Posted on 02/22/2006 8:41:56 AM PST by Rakkasan1
former Chaska man who was an animal rights activist at Macalester College in St. Paul has been described by the Times of London newspaper as the "mastermind" behind a campaign to incite violent attacks on officials at England's Oxford University. Nicolas Atwood, who now lives in West Palm Beach, Fla., said the story about him published in the Sunday Times is "pretty ridiculous." But Atwood acknowledged that the Web site he helps maintain has been posting "communiqués" from the radical Animal Liberation Front, which opposes Oxford's plan to build an animal research laboratory. The Times reported that the site's postings last week included the names and home addresses of 40 Oxford faculty and staff members. The site described them as "legitimate targets." The university obtained a court order barring ALF from spreading home addresses and other details by e-mail, but the Times reported that British authorities have no control over Atwood's Web site, which is officially administered in Malaysia. Atwood said it's true that the site, www.directaction.info, is essentially an international message forum filled with postings that make threats against specific targets and brag about successful arsons, burglaries and vandalisms. The postings date to 2002.
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