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Please add anything I have missed.

when I look athis and lsten to lefties say we are wrong in our fight against terrorisim... I am dumbfounded!

Check out this link to an August 1999 Deborah Orin article on the FALN and Clinton's clemency for several of these terrorists. They were responsible for, among other things, the 1975 bombing at Fraunces Tavern in New York City.

FALN CREW NO INNOCENTS: REPORT

WACO- US Gov terrorizes and kills own civilians.

OKC- US citizens blow up government office building.

Oh, but you were speaking of foreign terrorism. Hell, the domestic stuff goes back to the civil war & reconstruction; KKK, John Brown, Dark Lantern Society, ad naseum.

1986 bombing of a West Berlin discotheque that killed two U.S. soldiers and a Turkish woman.

You forgot the Flight that was highjacked by terrorists and crashed in PA. when the passengers fought back. Sept 11,2001

Hostages in Lebanon: CIA station chief William F. Buckley and Colonel Higgins murdered in mid 80s.

The '92 and '96 presidential elections...and a "near miss" in 2000

Also, this link to information about the assassination attempt on President Truman by two Puerto Rican Nationalists in 1950:

Truman Assassination Attempt

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Here is a link for The Journalists Toolbox. It has some interesting links that you could use.

March 1994- A muslim cab driver shot at a bus full of Jewish kids on the Brooklyn Bridge and killed one, Ari Halberstam.

Please add anything I have missed.

The list is already too long.....

On Jan. 25, 1993, during the morning rush hour, a lone gunman pulled out an AK-47 and opened fire on commuters outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., killing two CIA employees and wounding three other people.

A terrorist attack on US soil

This was another Muslim terorist attack that was thwarted by an a fearful collaborator. Nobody remembers it, but I do because I went through that subway station almost every day back then.

DOT PRESENTS AWARDS TO NEW YORK CITY POLICE OFFICERS

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Director of the Office of Intelligence and Security, Rear Admiral James A. Kinghorn, today presented Superior Achievement Awards with Bronze Medals to two New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officers for their heroic efforts in preventing terrorist activity aimed at New York City’s Transit System.

Rear Admiral Kinghorn, who is the National Security Advisor to Transportation Department Secretary Rodney E. Slater, presented the special recognition awards to Officers John Kowalchuk and Eric Huber during the General Session of the American Public Transit Association’s Annual Meeting on Oct. 5, 1998 in New York.

On July 30, 1997, Officers Kowalchuk and Huber were on patrol at the Long Island Railroad Flatbush Avenue Terminal in Brooklyn when a civilian provided them with specific information about the manufacture of explosive devices in a nearby Brooklyn apartment. The devices reportedly were to be used against New York City buses, subways and trains. Upon hearing the information, the police officers immediately notified the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and escorted the informant to a local precinct to continue investigating the incident.

Information, later obtained from the informant during an NYPD Detective’s Division interview, led NYPD bomb squad and emergency services units to an apartment address where four explosive devices were recovered and several suspects arrested. Two of the suspects received gunshot wounds during the raid but none of the police officers were injured.

Here's a brief chronology of terrorist events involving the United States in one way or another (U.S. Citizens, U.S. Soil, U.S. Military Bases, etc. etc.) since 1970.

This is by no means a complete list, and I've left out simple murders (that didn't appear to have any political motivation) of American nationals, etc. In the end, it becomes somewhat subjective as to which perps you define as terrorists, and which ones qualify as just a violent nutcases without political aims.

1971- March 1. Washington DC. The US Senate office building is damaged by a bomb planted by the Waether Underground.

1972- May 11. Germany. The Red Army Faction kills a U.S. Army officer and injures 12 servicemen in a series of coordinated bombings.

1974- April 13. Subic Bay, Phillipines. Members of the New People's Army kill three sailors near the naval base.

1975- January 24. New York. Members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), a Puerto Rican nationalist group explodes a bomb in a bar in New York.

1975- January 28. Washington. The Weather Underground sets off a bomb at the State Department building.

1975- August 4, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 5 members of the Japanese Red Army attack the American Consulate. 4 are wounded, 53, including Consul Robert Stebbins are taken hostage. All are released when the Japanese government bows to the terrorists demands.

1977- March 9. Washington. Hanafi Muslim terrorists seize three buildings, including the D.C. City Council Chambers taking 134 hostages. One man is killed, twelve are wounded. After a two day standoff, the hostages are released.

1977- May 17. Madrid Spain. The October 1 Antifascist Resitance Group bombs the US cultural center in Madrid.

1979- February 14. Kabul, Afghanistan. The US Ambassador to Afghanistan is killed in a botched rescue attempt.

1979- June 20. Chicago. Serb nationalists hijack an American Airlines flight from NY to Chicago.

1979- June 25. Belgium. NATO Commander Alexander Haig escapes a bombing attempt by a matter of feet. The Red Army Faction claims responsibility.

1979- November 4 Tehran, Iran. 52 Americans taken hostage. Held for 444 days. President Carter autorized a failed rescue attempt on April 24, 1980 which resulted in the deaths of 8 soldiers. Canadian embassy officials smuggled six Americans out of Iran under Canadian passports.

1979- December 2. Puerto Rico. Two US Sailors are killed on a bus by Puerto RIcan nationalists.

1980- October 5. Los Angeles. Armenian nationalists bomb the Turkish Consolate in LA, injuring one person.

1981- March 7. Columbia. Kidnappers kill American Chester Allen after holding him hostage for six weeks.

1981- August 31. Ramstein, West Germany. A bomb detonated in the US Air Force base kills two Germans, and injures 18 Americans. The Red Army Faction takes responsibility.

1981- September 15. The Red Army Faction attempts to assassinate General Frederick Kruesen, US commanding general in Germany. the General and his wife suffered minor injuries.

1981- December 17. Verona Italy. Brigader General James Lee Dozier is kidnapped by the Red Brigades. Dozier is freed by Italian commandos after 42 days in captivity.

1982- June 1. West Germany. Coordinated attacks by a terrorist group called Revolutionary Cells take place in four US bases, including US Army Headquarters in Frankfurt.

1982- July 19. Beirut, Lebanon. The President of American University, David Dodge is kidnapped. He is held for a year.

1983- April 18, Beirut, Lebanon. US Embassy destroyed in car bombing. 63 killed, 17 were Americans. Islamic Jihad calims responsibility.

1983- October 23, Beirut, Lebanon. US Marine barracks attacked by truck bomb. 241 Marines killed. At the same time, the French barracks in West Beirut were attacked, killing 58 French Paratroopers.

1983- November 6. Washington DC. Armed Resistance Unit sets off a bomb near the Senate chamber at the Capitol building.

1983- December 12. Kuwait. Al-Dawa terrorists attack the American and French embassies in Kuwait with truck bombs. Five are killed.

1983- December 31. New York. the FALN stages four coordinated attacks on police headquarters, the FBI headquarters and the Federal Courthouse in NY. Three are wounded.

1984- January 1. Beirut Lebanon. The President of American University, Malcolm Kerr is killed by Islamic Jihad. 1985- April 12, Madrid Spain. Bomb explodes near US base. 18 Spaniards killed, 82, including 15 Americans wounded.

1985- June 14. Beirut, Lebanon. TWA 847 hijacked. there are 104 Americans, and 49 other passengers on board. A US Navy diver is killed by hijackers. 39 passengers are held hostage for weeks. Hezbollah masterminded the hijacking.

1985- June 19. San Salvador, El Salvador. Thirteen, including 4 marines and 2 U.S. businessmen die in an attack on an outdoor cafe.

1985- August 8. Frankfurt Germany. Car bombing at US base at Rhein-Main. 2 killed, 20 wounded. Another soldier is found dead later, murdered for his ID. The Red Army Faction claims responsibility.

1985- October 7. Mediterainian Sea. Terrorsits from the Popular Liberation Front hijack the cruise ship Achille Lauro. 69 year old Leon Klinghoffer, an American is killed, and his body is thrown over in his wheelchair. The remaining hostages are released after two days.

1985- November 24. Malta. Hijackers kill an American passenger on Egypt Air 648. Before the hijacking is over, 60 more are killed.

1985- November 25. Frankfurt Germany. A car bomb near the PX injures 35.

1985- December 18, Rome & Vienna International Airports. Simultaneous attacks on the US and Israeli check in areas. 20 killed.

1986- April 2. Greece. A bomb kills four on board a TWA flight for Greece. The plane was able to land safely.

1986- April 5. Berlin, Germany. Two off duty US Servicemen and a Turkish national are killed when a bomb is detonated in a West Berlin Disco. 229 wounded, including 79 Americans. Lybian involvement.

1987- April 24. Greece. 16 US servicemen are injured in a bomb attack. Revolutionary Organization 17 November claims responsibility.

1987- August 10. Greece. Revolutionary Organization 17 November injures 10 US servicemen in a bus attack.

1987- October 26. Phillipines. The New People's Army kills four Americans near Clark Air Force base.

1987- December 26. Barcelona, Spain. Catalan seperatists detonate a grenade in a USO bar, killing one serviceman and injuring 9 others.

1988- April 14. Naples, Italy. The Japanese Red Army detonates a car bomb outside the USO club in Naples. Five are killed.

1988- June 28. Athens, Greece. Captain William Nordeen is killed by a car bomb planted by Revolutionary Organization 17 November.

1988- August 8. La Paz, Bolivia. Simon Bolivar Commandos attempt to assassinate Secretary of State George Schulz.

1988- December 21, Lockerbie, Scotland. Pan AM 103 en route to New York is destroyed by a bomb in flight. 259 people on board, including 189 Americans and 11 on the ground are killed.

