Posted on 06/28/2007 11:16:37 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
The FBI and the Los Angeles Fire Department are investigating an anonymous claim that animal rights extremists placed an unexploded incendiary device found under the car of a prominent UCLA eye doctor last weekend. The incident was similar to one last year in which another UCLA researcher was the intended target.
A gasoline-filled device was discovered Sunday by the car outside the Westside home of Dr. Arthur Rosenbaum, who is chief of pediatric ophthalmology at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute. The device did not ignite despite evidence of an attempt to light it, authorities said Thursday.
An e-mail on Wednesday signed by the Animal Liberation Brigade said the group put the device there to stop experiments on animals in Rosenbaum's laboratory. The message claimed a gallon of fuel was set alight under the vehicle, but authorities said there was no fire.
Rosenbaum, who has worked at UCLA for 35 years, declined to comment Thursday.
According to the National Institutes of Health, his lab received federal funding to, among other things, test tiny implanted electrodes on monkeys to correct severe cross-eyed conditions. UCLA reported that Rosenbaum's team has used only one primate for "vision training" and that the lab meets all federal rules for humane treatment.
FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said investigators are treating the car incident as a case of "domestic terrorism."
The FBI and arson investigators in the Los Angeles Fire Department also will look for possible links to an attempted and still unsolved firebombing a year ago in which an explosive was lighted but did not ignite outside the Bel-Air house of an elderly woman.
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