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Posted on 12/20/2005 7:05:57 AM PST by Redbob
A suspect in a 1998 Vail Mountain firebombing was indicted yesterday in connection with two Oregon fires as part of a federal sweep aimed at resolving a wave of long-unsolved ecoterrorist attacks.
U.S. Attorney Kirk Engdahl told U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Coffin that she was a suspect in the Vail arson, a $12 million rampage that destroyed buildings and ski-lift sites at the resort.
The indictments came a week after a five-state sweep in which federal authorities arrested six suspects for a string of ecoterrorist attacks between 1998 and 2001 in Colorado and the Pacific Northwest.
...(ELF) and Animal Liberation Front, two loosely organized ecoterrorist groups, took responsibility for most of the half-dozen attacks. ... ELF released an e-mail blaming the arson on the resort's plans to expand into what it described as lynx habitat, although the small bobcat hadn't been spotted near Vail in 30 years.
The Vail Mountain fire still ranks as the most expensive single act of ecoterrorism in U.S. history. Prosecutors have not charged anyone in the Vail arson -- Miss Gerlach is the first suspect publicly identified -- but Mr. Engdahl's remarks raised hopes that the crime might soon be solved.
"We're cautiously optimistic that maybe there will be a prosecution in this case," Eagle County Undersheriff Jeff Layman said.
Mr. Engdahl told the court that Miss Gerlach is also a suspect in the 2001 firebombing of a University of Washington horticultural research center in Seattle; ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
The HOGS gave her a workout based on her looks, but she never made the team.
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Hang 'em High ~ Bump!
I'm sure that she will insist that they be recycled paper bags.
Glad to see ELF is being caught up with.
Long time a comin'
Yes Blackie Hang 'em High.
Hang them hi or medium just so their toes don't touch the ground!
30 years of so in Leavenworth should go a long way in slowing these disgusting domestic terrorists down.
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~~ and leave 'em hanging until their head separates from their body.
Let their heads or bodies drop to the street. Then the coyotes and feral dogs and cats can feast on the leftovers.
Sounds like a plan!!
Merry Christmas, my friend!
she may set fires, but she aint hot...
To you!
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