1989- March 10. A bomb destorys the van driven by the wife of Capt. Will Rogers, Captain of the USS Vincennes. She escapes without injury.

1990- March 17. Fort Meyers, FL. Pablo Escobar's minions firebomb the DEA office in Fort Meyers.

1993- January 25. Langley, VA. Mir Amal Kansi, a Pakistani, kills two CIA employees, and wounds three others outside of CIA headquarters.

1993- February 26. New York City. Truck bomb explodes in the parking garage of the World Trade Center. Six killed, 1,040 injured. The blast causes $300 million worth of damage. Six men were convicted, they have strong Al Qaeda ties.

1995- March, 8. Karachi, Pakistan. Two employees of the US Consulate are killed by unidentified gunmen.

1995- April 19, Oklahoma City. Car bomb explodes in front of the Federal building. 168 killed in blast, including 19 children in a day care center. 600 wounded. One person dies in rescue effort.

1995- Spetember 13, Moscow. An RPG is fired at the Amercian Embassy, causing minor damage.

1995- November 13, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Car bomb kills Seven. Five were civillian advisers for the National Guard.

1996- June 25. Dharan, Saudi Arabia. Truck bomb explodes at Khobar military complex. 19 killed, nearly 500 hundered injured. Hezbollah.

1996- July 27. Altlanta, Georgia. Pipe bomb explodes during Olympic games. 1 killed, 111 wounded.

1997- November 12. Karachi, Pakistan. Four employees of Union Texas Patroleum are murdered in retailiation for the guilty verdict for Mir Amil Kansi.

1998- June 21. Beirut Lebanon. Rocket propelled grenade explodes at US embassy. No injuries reported.

1998- August 7. Nairobi, Kenya. Truck bomb destroys US embassy, killing 213, 12 of whom were Americans and injuring several thousand. Bombers have Al Qaeda ties.

1998- August 7, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Truck bomb destroys US embassy, killing 11, injuring 86. No American deaths. Coordinated with the Nairobi attack, bombers have Al Qaeda ties.

2000- October 12. Aden, Yeman. USS Cole is attacked when entering port. 17 sailors killed, 39 injured. Bombers have Al Qaeda ties.

2001- June 12. Phillipines. Abu Sayyaf, with ties to Al Qaeda, behead Giliermo Sobero one of three American hostages.

2001- September 11.

2002- January 25. Karachi, Pakistan. Daniel Pearl, Wall Street Journal reporter taken hostage by The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. Murdered on or about 2/21.

The list gets even longer if you include hijackings that didn't result in death, or hijackings of American owned aircraft that were not en route to or from an American destination without any American's aboard. And longer still if you include unsuccessful bombing attempts, or other events like the 1975 murder of Myrna Opsahl during a bank robbery stage by the SLA. In the 60's, there were a number of bombings at government facilites, Universities, etc. in protest of the Vietnam war. I didn't include the Unabomber, who killed three and injured 29 in a letter bombing spree that lasted almost 20 years...

August 1982: Honolulu, Hawaii. Pan Am airplane
Bomb
1 killed, several injured
Palestinian terrorist Mohammad Rashid

December 1983: Kuwait City, U.S. Embassy
Suicide truck bomb
Six killed; dozens injured
17 pro-Iranian terrorists convicted

June 1985: TWA flight 847
Hijacking to Beirut
One killed
Lebanese Party of God faction

June 1985: El Salvador
Machine gun
13 killed

August 1985, Germany, American base in Frankfurt
car bomb
Two killed, 20 injured

November 1985: Egypt Air flight 648
Hijacking to Malta
60 killed
Abu Nidal's Arab Revolutionary Command

December 1985: Rome and Vienna
Airport attacks at U.S. and Israeli airport check-in desks
16 killed

February 1986: Lisbon, U.S. embassy
Car bomb
No injuries
Leftist guerrillas take credit

April 1986: West Berlin night club
Bomb
Three killed, 150 injured
A Libyan diplomat, two Palestinians and two Germans were responsible

April 1986: Rome to Athens TWA flight
Bomb
Four killed
Mohammed Rashid, Palestinian terrorist, members of Iraqi backed May 15 organization were responsible

June 1987: Rome, U.S. Embassy
Rocket fired on embassy
Minor injuries
Japan-based Red Army terrorists

February 1988: Southern Lebanon
Kidnapping
One U.S. Marine executed
Lebanese Party of God was responsable

March 1988: Bogota, Colombia
Rocket- propelled grenade
Minor damage
Guerrilla group

July 1993: Lima, Peru
Bomb explodes in bus outside embassy
One killed
Shining Path guerrillas suspected

March 1995: Karachi, Pakistan, U.S. Consulate
Murder
Two American diplomats killed
Possible retaliation for World Trade Center bombing conviction

September 1995: Moscow, U.S. Embassy
Rocket-propelled grenade
Minor damage
No suspects

Oct 1995: USA, train travelling between Miami and Los Angeles and derailed in Arizona
Derailed by sabotage. Two of the bolts on one of the joints of the track were removed.
1 killed, 80 injured
Previously unknown group calling themselves "The Sons of the Gestapo".

February 1996: Athens, U.S. Embassy
Anti-tank missile attack
No injuries
National Struggle terrorist group

July 1996: USA, Centenary Park in Atlanta, Georgia. Olympic Games.
Bomb
2 killed, 110 injured

November 1997: Karachi, Pakistan
Murder of American oil-company employees
Five killed
Possible revenge for U.S. conviction of Pakistani for murders of two CIA agents

June 1998: Lebanon, U.S. Embassy
Rocket-propelled grenades
No injuries

I almost forgot. There was a bombing on Wall Street in New York in 1920. Here's a link to an article about that:

Wall Street Bombing

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The assassination of Robert Kennedy by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan.

Lets not forget "Eco-terrorism:

September 26, 2001 OR: In testimony before Portland City Council members considering the continuation of a joint terrorism task force, the associate director of the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center recounted his trip from Oregon Health Sciences University to a Florida university for a job interview. Animal rights activists posted the details of his trip on the Internet before his departure. Animal rights activists greeted him at the airport, accompanied him to most of his meetings (open to the public under Florida's "open meeting" laws), knocked on his hotel door at night and made threatening phone calls to him at his hotel. The university assigned a state police escort for him; he was surrounded by extremists at the airport upon his departure, and did not get the job, as he was considered a political liability.

September 24, 2001 UT: A card left at a gas and oil exploration site near Moab claimed ELF credit for vandalizing seismic equipment used in the operation.

September 21,

September 20, 2001 Washington, DC: The Fund for Animals and Animal Legal Defense Fund filed suit against the Bureau of Land Management to block the removal of 21,000 wild horses from federal lands across the west. The suit argues that BLM never fully studied the potential impact of culling the wild herds.

September 20, 2001 NM: ALF claimed responsibility for the 4:15 a.m. arson at the White Sands Research Center, Coulston Foundation Labs in Alamogordo. The facility, holding the world's largest collection of domesticated chimpanzees, sustained estimated losses of $1 million in tools, equipment and records. Researchers at the lab study cures for aids, hepatitis and other illnesses. In the attack, bombs were placed at two locations, one went off and one failed to ignite.

September 20, 2001 UT: Activists targeted Tucson's Ronald McDonald statue in front of the Ronald McDonald House, a home for families of seriously ill children. The "ALF", "ELF", swastikas and vulgarities left on statue were the same as those found on the walls of a McDonald's restaurant destroyed in Tucson on September 8, 2001.

September 19, 2001 UK: Scotland's parliament passed a bill outlawing hunting with dogs, which would also end foxhunting by the end of next year.

September 19, 2001 NY: ELF activist Connor Cash, previously charged with arson and arson conspiracy for torching five Long Island homes under construction last winter, was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of providing material support to terrorists. Cash's transportation and procurement of materials used in ELF arson and vandalism raids were the basis for the added charge.

September 18, 2001 UK: Eleven people suspected of being key players in animal rights extremism are arrested on fraud charges, stemming from misusing tens of thousands of pounds obtained from the government's Department for Education and Skills. Detectives believe the five men and six women arrested at eight different locations diverted the money to fund animal rights activities.

September 16, 2001 UK: Investors doing business with Huntingdon Life Sciences won tentative approval from the Financial Services Authority to conduct business anonymously. A draft agreement is now before the Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stock-Brokers to complete the procedures necessary to shield participants from animal rights activist protests and assaults.

September 14, 2001 IN: Charges against Frank Ambrose for tree spiking were dropped in Bloomington by the prosecution today, with reservation for pursuing the same or other charges in the future. Citing their conclusion after investigation that a larger conspiracy was involved in the tree spiking, authorities dismissed the case. Ambrose had been charged in January with spiking trees in June 2000, at a logging site in the Monroe State forest, after being connected with visits to the timber sale and hardware used in tree spiking.

September 11, 2001 CA: Lindsay Parme, Geoff Dervishian and Lisa Lakeman, arrested at a July 21, 2001 fur protest against Nieman Marcus in San Francisco are convicted on five charges, including conspiracy, obstruction of business and passively resisting arrest; sentencing to follow.

September 10, 2001 Germany: Animal rights slogans were left at a site where approximately 10,000 mink were released from a farm in Neuenkirchen, Osnabruk.

September 8, 2001 AZ: ALF claimed an estimated half million in damage at a McDonald's arson in Tucson. "ALF," "ELF," obscenities and swastikas were spray-painted on the buildings in the attack.

