8:06:53 AM PST · by MissCalico · 80 replies · 3,858+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | Jonathan Weisman
    x-Fed Chief to Lead New Economic Panel of Outside Experts Who Will Brief Obama President-elect Barack Obama appointed former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker on Wednesday to be the chairman of a new White House advisory board tasked with helping to lift the nation from recession and stabilize financial markets. University of Chicago economist Austan Goolsbee, one of Mr. Obama's longest-serving policy advisers, will serve as the board's staff director, along with his duties as a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Members of the panel will be drawn from a cross-section of citizens outside the government,...
  • OPERATION BACKFIRE Help Find Four Eco-Terrorists

    11/19/2008 4:41:41 PM PST · by Cindy · 13 replies · 761+ views
    FBI.GOV ^ | November 19, 2008 | FBI.GOV
    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...
  • Police warn of growing threat from eco-terrorists

    11/19/2008 12:55:59 PM PST · by george76 · 20 replies · 715+ views
    The Observer ^ | November 9 2008 | Mark Townsend and Nick Denning
    Fear of deadly attack by lone maverick as officers alert major firms to danger of green extremism. Police have warned of the growing threat of eco-terrorism after revealing they are investigating a group which has supporters who believe that reducing the Earth's population by four-fifths will help to protect the planet. Officers from a specialist unit dedicated to tackling domestic terrorism are monitoring an eco-movement called Earth First! which has advocates who state that cutting the Earth's population by 80 per cent will ease pressure on other species. Officers are concerned a 'lone maverick' eco-extremist may attempt a terrorist attack...
  • FBI increases reward for suspected eco-terrorists

    11/19/2008 12:38:36 PM PST · by george76 · 21 replies · 588+ views
    CNN ^ | November 19, 2008 | Terry Frieden
    The FBI on Wednesday quintupled rewards for four suspects in the $26 million arson of a Colorado ski resort 10 years ago. The four suspects, who are thought to be the last members of the eco-terror group known as "The Family," are believed to have fled overseas. "The Family" was thought to be affiliated with ELF, the Earth Liberation Front. Together, the four are suspected in "at least 25 domestic terrorism criminal actions totaling over $48 million in damages, including the largest eco-related arson in history, a $26 million arson at the Vail Ski Resort," ... "These individuals are terrorists;...
  • Obama's Mansion, Saddam's Money..............(connection to Obama, who personally benefited )

    10/29/2008 3:36:08 AM PDT · by IrishMike · 19 replies · 1,595+ views
    FrontPageMagazine ^ | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | Daniel Pipes
    Barack Obama appears to have personally benefited from funds originating in Saddam Hussein's regime. It's a complicated connection, but one that deserves the consideration of Americans voters. Two similar figures, Nadhmi Auchi and Antoin S. "Tony" Rezko, served as the intermediaries. Both are Middle Eastern males of Catholic Christian heritage who left Baathist dictatorships for Western cities (Auchi from Iraq to London, Rezko from Syria to Chicago). Both became successful businessmen who hobnobbed with politicians and promoted Arab interests. Both have been convicted of taking kickbacks and both stand accused of other shady dealings. Auchi, born in 1937, is the...
  • Nadhmi Auchi and the New Statesman

    10/13/2008 2:05:07 PM PDT · by Danae · 15 replies · 921+ views
    The New Statesman ^ | 10-6-2008 | Martin Bright
    The brilliant people at Wikileaks have produced a very useful collection of articles about stories removed from media websites following legal threats from an Iraqi billionaire The British-based Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi has become a highly controversial figure in the United States after being linked to Chicago-based businessman Tony Rezko - the weak link in the Obama campaign. The freedom of information site Wikileaks has now published some fascinating material about Auchi's attempts to stop people writing about him. Auchi was convicted of fraud by the French courts in 2003 for his involvement in illegal payments surrounding a deal he...
  • From Bagdad to Chicago: Rezko and the Auchi empire (by former senior State, DOD official)

    10/11/2008 10:47:39 AM PDT · by STARWISE · 19 replies · 2,301+ views
    Wikileaks ^ | 10-10-08 | John A. Shaw
    “I first began to fathom the extent of Nadhmi Auchi's reach and corrupting influence when I was given responsibility for monitoring illegal transfers of technology and munitions to Iraq as well as overseeing all coalition transportation and communications reconstruction in Iraq." ### Barack Obama has been appropriately strident in his condemnation of the mortgage-based financial corruption which nearly led to the collapse of the investment banking system in the United States. But there are some strong smelling financial skeletons in his own closet. Obama has his own personal housing crisis that is tied not into Fanny Mae, but into a...
  • Dumpster dive helps solve eco-terrorism