September 6, 2001 UK: Protesters chained themselves to drums at a Shell oil refinery near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire in a demonstration against Shell product testing connections with Huntingdon Life Sciences. Police arrested 27 protesters after the road to the plant had to be closed, disrupting rush hour traffic.

September 3, 2001 IL: ALF claimed responsibility for breaking, entering and releasing more than 750 ducks and ducklings from the Whistling Wings duck breeding facility in Hanover.

August 29, 2001 New Zealand: The 34th International Congress of Physiological Sciences in Christchurch, attended by over 3,000 scientists, received a death threat aimed at California Michael Stryker, a sleep deprivation research scientist. Animal rights protesters amassed to protest the conference and police responded with sufficient force to keep a lid on violence throughout the conference. An anonymous letter received by government officials and the press stated that a "good California doctor" was targeted and that before leaving New Zealand, "…he may be dead."

August 28, 2001 WI: In the continuation of a battle which included overwhelming support and approval last April for the first mourning dove hunt in Wisconsin, animal rights forces obtained an eleventh hour injunction against the hunt, scheduled for Saturday, September 1, 2001. Relying on ambiguity in regulation and contesting the authority of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to allow the hunt, animal rights attorneys succeeded in putting enough evidence before Dane County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Moeser to put a hold on the hunt. Hunt officials are trying to notify the expected 30,000 hunters that the hunt is called off.

August 27, 2001 Canada: Hunt of a Lifetime announced plans to provide a deer hunting trip for a child with a life-threatening illness. The trip fills in the gap left when the Make a Wish Foundation two years ago succumbed to animal rights pressure to deny hunting trips for children similarly afflicted. The parents of the child asked the media to not reveal their location as they’ve been receiving disturbing calls from animal rights activists.

August 26, 2001 India: Eddie Bauer, L.L. Bean, Timberland and Casual Corner announced that leather from India will not be purchased. Travel 2000, German-based Bader, Gap, Inc., Liz Claiborne, J. Crew, Marks & Spencer and others have declared similar policies. The announcements follow animal rights publicity surrounding slaughter and leather processing practices in India.

August 23, 2001 Netherlands: In the second major mink farm attack in Europe this summer, hundreds of mink were destroyed on roads and in the surrounding area of a mink farm in Valkensward, near Eindhoven, when approximately 17,000 mink were released.

August 21, 2001 Norway: An ALF press release claimed credit for releasing about 1,200 mink from a farm in Telemarken, Norway, southeast of Oslo. Almost all of the animals were recovered.

August 21, NY: ELF claimed credit for damage in a misguided attempt to vandalize a site they believed to be carrying on genetic research. The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, involved in cancer research, sustained an estimated $15,000 in destruction.

August 20, 2001 Scotland: A box and note claiming the contents to be anthrax arrived at St. Andrews University, where William of Wales, future King of England, is enrolled. Analysis proved the substance to be curry powder, police suspected the anti-royalist Scottish National Liberation Army and also the animal rights' movement, which condemns William's love of fox hunting.

August 16, 2001 UK: One of the three men who assaulted Brian Cass, managing director of Huntingdon Life Sciences, at his home, received a sentence of three years in jail for his part in the attack. David Blenkinsop and two others donned ski masks and ambushed Cass as he arrived home, bludgeoning him with wooden staves and pickaxe handles. DNA on the handles and Blenkinsop’s clothing helped convict him of the offense. Police are still searching for the other two attackers.

August 14, 2001 UK: A Brighton retail shop suffered 4 smashed windows after animal rights protesters complained about sales of products made from rabbit fur. Damages to the Southern Handicrafts shop were estimated at "hundreds" of pounds.

August 11, 2001 UK: An animal rights march in Oxford resulted in injury to two police officers involved in a scuffle with some of the 500 protesters. The marchers protested research at Huntingdon Life Sciences.

August 5, 2001 OR: PETA targeted Oregon for protests against the March of Dimes because of its support of research performed at the Oregon Primate Research Center. Billboards were scheduled for Salem and Portland, and protests planned at March of Dimes offices in Portland and Eugene. March of Dimes officials noted that OPRC research benefits drug addicted babies and the blind.

August 3, 2001 MD: Montgomery County authorities attribute dognappings by animal rights activists who appear to be dissatisfied with police response to dog abuse calls. Police are looking for Patricia L. Tereskiewicz, on information that she had taken two dogs from the back yard of an owner who had been the subject of animal abuse complaints.

August 2, 2001 UK: The Bank of New York found the names of account holders posted on the Internet by animal rights protesters. The bank, which does business with Huntingdon Life Sciences laboratories, had to change hundreds of internal passwords and seek the source of internal leaks. A protest group stormed the 49th floor bank offices at Canary Wharf in London a day earlier, but guards prevented them from getting past the reception area.

July 31, 2001 Spain: 13,000 mink were released from a farm in la Puebla de Valverde, near Madrid. 270 feet of fences were torn down and 1,150 cages were opened. The local citizenry recovered about 6,000 mink.

July 28, 2001 UK: Glynn Harding, a 26-year-old schizophrenic, admitted three charges of causing bodily injury by explosives and 12 counts of sending an explosive with intent. He also admitted to possessing bomb making materials. His participation in a highly publicized letter bomb campaign last winter and this spring blinded one woman in one eye and left a six-year-old girl scarred.

July 27, 2001 WA: A anonymous group using ELF communiqué-releasing services announced the spiking of "hundreds" of trees in units 5,6 and 7 of the Upper Greenhorn timber sale in the Cowlitz Valley Ranger District in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. They claimed that 60-penny nails were inserted high and low in the 99-acre timber sale area.

July 25, 2001 NY: Via communiqué, a group calling itself Pirates for Animal Rights claimed credit for sinking a yacht owned by a Bank of New York executive. The scuttling and moorage damage were claimed to be in reaction to BNY financial services that could be interpreted as benefiting Huntingdon Life Sciences. Subsequent inspection by authorities revealed that the vandals had drilled several holes above the water line and cut a fuel hose on a 21’ boat and had not sunk it.

July 23, 2001 St. Lucia: The coast guard escorted the Sea Shepherd out of St. Lucia’s waters in the Caribbean after complaints of harassment against fishermen.

July 21, 2001 KY: ELF vandals slashed tires on 15 vehicles, spray-painted slogans and broke windows at the Dynergy power plant. An ELF communiqué claimed credit for the action.

July 19, 2001 UK: A nude Bruce Friedrich, campaign manager for PETA, charged President George W. Bush as he arrived at Buckingham Palace. Friedrich had a web address painted on his back, was clad in only shoes and eyeglasses. Police hauled him away, he was not charged, and later claimed that PETA had sent out 40,000 start-up packs from internet requests resulting from the publicity

July 17, 2001 CA: Authorities were called to investigate Heavenly Valley Ski Resort’s new gondola in South Lake Tahoe after a 2x16-inch stick was found wired to a steel cable, safety sensors had been wired to the gondola cable and broken, and the letters ELF had been formed with wire at the base of one of the support towers.

July 17, 2001 NE: In the fourth golf course vandalism incident in the Omaha area since late June, greens and fairways were dug up and buildings were spray painted. ELF was spray painted in one sand trap, damages were estimated at $5-7,000 at the most recent golf course vandalism. Three teens were arrested on July 19th and indicated association with the ELF.

July 13, 2001 NJ: Eight protesters were arrested in Brunswick at the Bank of New York following a demonstration against Huntingdon Life Sciences. Two juveniles were released, but the remaining 6 adults were held in lieu of $25,000 bail on charges ranging from trespass to criminal mischief to endangerment of persons.

July 5, 2001 OR: Federal law enforcement officials met with US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) to discuss threats posed by domestic terrorist organizations such as ALF and ELF and laws that require law enforcement to follow ethical standards in seeking warrants for wiretaps and other investigative work. The laws have been interpreted by the Oregon Supreme Court as applying to covert police actions, and thus prohibiting the use of deception in such efforts. Law enforcement officials note that this ruling seriously hampers their efforts to gather information and admissible evidence in the course of their work.

July 4, 2001 MI: An ELF act of arson gutted a Weyerhaeuser office in protest over support for the genetic engineering work on poplar and cottonwood trees conducted by Oregon State University and the University of Washington. An communiqué claimed credit for the attack, along with responsibility for the destruction of eight Ford Expeditions by arson at Roy O’Brien Ford in June, and the destruction of two plate glass windows and a drive-through at a newly-built McDonald’s, also in June.

June 22, 2001 UK: Marks & Spencer stopped selling Indian leather products in response to PETA’s two-year campaign against leather imports from India.

June 17, 2001 WI: An early morning fire substantially damaged the Redgranite feed facility, formerly known as a Mink Farm. Two firefighters were hurt in fighting the blaze, one was treated and released, one held in intensive care for smoke inhalation.

June 15, 2001 NY: Twelve activists were arrested while demonstrating against Huntingdon Life Sciences at the Greenlawn Branch of the Bank of New York. Police reported that the demonstrators stormed the bank building and disrupted business. They were arrested, charged with riot in the second degree, and held in lieu of $500 bail.

June 14, 2001 AZ: Mark Warren Sands was arrested and indicted on 22 counts for setting fires to eight homes in Phoenix and Scottsdale between April 9, 2000 and January 18, 2001. Some of the luxury homes, under construction when torched, were valued at over a $million each. Sands claimed at his initial hearing that "God’s work has to be done."

June 14, 2001 AZ: Mark Warren Sands was arrested and charged with arson and extortion in the fires of recently built and under construction luxury homes in Phoenix and suburban Scottsdale. A 22-count federal indictment charges Warren with setting 8 fires. He was arrested earlier this year after being caught tagging a home under construction with the acronym "CSP," said to stand for Coalition to Save the Preserves.

June 13, 2001 NJ: At least fifteen demonstrators were taken into custody after violating a restraining order requiring them to stay away from the home of an executive of Huntingdon Life Sciences. The protesters gathered at the home in the evening after a day of protests at a Bank of New York in Brunswick and also at the HLS laboratory in East Brunswick. June 13, 2001 NY Five Long Island branches of the Bank of New York were attacked by ALF and ELF protesters claiming that BNY was doing business with Huntingdon Life Sciences. Protesters painted ALF, ELF and graffiti and smashed at least 13 windows, glued ATM keypads and jammed card slots with plastic. A joint press release by ALF and ELF, issued from British Columbia, claimed responsibility for the effort (and also claimed 25 windows smashed). The protest was aimed at breaking ties with US businesses that provide a means for investment in Huntingdon Life Sciences. The communiqué also announced a schedule for harassment and protests aimed at the bank and included names, phone numbers and addresses of targets, using both business locations and personal residence locations.

June 12, 2001 AZ: Four luxury homes burned overnight in a construction project inside an upscale gated community. Authorities are looking for ties to previous arson fires of luxury homes by eco-terrorists. The initials CSP, standing for "Coalition to Save the Preserves," were sprayed on at least one home. Two of the homes had been sold and two were still on the market. None were occupied yet, and damage was estimated at $2 million. The four homes in total were valued at $5 million.

June 12, 2001 OR: Jeffrey Michael Luers, age 22, was sentenced to 22 years, 8 months in prison for his part in arson attacks in Eugene last year. Another activist apprehended in the same arson, Craig Marshall, entered into a plea bargain agreement last November and is now serving a 5-year sentence. Luers's defense that he took pains not to injure people and was frustrated about the growing ecological destruction of the planet did not mitigate the measure 11 mandatory sentencing guidelines or otherwise soften his sentencing. The same auto dealership that Luers was convicted of torching went up in flames again on March 30, 2001, damaging 35 SUV's and producing over a $1 million in damage.

June 12, 2001 MO: A 30-year-old animal rights activist attacked a "Survivor" series cast member at a workplace safety promotion, pepper spraying him in the face and hitting several onlookers, including children, as well. Police arrested the attacker. Michael Skupin, who lasted six weeks on "Survivor," attributed the attack to his killing of a pig for food on the series.

June 11, 2001 UT: A Bed, Bath & Beyond store became the latest target for animal rights protesters attacking supporters of Huntingdon Life Sciences. The ALF claimed that the smashing of 45 windows and spray painting of slogans was in retaliation for Bed, Bath & Beyond financial dealings with Stephens, Inc., a New Jersey investment company connected with Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British drug testing laboratory.

June 10, 2001 ID: In a second attack on the biotechnology building at the University of Idaho, ELF members removed survey stakes and painted anti-bioengineering slogans on the outside of the building. An ELF communique published on June 18, 2001 claimed credit for the activity.

June 10, 2001 ID: Anti-bioengineering activists destroyed pea patches at the Siminis research center in Filer. A communique release claimed credit for removing pea plants from about 20 patches, suspected of being genetically altered, and detailed information on how the facility had been identified through use of the internet and USDA public information on research projects.

June 6, 2001 OR: Jeffrey Luers, charged and convicted of 5 counts of arson for attacks on the Joe Romania truck lot and the Tyee Oil Company last year, faces a possible sentence of 7 ½ years in prison. The Romania lot was the target of a second arson by others still at large this past March, with damages estimated at $1 million.

June 6, 2001 UK: About a dozen animal rights activists chained themselves by their throats to the doors of Morgan Stanley's offices in east London. The demonstration attempted to block entry to the building and was conducted because of Morgan Stanley's association with Huntingdon Life Sciences.

June 5, Washington, DC: At a joint-university news conference MSU’s director of the Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project estimated that the university would spend more than $1 million in security improvement and repairs as a result of the arson that destroyed her office in January, 2000.

June 5, 2001 MI: The director of Agricultural Biotechnology at Michigan State University estimated that nearly $1 million had been spent to improve security and rebuild the fourth floor of the agriculture hall after arson destroyed her office in January, 2000.

June 5, 2001 OH: PETA launched its campaign against Burger King by passing out leaflets to school children in Dayton, Ohio. Students leaving Wilbur Wright Middle School were met by Mercy for Animals members handing out paper crowns with golden points impaling pigs and cows and details of how animals are treated in factory farms.

June 4, 2001 WI: Lawmakers are drafting legislation to make intentionally infecting animals with diseases illegal in an effort to head off agri-terrorism.

June 2, 2001 WA: After assessing the extent of wreckage from an ELF arson attack at the Center for Urban Horticulture on May 21, 2001, University of Washington requests $5.4 million from the state legislature for program and building repairs.

June 2, 2001 UK: About a dozen protesters demonstrated for approximately an hour in front of Iams offices in Leicestershire. Asking passing motorists to stop supporting the pet food company, protesters objected to animal experimentation in the manufacturing of pet food.

June 1, 2001 OR: The Oregon legislature unanimously approved the third and final part of a package intended to combat eco-terrorism. Last month, HB2344 and HB2385 were signed into law, expanding Oregon's racketeering statutes to include crimes against research, livestock and agricultural facilities and make "interference with agricultural research" a new crime. HB2947 includes technical clarifications of the crimes of research and animal interference and interference with livestock production.

June 1, 2001 OR: Incendiary devices were placed under 6 log trucks in Estacada. One went off, three trucks were burned, one destroyed. The trucks were to be used in Eagle Creek watershed logging operations, which have been protested for about two years to date. Damage was estimated at $50,000 for the destroyed truck.

May 31, 2001 Canada: In a raid late this month, Toronto police arrested two men and put out an appeal for apprehension of a third in connection with animal cruelty charges stemming from the videotaped skinning of live animals. The video showed a cat being tortured and killed allegedly by a self-styled artist and vegan protesting animal cruelty. Anthony Ryan Wenneker, 24, and Jessie Champlain Powers, 21 were arrested. The raid turned up a headless, skinned cat in the refrigerator, along with other animal skeletons, including a dog, some mice and rats, and the videos. Police are searching for the third person seen in the videos.

May 23, 2001 UK: Three men, ages 34, 31 and 34, were arrested for the attack on Brian Cass, Director of Huntingdon Life Sciences. The baseball bat brandishing attackers split Cass' scalp and bruised him and sprayed a would-be rescuer with CS gas on February 22, 2001. One of the men was arrested at an animal sanctuary run by TV script writer Carla Lane.

May 23, 2001 UK: Three activists climbed atop the roof of Japanese pharmaceutical company Yamanouchi in West Byfleet, Surrey. Yamanouchi has ties to Huntingdon Life Sciences.

May 23, 2001 UT: Animal rights activist Eric Ward was sentenced to two days in jail and ordered to pay a $1,850 fine, $375 restitution for damage to property and $715 to the fire department. The sentencing stemmed from a protest at the L'Ours Blanc fur store in Salt Lake City.

May 22, 2001 CA: The combination of the 1998 ban on certain kinds of traps and the ban on cougar hunting in California has been accompanied by a rise in alarming statistics. USDA recently released figures showing that the 5,600 animal kills by predators in 1995 had jumped to 14,900 last year. The loss to ranchers was estimated at $5 million in the year 2000. Mountain lions killed 3,300 cattle and calves last year, compared to 1,500 animal kills five years ago.

May 21, 2001 OR/WA: Two sites in Oregon and Washington were the subjects of ELF arson attacks. The Oregon attack at Clatskanie destroyed an equipment building and a maintenance building; about a half dozen pickups, all-terrain vehicles and a semi-trailer at Jefferson Poplar Farms tree nursery. The Washington blaze gutted laboratories and offices at the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle. ELF anti-genetic engineering graffiti was left in Oregon, no clues in Washington, however ELF claimed credit for both arsons in subsequent communications later in the month. The Oregon damage was estimated at $500,000. No genetically engineered trees were grown on the 7,300 acre facility. Washington's toll came to the loss of 20+ years of research, destroyed irreplaceable books, data, research specimens and laboratory samples, displacement of 28 staff members and students from Merrill Hall and $5.4 million in damage.

May 16, 2001 CA: Anti-biotech activists destroyed an undetermined amount of strawberry, tomato and onion plants at an ELM-owned research facility in Brentwood.

May 14, 2001 PA: ALF claims responsibility for hacking into Primate Products, a company that supplies primates for Huntingdon Life Sciences animal testing work. The web site was changed in content and graphics.

May 14, 2001 CA: Seven more activists were arrested for blocking a Pacific Lumber Co. logging crew's access to the Mattole River watershed in Humboldt County near Scotia.

May 13, 2001 MS: Since the beaver trapping ban of 1996, the Massachusetts beaver population, which has no natural predator to control its expansion, has tripled. The population is conservatively estimated at 61,000 today, and without controls, it's possible to grow to 100,000. Tree damage and waterway interference are causing significant property owner problems. The state enacted legislation last summer that gave local health departments the authority to trap and kill beavers when public health and safety is threatened, but did not fund the measure, leaving the cost for containment and correction up to the towns or private citizens.