    10/23/2008 2:11:33 AM PDT · by markomalley · 7 replies · 759+ views
    Capitol Press ^ | 10/23/2008 | Ed White
    REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A business owner checking a Dumpster for scrap cardboard was alarmed by something else: gas masks, maps, an M-80 explosive, arson photos and anti-government writings. "It was kinda scary," Andy Wishaw recalled. "Some of my employees said it's nothing. I thought, 'What's it going to hurt to call the police?'" The discovery turned out to be a big break for the FBI. Agents on the trail of eco-terrorism used the contents to help solve more than a dozen acts of arson and tree spikings in Michigan and Indiana committed in the name of a radical...
  • Threat Matrix: October 2008

    10/06/2008 7:27:37 PM PDT · by nwctwx · 756 replies · 14,061+ views
    FBI Warns of Potential Terror Attacks The FBI and Department of Homeland Security today issued an analytical "note" to U.S. law-enforcement officials cautioning that al-Qaida terrorists have in the past expressed interest in attacking public buildings using a dozen suicide bombers each carrying 20 kilograms of explosives. Authors with the U.S. Office of Intelligence and Analysis added that they have "no credible or specific information that terrorists are planning operations against public buildings in the United States." The FBI and DHS analysts said they were releasing the note because "it is important for local authorities and building owners and...
  • A Hunt In Garbage Helps Solve Eco-Terror Spree

    10/07/2008 5:02:48 PM PDT · by Lurker · 15 replies · 1,183+ views
    Homeland Security Newsletter ^ | 25 September 08 | Ed White
    <p>REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A business owner checking a trash container for scrap cardboard was alarmed by something else: gas masks, maps, an M-80 explosive, arson photos and anti-government writings.</p> <p>"It was kinda scary," Andy Wishaw recalled. "Some of my employees said it's nothing. I thought, 'What's it going to hurt to call the police?'"</p>
  • History Dept. Chair: Palin Somehow Connected to Pacific Northwest Hate Groups

    09/16/2008 7:04:51 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 93 replies · 700+ views
    NewsBusters ^ | September 16, 2008 | P.J. Gladnick
    The chair of the Connecticut College history department, Catherine McNicol Stock, has suggested that Sarah Palin is somehow associated with Pacific Northwest hate groups such as Posse Comitatus and the Aryan Nations. Her proof? Well, because Palin lived in areas with low "diversity." I kid you not. Here is the professor's "learned thesis" presented in a Philadelphia Inquirer opinion column melodramatically titled, "Intolerance thrives in Palin's Pacific Northwest" (emphasis mine): Despite her efforts to portray herself as an average, small-town, "folksy" American, Sarah Palin's political views - ardently pro-gun, pro-censorship, antichoice and antigay - make John McCain's conservative credentials pale...
  • Radical Environmentalists Eyed After Discovery Of Bombs On Michigan Campus...

    11/06/2001 9:57:42 AM PST · by callisto · 68 replies · 1,207+ views
    DrudgeReport ^ | 11.06.01 | PAUL PETERSON - Detroit Free Press
    <p>HOUGHTON -- Federal and state law enforcement officials remained on the Michigan Tech University campus late Monday after bombs found at two university buildings were disarmed. Radical environmentalists are considered possible suspects, a county official said.</p> <p>The bombs, described by university spokesmen as the "real thing," were discovered early Monday morning by campus public safety officers at the U.J. Noblet Forestry Building and the U.S. Forest Service Engineering Laboratory.</p>
  • The EcoTerrorist Anthrax Connection

    10/23/2001 4:49:01 AM PDT · by Stand Watch Listen · 56 replies · 1,216+ views
    CNSNews.com ^ | October 23, 2001 | Tom DeWeese
    While the remains of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and Washington, DC's Pentagon are "ground zero" for the horrible destruction wrought by foreign terrorists, the nation's forests, research labs, resorts and housing developments have long been "ground zero" for domestic environmentally-driven "ecoterrorists." There may be diabolical links between the two forces. There is a strong possibility that Animal Liberation Front (ALF) terrorists have come into possession of Anthrax as the result of having invaded laboratories that have been researching the disease. This certainly merits investigation as a source for the Anthrax attacks. The fact ...
  • Another UW arsonist sentenced to federal prison

    08/19/2008 10:56:56 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 23 replies · 140+ views
    Seattle PI ^ | August 19, 2008 | Paul Shukovsky
    A Spokane woman was sentenced Tuesday to three years in federal prison in the May 2001 firebombing of the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture. Lacey Phillabaum, 33, of Spokane, is one of five people -- members of a domestic terrorist group called the Earth Liberation Front -- who were accused by federal prosecutors of the arson attack that destroyed the building along with precious samples of rare and endangered plants species being cultivated for reintroduction into the Cascades. The ELF cell, dubbed "The Family," acted on the erroneous belief that a scientist at the center was doing the...
  • MOST WANTED: Josephine Sunshine Overaker on Eco-Terrorism Charges