May 11, 2001 CA: In connection with protests over Pacific Lumber Co. logging of 3,000 acres of old growth timber at the Mattole River watershed near Scotia, a 19-year-old AmeriCorps volunteer took a group of high school students to the protest site under the auspices of the Urban Pioneer Program offered by McAteer High School. The Program allows students to explore everything from rock climbing to auto mechanics, so when permission slips were requested for a trip to Humboldt County, parents apparently provided them. The students were supposed to be studying organic farming and efforts to revive salmon, however, the volunteer leader, a member of the Earth First! Environmental protest group took the group to the protest site where the students, aged 15 to 17, were arrested by police and taken to the Eureka juvenile hall (more than 20 protesters have been arrested at the site in the past few weeks). The volunteer leader, David Wehrer of San Francisco, was in trouble with school authorities and was also charged by the Humboldt County District Attorney with 16 criminal charges: 8 counts of felony child endangerment and 8 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor. The charges of trespass were dropped against the high school students.

May 10, 2001 UK: Thirteen Huntingdon Life Sciences protesters entered the Bank of New York's first floor reception area dressed as office workers, and eight of them chained themselves together. One month ago, SHAC protesters occupied the bank's offices on the 49th floor for 11 hours. Security personnel hauled the thirteen involved in this incident out to the street, none were arrested.

May 10, 2000 Canada: Loggers in the forests of the West Kootenays found trees spiked with concrete plugs. The concrete spikes, set in plastic piping and slipped into holes bored into the trees, had bark glued to the exposed ends, making visual detection nearly impossible and rendering magnetic detection useless. No one has claimed credit for the potentially lethal act.

May 10, 2001 CO: In a bizarre scenario, a nonprofit horse rescue group, setting up shop on their 50-acre farm was ordered by land use authorities to "move" a colony of prairie dogs and to revegetate the property while it attempted to rescue horses. Because zoning regulations don't distinguish between moving and extermination, and because it's legal to kill prairie dogs on private property, and because revegetation is difficult to impossible over a colony of prairie dogs, the rescue group hired workers to stuff the prairie dog holes with newspapers soaked with poison. A zoning official stopped the rescue group from the activity, claiming that the poison would make the prairie dogs bleed internally and burst open, and members of the animal rights group Rocky Mountain Animal Defense came out and spent 4 hours removing the newspapers before being stopped and ordered to leave by the sheriff's department. In addition, the horse rescue group had asked the state Division of Wildlife for help in moving the prairie dogs, and the Division had spent $2,385 plus labor and equipment to create a new habitat on 35 acres of the rescue group's land and the Division is now contemplating charging the group for the work, if the extermination is completed and there are no prairie dogs to relocate.

May 9, 2001 Israel: Shraga Segal, an immunologist and former dean of the Ben-Gurion University medical school, resigned his post as chairman of the government body that supervises research involving animals. Segal received a faxed death threat and threats of violence against his family.

May 5, 2001 TX: Protesters acting against housing development in 37 acres of thick cedar woods in West Lake Hills, torched a backhoe and left graffiti on a portable toilet, causing $82,000 in damage.

May 4, 2001 UT: US District Court Judge Bruce Jenkins ruled that language in Utah's new commercial terrorism law may be unconstitutional. The statute prohibits light or sound waves from disrupting a business. That, for the judge, was too vague for enforcement without violating first amendment protections.

May 3, 2001 WA: Washington's voter-approved anti-trapping measure appears to prohibit the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife from trapping river otters, one of the major predators of salmon and trout in state fish hatcheries. The Department is wrestling with ways to interpret the language or methods to gain an exemption that would permit trapping to protect the fish.

May 2, 2001 UK: 92 people were arrested in London during May Day violence. Protesters included environmentalists, animal rights groups and campaigners against arms trade. Police were organized and prevented the massive disruptions that occurred last year, and characterized this year's crowd as "largely peaceful." However, Westminster City Council estimated the damage in the violence-hit areas to stores, shops and other businesses to be $29 million and lost business. The cost for police protection was not included in the tally.

April 29, 2001 NY: More than 250 ducks were removed from the Cornell University Duck Laboratory and Farm in Eastport, Long Island. Workers Sunday morning found graffiti and dead animals and forcibly entered barns. Police believe ALF activists are behind the theft and damage. According to researchers, the ducks were being used in duck virus research and were on a special diet and probably would not survive in the wild or outside the laboratory.

April 28, 2001 CA: ALF activists entered the ICRC Company in Castroville and stole 28 rabbits. An ALF communiqué released after the theft revealed that the thieves did now know exactly what kind of research was being conducted at the facility.

April 27, 2001 WA: Governor Gary Locke signed into law this week a measure that would make it a misdemeanor to knowingly interfere with or recklessly injure a guide dog, or to allow one's dog to obstruct or intimidate a guide dog. Repeat offenses could net up to one year in jail and a $5,000 fine. The measure sailed through the legislature in record time after reports of blind people being harassed by animal rights fanatics, both verbally and by looking for opportunities to separate the guide dogs from their owners.

April 27, 2001 IL: Two SHAC activists attempted to occupy the Chicago Branch of Stephens Inc. Investment Company. Two activists caused a disruption in the NY Stephens Building.

April 26, 2001 MS: 30 activists from the Boston Coalition for Animal Liberation tried to take over the local offices of the Stephens Incorporated Investment Company. They were protesting the Stephens link with Huntingdon Life Sciences. No activists made it into the building, but three chained themselves outside, using pipe and bicycle chains. Twelve activists attempted to occupy the Stephens office in San Francisco. Three ADL activists attempted to storm the Stephens office in Atlanta.

April 26, 2001 OR: On the heels of cougar complaints rising from 151 in 1992 to 645 in 2000, an Oregon Senate panel approved a bill to allow shooting cougar and bear without hunting tags or licenses if the animals pose a threat to humans. Oregon voters passed a ban on cougar/bear hunting with dogs in 1994, causing a rural uproar over the inherent dangers in such protection. Despite animal rights proponents' assurances of relative safety, researchers say that there were more cougar attacks - and resulting deaths - in the 1990s than in any decade in the past century. Under the bill, animals that exhibit aggressive behavior or break into a home, attack pets, or are repeatedly spotted during the day near structures used by humans could be killed.

April 25, 2001 NJ: The State Commission of Investigation released a report on SPCA chapters throughout New Jersey, citing poor conditions, deplorable conditions, absence of financial controls, wanton spending and duplicitous activity. The investigation concluded in December, 2000, and recommended stripping the SPCAs of their power to enforce animal cruelty laws. It also recommended that municipalities should be mandated to place the enforcement function with their animal control officers. The report concluded that the welfare of animals in the state was not being served.

April 22, 2001 Germany: In one of the biggest arson attacks in Germany, a farm near Dresden that had been the target of animal rights activists on the internet was burned to the ground. Living quarters, feed houses and 8 large buildings that were used to house mink were destroyed. The farm was unoccupied and no animals were present, as it was being converted to crop farming for the upcoming year. The arsonists placed road spikes on the route to the farm, which prevented fire personnel from stopping the blaze.

April 20, 2001 WA: Over 300 mink were released from a farm in Snohomish County. All were female, with most due to give birth within the next few weeks. Over 200 of them were rounded up and returned to the farm through help from local farm families. Estimated losses due to the release are $35,000.

April 19, 2001 WA: Animal rights activists entered a Snohomish mink farm property from the back property line, walked through heavy woods, jumped two fences and barriers to get to the coop area, and released about 200 animals, causing an estimated loss of $35,000. The vandals released animals going from cage to cage and tore up ID cards on the cages that tracked breeding information. Some mink were recovered, many of the lost ones were pregnant. This is the fourth time Brainard's fur farm has been hit in the past five year.

April 19, 2001 UK: In the US District Court for the District of New Jersey, the US subsidiary of Huntingdon Life Sciences joined in the filing of an amended complaint against SHAC, Voices for Animals, Animal Defense League, In Defense of Animals, and certain individuals. The amended filing asserts claims under the Civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Statute (RICO) and cited physical attacks on individual employees, death threats, bomb threats, destruction of property, burglary, harassment and intimidation; and also asserts claims for interference with contractual relations and economic advantage. The original plaintiffs in the action were the Stephens Group and its wholly owned investment-banking subsidiary, Stephens, Inc.

April 18, 2001 WA: State officials determined that IBP Inc., the Northwest's biggest meat packing plant, would not face charges of inhumane slaughter after a prosecutor and state investigators concluded that a clandestine video of slaughterhouse scenes was heavily edited and misleading. A viewing of the full video footage, provided by the Humane Farming Association and other animal rights groups showed corrections of the edited excerpts by workers.

April 16, 2000 Finland: On April 16th, two men and two women were arrested for animal liberation incidents dating back to August, 2000. On April 19th, another man was arrested. Arrested were Brandon David Elder, Mia Liisa Muhonen, Vesa Hyttinen (spokesperson for an animal rights group "Oikeutta elaimille," or "Justice to Animals"), Hannele (Hanna) Kauppinen, and Kristo Muurimaa.

April 15, 2001 OR: ELF arsonists struck at Ross Island Sand & Gravel in Portland, burning 3 cement trucks and causing $210,000 in damage. A company spokesman said that the incident also put three truck drivers out of work until the trucks could be repaired.

April 12, 2001 UK: Reports on the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty web site indicated that a director of a bank holding HLS shares and a drugs company director were the targets of residential protests and vandalism, with the targets' car windows broken, "calling cards" left, and "garden furniture" rearranged. The report was later edited to remove references to the vandalism after a spokesperson for SHAC disclaimed responsibility for entries on the web site and stated support only for peaceful demonstrations.

April 12, 2001 Washington DC: According to "Animal People" (April 2001), IRS authorities are investigating claims of undocumented and unaccounted excess benefit transactions, lodged by a former legal executive secretary/office manager in the office of the General Counsel for the Humane Society of the United States.

April 10, 2001 UK: In what has become standard "house call" harassment, a director of the British arm of the Bank of New York was greeted at his home in Southern England after work by about 50 animal rights protesters with air horns and whistles, some chanting at the tops of their lungs, and accompanied by a PA system recording of a dog howling. The noise lasted about an hour, attracted police and neighbors. The director's bank provides American depository receipts, which permit investors in the US to own shares in Huntingdon Life Sciences.

April 10, 2001 UK: The chief executive of Charles Schwab Europe described employees as being personally threatened, harassed and intimidated by animal rights protesters as the brokerage announced pulling out of trading in Huntingdon Life Sciences shares. Claiming that it was impossible to trade the stock through normal channels, the brokerage response was in reaction to pressure from a concentrated animal rights campaign against customers, investors, creditors and staff of Europe's largest research company.

April 8, 2001 UK: Roche, a pharmaceutical manufacturer with product testing links to Huntingdon Life Sciences, filed an injunction against the internet listing of names, telephone numbers and addresses of the company's scientists and directors. Roche claimed that after publication, employees had been harassed at home by demonstrations and at least one assault, and over the telephone with abusive calls, including death threats. Roche also filed a 50,000-pound suit for breach of copyright for the unauthorized publication of the company's building plans. Animal rights activists Heather James, John Smith and Gamal Gamal were named in the lawsuits.

April 8, 2001 Canada: The Calgary Herald carried an article by Grady Semmens which reported on reactions to the hoof and mouth disaster in Britain. The article cited Ingrid Newkirk of PETA, as saying in reaction to the disease outbreak, "If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals - they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway…I openly hope that it comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence." The Edmonton Sun carried an article the day before citing an interview in which Newkirk reportedly said that introduction of foot and mouth to North America "would be a wake-up call."

April 5, 2001 OR: In early morning hours the FBI, BATF and Oregon State Police served warrants and conducted a search of the business site, personal residence and vehicles of ELF spokesman Craig Rosebraugh. Two others living at his residence were also named in the search. The FBI indicated that it was looking for information relating to the March 30, 2001 auto dealership fire in Eugene, Oregon. Rosebraugh was served with a subpoena to testify before a federal grand jury in Eugene on April 18, 2001.

April 5, 2001 CA: Activists trespassing on Humboldt County land owned by Pacific Lumber Co. were arrested for blocking the company's access road to the area. Two Earth First! Protesters were arrested after an elaborate blockade had been set up for 128 days. The company claimed that the protesters had threatened their wildlife biologists in their efforts to prevent logging on 3,000 acres in the Mattole River watershed.

April 3, 2001 MN: An outlet mall in Albertville closed temporarily when several milk jugs filled with gasoline were discovered on the roof. In one report, ALF claimed credit for the attempted arson, indicating that Nike had been the intended target. Nike shoes and clothing were sold at the outlet mall. Later reports indicated that ELF claimed credit for the attempt as a protest against Nike's role in globalization.

April 2, 2001 UT: The Utah Animal Rights Coalition and two of its members, Summer Adams and Bill French, filed suit to strike down a law passed by the 2001 legislature protecting animal enterprises. Language in the law included prohibitions of anyone from interfering with a business by physically entering the building or emitting a sound wave or light ray that enters the building (people targeted by protests have complained that laser beams have been directed into their homes at night, with the implication that they could be coming from rifles). The lawsuit claimed violation of constitutionally protected free speech.

April 2, 2001 NJ: Three adults and a 17-year old girl were arrested at a noisy protest outside the Huntingdon Life Sciences lab in East Millstone. Police sprayed about a dozen protesters with pepper spray. Arrested were Adam Weissman; Nicholas Hensey; Justin Kelley and the teenager.

April 2, 2001 Germany: Wolfgang Ullruch, former head of a German animal rights foundation, went on trial for allegedly pocketing more than $31 million in donations and membership fees. He and two former assistants of the German and European Animal Relief Organization are accused of taking more than $45 million through a network of firms from 1994 to 1999.

April 1, 2001 NJ: The Animal Defense League relayed a message claiming ALF credit for stealing 14 beagles from a Huntingdon Life Sciences lab in East Millstone. The theft took place the day before a major protest planned for the facility and the day after protests at the residences of Huntingdon employees.

March 30, 2001 VA: An environmental radical group claiming to be a part of ELF spiked trees in a 300-acre tract in Westmoreland County on the Northern Neck timber tract. Rock Hill Lumber spokesmen said the company would have to invest an additional $30-40,000 to use metal detectors and take other safety measures when it harvests the timber next month.

MARCH 30, 2001 0R: The Joe Romania Chevrolet auto dealership in Eugene lost more than 30 new vehicles, gutting several Suburban and Tahoe model cars and causing $1 million in damage. This same dealership was torched last year and one accused arsonist from that fire, Jeffery Michael Luers, is scheduled to go on trial on April 3, 2001. A communiqué released by ELF spokesman Craig Rosebraugh described the incident and claimed credit for the destruction on behalf of ELF principles without specifically naming a group or individuals.

March 29, 2001 MD: Two animal rights activists were arrested after climbing on a Burger King counter and attempting to close the restaurant. Nicholas Jonathan Patch and Sarah Anne Clifton were charged with unlawful entry.

March 28, 2001 UK: Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein removed themselves as the last remaining broker in Huntingdon Life Sciences, withdrawing after an incident involving one of their senior members and animal rights protesters over the weekend.
March 27, 2001 UK: Winterflood Securities deregistered as a market maker for Huntingdon Life Sciences amid mounting protests outside its offices and the homes of directors. Unless a second broker can be found shortly, HLS will be forced to move from the SEAQ trading platform to SEATS Plus, which is primarily used by groups with only one broker. Winterflood officials reported that the protests had moved from their business site to the homes of at least 6 employees, with up to 60 protesters outside a personal residence, threatening and abusive phone calls and terrified families.
March 27, 2001 NC: A state court dismissed two lawsuits against Virginia-based Smithfield Foods. The action had been filed by the Water Keeper Alliance in an attempt to force the hog producer to abide by environmental regulations without going through DEQ to seek enforcement of federal regulations. The coalition filed a similar suit last month in Florida and filed notice of intent to sue in Missouri. Last August, the company and attorney general of North Carolina agreed to conduct research on new waste management technologies. Smithfield committed $15 million to help fund research and $50 million for environmental enhancement programs.
March 27, 2001 Australia: Environmental radicals hold trees hostage in attempt to prevent a bat slaughter. In what officials term the most difficult and serious threat to the Melbourne Botanic Gardens in its 155-year history, a colony of 20,000 fox bats has been slated for culling. They have been destroying plants, some of which are rare exhibits from around the world. Frightening the bats had not worked, so culling by lethal injection and sharpshooting is slated. Activists vowed to cut down a tree for every animal that is killed, and have marked trees that they say are the first to go. According to Garden officials, vandalism has already occurred in reaction to their plans.

March 26, 2001 TX: Three unnamed ranchers and the Texas Farm Bureau and the American Farm Bureau Federation obtained a July 9, 2001 trial date in a lawsuit that seeks a permanent injunction against disclosure by the USDA of names and addresses of farmers using government-provided predator defense livestock collars, designed for use with goats and sheep. The collars are charged with lethal doses of fluoroacetate, which are discharged if bitten by a predator. Activist groups claim a right to the information in order to monitor taxpayer-sponsored federal programs.

March 26, 2001 Washington, DC: The Florsheim Group reportedly ended its leather contract with India, citing documentation provided by PeTA that showed unacceptable treatment of animals. Gap, J Crew, Clarks and Liz Claiborne are also reported to have ended leather contracts with India under similar scenaraios.

MARCH 25, NETHERLANDS: A slaughterhouse burned, causing more than $4 million damage near Eindhoven. ALF admitted responsibility for the arson. The facility was closed for a few days prior to the fire due to hoof and mouth disease restrictions.

March 25, 2001 UK: An animal rights protester at a drug firm in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, was arrested after refusing to remove her hood and show her face fully.

March 24, 2001 OR: A group calling itself "GenetiX Alert" claimed responsibility for destroying over 800 young poplars used in research in two locations in the Corvallis area. Some trees were genetically engineered and others were produced with normal hybrid breeding practices. They were being used in studies on flowering, fertility and cross-pollination.

March 23, 2001 IL: Signs depicting farm animal slaughter in graphic and profane terms were discovered on L trains in Chicago. 28 were removed from the Orange Line and 15 were taken from the Blue Line. The situation was unusual because of the number of signs and the care taken in their format, designed to fit in with other rail car ads.

March 21, 2001 NV: At least seven protesters were arrested at a banking seminar hosted by Stephens Inc., financial supporter of Huntingdon Life Sciences. Las Vegas police were in complete control of the Desert Inn Golf Course and the Monte Carlo Hotel, both focal points of the conference.

March 17, 2001 CA: An ALF communique claimed credit for a raid on Sunny-Cal Eggs in Beaumont, that cited removal of 468 chickens from the premises and reminded readers of the last raid at this site,which occurred in June, 2000. Contact with the company revealed no knowledge or evidence of any break-in or any fowl removal.

March 16, 2001 GA: 5 Animal rights activists were arrested at a demonstration outside the Augusta Golf Club during a coordinated telephone blockade and public protests. The subject of the demonstration was Warren Stephens' recent membership into the exclusive, low-profile club. Those jailed were Chris Edward Freeman, Randall Reid Smith, Lauren Teresa Ornflas, Caitlin Petrakis Childs, and Joseph William Bateman. Instructions on the internet bearing the intro "from lauren@idausa.org" gave specific directions on clogging up the club's telephone system, both locally and through long distance calls. Lauren@idausa also offered to pay for long distance charges if calls were made.