    08/13/2008 7:38:32 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 29 replies · 475+ views
    MOST WANTED: Josephine Sunshine Overaker on Eco-Terrorism Charges Aug. 13, 2008 Under the cover of darkness on an October evening in 1996, Josephine Sunshine Overaker began her life as an eco-terrorist, officials said. The long-haired, vegan activist, sporting a slight moustache, worked at times as a midwife, sheep tender and firefighter, but this night she ignited her own dangerous blaze, officials said. Along with several other environmental extremists, Overaker slipped into the Willamette National Forest and struck the U.S. Forest Service's station in Detroit, Ore., officials said. Clad in black, they allegedly left graffiti and burned several Forest Service vehicles...
  • Firebomb attacks anger, worry UC scientists who use animals in research

    08/10/2008 10:17:46 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 13 replies · 160+ views
    LA Times ^ | August 10, 2008 | Richard C. Paddock
    Despite fears, most academics say they will not be intimidated by violent tactics.Two firebomb attacks last week on UC Santa Cruz scientists who conduct animal research have angered and worried academics throughout the UC system, who said their work has broad public support and that they will not be intimidated by bombers who crossed the line by targeting families. "It is outrageous when people's families are targeted," said UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. "This is incredibly serious because it could have led to loss of life. It's chilling." But Block, a biologist who uses mice in his research on circadian rhythms,...
  • Threat Matrix: August 2008

    08/01/2008 12:17:04 PM PDT · by nwctwx · 1,066 replies · 5,195+ views
    Pentagon Makes Fighting Extremism Top Priority Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named "the long war" against global extremism as its top priority and pledged to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia through dialogue. The Defense Department, in a new national defense strategy, also emphasized the need to subordinate military operations to "soft power" initiatives to undermine Islamist militancy by promoting economic, political and social development in vulnerable corners of the world. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the change would help establish permanent institutional support for counterinsurgency skills...
  • Homespun Terrorists

    08/06/2008 6:23:15 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 5 replies · 129+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | August 6, 2008
    Terrorism: The time comes in every fringe group's existence when it must decide to stay legitimate and obey the law or leap into violence and terrorism. The animal rights movement seems to have chosen the latter.Make no mistake: The terrorism committed by the animal rights movement and some extreme environmental groups is real. Like all terrorists, they use force, threats and destruction of property to intimidate people into submission. Having lost the debate in the marketplace of ideas, they choose instead to terrorize. As Jerry Vlasak, a spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front, told the AP, "If you had to...
  • The war on scientists in America

    08/05/2008 7:48:28 AM PDT · by SmithL · 42 replies · 97+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/5/8 | Debra J. Saunders
    Imagine if a group of rabid creationists started fire-bombing the homes of University of California professors to prevent them from teaching evolution. Area politicians would be holding competing press conferences to assure the public that they would take on the violent zealots, who have declared war, not only on good academics and their families, but on science itself. No need to imagine. Across California, a different group of zealots has done just that. True believers have distributed personal information on scientists and their families. They've placed firebombs in medical researchers' homes and cars. They've donned hoods on their heads and...
  • Santa Cruz firebombs look familiar

    08/04/2008 7:47:46 AM PDT · by SmithL · 8 replies · 175+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/4/8 | Wyatt Buchananand Demian Bulwa
    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...
  • Firebombs target UC researchers

    08/03/2008 8:18:41 AM PDT · by SmithL · 22 replies · 293+ views
    MediaNews via CoCoTimes ^ | 8/3/8 | Conan Knoll and Genevieve Bookwalter
    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...
  • Seattle woman gets 5 years for UW arson

    07/18/2008 3:22:41 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 17 replies · 368+ views
    KOMONews.com ^ | July 18, 2008 | KOMO Staff
    TACOMA - A key participant in the 2001 arson that destroyed the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture was sentenced Friday to five years in federal prison. Jennifer L. Kolar, 33, of Seattle also was ordered to pay more than $7.1 million in restitution in connection with the fire, which also destroyed priceless research projects and endangered plants. The sentencing, by U.S. District Judge Franklin D. Burgess, came after Kolar pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson, two counts of arson, one count of attempted arson and using a destructive device during a crime of violence. Kolar was part...
  • The Geekiest Arsonist (Eco-terrorism)

    07/16/2008 5:50:44 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 49 replies · 160+ views
    Crosscut.com ^ | July 16, 2008 | Kim McDonald
    Software engineer Jennifer Kolar is to be sentenced this week in federal court for her role in Earth Liberation Front arsons, including one at the University of Washington. Her time in prison will be reduced because she turned state's witness, but that doesn't mitigate the fact she is now regarded as a snitch by peers and could be labeled a terrorist by the government.By Kim McDonald "Don't hang up," FBI Special Agent Jane Quimby told Jennifer Kolar on Dec. 10, 2006. "There were arrests and there is a target letter for you." She gave Kolar the name and number...