March 12, 2001 UK: Llin golding, a Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire and opponent of a hunting ban bill, was warned that she is on an activist hit list because of her support of hunting. She was told to look for explosives under her car and suspicious parcels or envelopes in the mail. Golding has already found a coffin with a skull on it in her garden, along with an effigy of a dead huntsman and tombstones and anti-hunting banners scattered around.

March 8, 2001 OH: Student protesters demonstrated in front of Bricker Hall at Ohio State University. A group calling itself "Protect Our Earth's Treasures" criticized university funding and support of AIDS-related research that uses cats and methamphetamines to investigate the link between the drug and HIV replication rates.

March 8, 2001 UK: 62-year old disabled Peter Rainbow was fishing alone near Harston, Cambs, when a mob of about 20 balaclava-wearing animal rights protesters terrorized him with shouting, pickaxe handles, baseball bats, drums and bullhorns. The intimidation continued until Rainbow called the police.

March 5, 2001 Long Island, NY: At least eight 10X10 plate glass windows and one neon sign were smashed at the Old Navy Outlet Center in Huntington. ELF claimed credit for the attack, which was aimed at the owners, the Fisher family, for their involvement in and support of the timber industry.

March 5, 2001 OH: On Sunday night/Monday morning, anti-research activists coated four sides of Ohio State University's Bricker Hall and University President William Kirwan's home with red letter protest graffiti. They also glued locks shut at Bricker Hall, which houses the university's administrative offices. Protests were aimed at AIDS-related research that used cats.

March 2, 2001 UK: On the heels of Huntingdon Life Sciences Managing Director Brian Cass' beating by hooded activist thugs, the British Parliament approved legislation to allow company directors threatened with violence to keep their home addresses secret.

March 2, 2001 OR: A communique from ELF claims that units 6 and 8 of the Judie Timber Sale in the Umpqua National Forest has been spiked with 60-penny nails and 8- and 10-inch spikes placed high and low. Survey stakes were pulled and destroyed. The Seneca Jones Corporation purchased the timber on the US Forest Service Sale.

March 2, 2001 NY: Two Schaller and Weber Meat Packing Plant trucks were burned by incendiary devices planted underneath them in an early morning raid by ALF activists.

February 27, 2001 CT: Connecticut State University bans circus animal acts at O'neill Center after protests by student animal rights activists.

February 27, 2001 AR: Animal rights activists from around the world staged a "sit-in" to shut down web site services of Stephen, Inc. of Little Rock, Arkansas. Stephens was targeted as the biggest shareholder and chief financier of Huntingdon Life Sciences. An anonymous group calling itself the Animal Liberation-Tactical Internet Response Network unleashed a "floodnet" program, used world wide by more than a thousand activists' computers, which slowed down and clogged Stephens' system.

February 26, 2001 Galt, CA: Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey settled a lawsuit filed by an animal rights group by agreeing to turn over some retired elephants to the group and pay for their care. The amount of money and number of elephants were not disclosed in the settlement agreement.

February 26, 2001 UK: Animal rights activists target homes and property of Countryside Alliance members who have registered for a march in London next month. The Surrey Anti-Hunt Campaign internet site urges making the most of the absence of owners who may join the march.

February 26, 2001 UK: In the wake of the foot and mouth disease disaster, in which at least 7,000 UK cattle and sheep have already been scheduled for destruction to prevent spreading, BBC 2's Newsnight reported that it had been told by high-level sources at the Ministry of Agriculture that its search for the source of the outbreak was considering the possibility that animal rights activists might have deliberately brought the virus into the UK.

February 24, 2001 Nantes, France: About 10,000 hunters in Nantes protested passage of a law restricting hunting practices in France, while hundreds of hunters blocked roads for nearly two miles in a protest north of Bordeaux. At issue is the exclusion of hunters from the lawmaking process by Green party member and Environment Minister Dominique Voynet, and the new law, which restricts hunting seasons.

February 24, 2001 UK: Glynn Harding, a 26-year old man and one of three arrested last Saturday for sending letter bombs to agricultural interests, was charged with 15 counts of sending explosive devices from Dec. 15, 2000, through February 21, 2001. The other two arrested individuals were released without charge.

February 24, 2001 UK: Ben Gunn, Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire, reported that he had obtained an additional 1 million pounds from the Government to offset the 1.8 million pound cost of additional work caused by activist assaults on Huntingdon Life Sciences.

February 23, 2001 VA: Virginia enacted legislation making malicious damage or destruction of any farm product grown for testing or research for product development at private research facilities or universities or federal, state or local governmental agencies a Class 1 misdemeanor or Class 6 felony, depending on the value of the product. Courts in determining the market value of the damaged or destroyed products are to consider the cost of production, research, testing, replacement, and product development directly related to the product damaged or destroyed.

February 23, 2001 Washington, DC: Research by the Guest Choice Network turns up allegations that the communications director for the Animal Farm Reform Movement has been sending letters to the editor to daily newspapers across the country under different names. The latest was a warning opinion piece about mad cow disease, appearing word for word in at least 11 dailies.

February 23, 2001 CO: The Rocky Mountain Animal Defense threatens to sue over the extermination of 300 prairie dogs near core buildings at the 670-acre Denver Federal Center, which houses 25 federal agencies. February 20, 2001 CA: In an early morning raid, ELF arsonists broke into a warehouse, set incendiary devices and torched a research cotton gin at Delta & Pine Land Co. in Visalia. Damages were estimated at $700,000.

February 23, 2001 UK:
In a major public escalation of animal rights terrorist violence, the managing director of Huntingdon Life Sciences was attacked as he arrived home by three masked goons wielding baseball bats or ax handles. Brian Cass, 53, bludgeoned with head and body wounds and bruises, including a 3-inch scalp gash, was saved from further injury by his girl friend's screams and the aid of two passersby. One of the Good Samaritans chased the attackers, but was debilitated by CS gas from one of the attackers. Cass, stitched up and back at work the next day, vowed to continue the work of HLS, which includes government mandated tests seeking cures for dementia, diabetes, AIDS, asthma and other diseases. In reaction to the attack, Ronnie Lee, ALF founder who is no longer with the group, condoned the attack and expressed surprise that it didn't happen more often, declaring that Cass got off "lightly." Other animal rights groups publicly backed off condoning the act, but expressed "understanding" of how it could occur. In calendar year 2000, 11 Huntingdon employees' cars were firebombed.

February 21, 2001 UK:
Two men ages 26 and 36, and one 31 year-old woman were arrested in connection with letter bombing attacks against at least eleven agricultural businesses. Since December 10, 2000, three bombs were intercepted, but 5 of 10 others exploded, causing serious eye and facial injury to two adults, and leg wounds to a 6-year old daughter of one of the intended victims. Authorities considered all of the bombs potentially lethal. The businesses included pet supply, pest control, farming, agricultural supply, and a livestock auction agency.

September 5, 2000 UK:
After the recent rash of car firebombings outside the personal residences of employees at the beleaguered Huntingdon Life Sciences research facility employees have been told to register their cars at the company address, rather than their homes. One researcher, speaking out on the pressure, indicated that she is now on medication and having firebombing nightmares and struggling to put in 1 ½ workdays a week. She has been harassed going to and coming from work, firebombed at home with damages of 5,000 pounds, and assailed even on her new mobile phone number.
September 2, 2000 WA:
A Seattle woman who demonstrated in opposition to the Makah whale hunt by racing her personal watercraft too close to a Makah Indian Canoe was ordered to perform 120 hours of community service and to stay away from the Makah Indian reservation. Erin Abbott, age 24, sustained a broken shoulder in the incident when a Coast Guard 21-foot inflatable boat collided with her. Abbott's attorney has announced an intent to sue the Coast Guard over the matter.

September 2, 2000 Italy:
PETA activists dumped manure outside the venue for the fashion week catwalk shows in Milan. Torrential rains happened to beat clean-up service personnel to the punch, washing away the entire mess shortly after the incident.

September 2, 2000 UK:
Animal rights protestors rampaged through Surrey and Burstow Fox Hound Kennels at Felbridge, Surrey, hurling bricks and stones and spraying CS gas. One police officer needed hospital treatment after the raid. Animal rights spokesperson Dawn Preston said the incident had been provoked the day before, when a hunt saboteur had been "deliberately run-over" at Horsted Keynes.

August 30, 2000 Wellington, CO:
ALF activists ripped wire from two bird coops, broke a lock on a rat cage and drilled through a corrugated metal wall before tripping a motion sensor alarm and fleeing from Genesis Laboratories. Activists claimed that the predawn raid scattered 168 bobwhites and 11 ducks, all of which were native wildlife from eastern Colorado and Wyoming and which were undergoing animal experimentation. Genesis Labs corrected the information by explaining that the birds were quail and mallards, most of which had been bred in captivity. The ducks had clipped wings, could not fly and did not return, so were assumed eaten by other wildlife in the area. Some quail were found dead at the coop, apparently killed from stress and mishandling during the raid. Some of the quail were to be used in an EPA study to determine whether poisons used to kill rodents would harm birds, and others were simply aviary residents. The raid caused about $500 in physical damage, inestimable costs for bird losses, and resulted in the hiring of armed security to protect the property.

August 28, 2000 UK:
"Urban terrorists" are blamed for planting fire bombs under cars outside the homes of Huntingdon Life Sciences workers. Five of six went off, destroying two cars and badly damaging three others. No people were injured, but one family had to be rescued from their home through a back door and a 7-month pregnant woman had to be treated for shock. Since becoming a target for animal rights protests, the cost for Cambridgeshire police involvement alone in the Huntingdon Labs controversy has run up to one million pounds.

August 23, 2000 Washington, DC:
McDonald's Corp., which has long been targeted by animal rights protests, adverse publicity campaigns and the bombing and vandalizing of its franchise establishments world wide by animal rights forces, announced recently that they have adopted new standards for the treatment of animals by their suppliers. These standards were the work of their own panel of scientific advisers and are to be "a natural evolution from our animal welfare program," according to Robert Langert, senior director of public and community affairs for McDonalds. Langert asserted that "This is our pathway to be a leader on this issue." (See related news item dated June 27, 2000.)

August 15, 2000 Los Angeles, CA:
25 protesters were arrested after banging on the windows of Edward Borovay Furs during the second day of the Democratic National Convention.

August 12, 2000 Los Angeles, CA:
An activist dressed in a pink pig costume dumped four tons of animal manure in front of a hotel housing Democratic National Convention guests. The activist was arrested and the truck impounded.

August 6, 2000 Holland:
An ALF communiqué claimed responsibility for the torching of two storage buildings and the subsequent release of mink from a mink farm in Barchem. The farm had been "visited" by ALF twice previously, with the claimed release of more than 10,000 mink.

July 31, 2000 Dusty, WA:
Anti-biotech activists used machetes and scythes to destroy five acres of genetically engineered canola at Monsanto facilities.

July 31, 2000 Norfolk, VA:
Reports from Richmond, Virginia indicate that PETA took in 2,103 companion animals last year, found homes for 386, and euthanized 1,325.

July 27, 2000 Minneapolis, MN:
Preliminary estimates for security at the International Society for Animal Genetics conference indicate that it was the most expensive police action in state history, approaching $1 million. According to the Hennepin County Sheriff's department, riot gear, preparations, food, logistics, trooper availability, buses and drivers and additional deputy availability tallied more than $770 thousand, with figures yet to be determined for overtime for about 100 deputies; overtime for between 400 and 500 officers; and costs for sending 50 officers to Minneapolis.

July 27, 2000 New Orleans:
"Survivor" producer Mark Burnett obtained a restraining order against an irate viewer who sent a threatening message to him after viewing the episode that included survivors eating rats. According to court papers, the message read: "Thankfully, there are people out there who have no qualms about (vengeance) against those who profit and glorify from the deaths of animals." The order prohibits following, contacting, or distributing information about how to contact Burnett.

July 22, 2000 Milo, ME:
Activists destroyed 1500-2000 genetically engineered trees at MEAD Corporation facilities.

July 21, 200 Anchorage, AK:
The Sierra Club, Greenpeace USA, and the American Oceans Campaign won a federal US District Court ruling in Seattle that bans trawling for pollock, cod and other fish in Alaska waters. The ban, citing a "reasonably certain threat of imminent harm" to Stellar sea lions, covers waters deemed to be critical habitat for the animals. Estimates of losses by the fishing industry if the ban affects the last half of this year and the first half of next year amount to more than $275 million.

July 20, 2000 Rheinlander, WI:
ELF claimed credit for a July 19, 2000 attack defacing US Forest Service trucks and destroying 500 research pine and broadleaf trees and saplings. A guard at the North Central Research Station Forest Biotechnology Laboratory in Rheinlander, Wisconsin discovered the vandalism in progress and prevented further damage.

July 15, 2000 Ann Arbor, MI:
Activists cut through fencing and locks at the Humane Society of Huron Valley over the weekend and removed a dog on death row. The animal had been the subject of court battles for two years after biting a newspaper carrier delivering a paper to the home of the owner. The dog was held at a shelter until it attacked another dog and an evaluator, after which it was transferred to Huron Valley.

July 20, 2000 Cold Spring Harbor, NY:
Activists destroyed a research cornfield, leaving graffiti denouncing genetic engineering. The field was where Dr. Barbara McClintock's studies of Indian corn genetics in the 1940's led to a Nobel prize for her work. The corn plants that were destroyed also happened to be the result of natural plant breeding.

July 11, 2000 Copenhagen, Denmark:
Activists released 1800 mink from a farm north of Copenhagen in a night raid. 1700 were recovered. This farm was also attacked in the spring of 1998. July 11, 2000, Washington, DC The Performing Animal Welfare Society, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Fund for Animals and the Animal Welfare Institute pooled their resources to file suit against Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, charging Ringling Brothers and its parent company with violating the Endangered Species Act and other animal protection laws.

July 10, 2000 Surrey, UK:
A rabbit farmer of 22 years handed over 600 of his 1000 rabbits to animal rights activists for placement, with the remainder to be given up next week. Activists targeted the farm as a lab animal production facility and forced the concession by laying siege to the farmer's home for 12 days, smashing windows and threatening his staff and family.

July 9, 2000 Long Island, NY:
ALF activists claimed credit for smashing 20 large plate glass windows in the early morning hours at Macy's in Garden City, and painting anti-fur slogans on the side of the building.

July 10, 2000 Corpus Christi, TX:
Three men were arrested from a crowd of approximately 70 protesting a proposed dolphin exhibit at the Texas State Aquarium. Construction of the 400,000 gallon habitat exhibit is awaiting the raising of $1.5 million in funds. One protester, lashed to one of two 15-foot steel tripods that were placed in a roadway, was detained and found to be carrying what police described as crack cocaine. Another was arrested for disorderly conduct and a third was arrested for inciting a riot.

July 3, 2000 Austria:
The ALF is credited with an early morning fire that destroyed two generators, a tractor and a part of a circus tent and a truck belonging to the Circus Knie, an Austrian National Circus.

July 2, 2000 North Vernon, IN:
A fire destroyed a truck and caused an estimated $100,000 damage at the Rose Acre chicken farm. At the feed mill, the words "Polluter, animal exploiter, your turn to pay" were spray-painted on a concrete wall, along with the letters "ALF." The incident also disrupted the feeding routine at the 1.8 million chicken ranch.

June 29, 2000 Bloomington, IN:
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed credit for spiking trees in two counties in southern Indiana. "Hundreds" of spikes were claimed to have been set both high and low in trees on timber sales that were prepared for cutting. Officials have found about 20 such spikes to date.

June 27, 2000 Chicago, IL:
PETA bargained with McDonald's, offering to abandon its "Unhappy Meal" campaign against the chain if McDonald's would agree to stop buying eggs and pork from US suppliers who confine animals in cages or stalls considered by PETA to be too small. PETA also sought McDonald's non-buying agreements from producers who remove beaks from hens to prevent pecking injuries. The "Unhappy Meals" are mock-ups of McDonald's children's hamburger meal box, but with Ronald McDonald brandishing .a bloody knife on the side of the box, and toy animals with missing heads and limbs found inside. PETA said it would call for regular demonstrations around the world and would pass out Unhappy Meals in Great Britain. (See related news item dated August 23, 2000.)

June 24, 2000 Honolulu, HI:
A federal court order protecting endangered and threatened sea turtles called for 100% of longline ships to have a federal observer on board on every fishing trip within 30 days or face suspension until compliance is achieved. The National Marine Fisheries Service has two trained observers stationed in Honolulu, and the longline fishery includes 115 boats and 600 crew members. The order was written to remain in effect until the NMFS completes an environmental impact statement on how the fishery affects sea turtle populations. NMFS was given until April 1, 2001 to complete the task.

June 24, 2000 Eugene, Oregon:
Anarchists with past actions linked to timber sale disruption and rain forest demonstrations were indicted on arson charges for allegedly trying to set fire to a 12,000 gallon gasoline tanker truck. On May 27, a driver for Tyree Oil found a section of cloth stuck in the fuel tank of his double-trailer fuel truck. The cloth was draped over a gallon milk jug filled with fuel and soap. Two devices were set, but crude ignition delay mechanisms failed to ignite the jugs. Jeffrey Michael Luers, 21, and Craig Andrew Marshall, 27 were arrested for this incident while being investigated for (and subsequently charged with) another arson that had caused $40,000 damage at a car dealership.

June 19, 2000 UK:
Animal rights activists have been sending death threats to scientists conducting "badger culling trials," experiments designed as part of a five-year trial to establish if there is a link between badgers and TB in cattle. The harassment has been going on for two years, but the increased gravity of threats warranted increased police protection. A spokesman for scientists noted the irony that the trials might lead to fewer badgers being killed, as there is no clear evidence that badgers are to blame for bovine TB to date.

June 16, 2000 Paris, France:
Brigitte Bardot was found guilty of inciting "hatred or racial violence" by a French court and fined $3,000. Her offense consisted of including criticizism in her book of a Muslim festival in which sheep are slaughtered.

June 15, 2000 Lyndeborough, NH:
Activists tore down a fence and released approximately 500 mink from Richard Gauthier's farm. He recovered about 200 by the afternoon of the incident, but many were nursing mothers that required matching back up with their offspring. About 100 litters remained without mothers. Gauthier's farm was vandalized in 1998 and he has received a threatening letter filled with razor blades.

June 14, 2000 Sacramento, CA:
Activists have filed a million-dollar civil rights violation lawsuit against the University of California, the chief of a primate research lab, the UC Davis chancellor and police. The suit alleges beating and falsely arresting animal rights demonstrators, and is the second such suit in two years to be lodged against UC. The plaintiffs were arrested on June 12, 1999 at a primate lab protest and all had their charges dismissed. They have charged violations of US and California civil rights laws, false arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and excessive force.

May 22, 2000 Washington, DC:
US Fish & Wildlife Service records dating from October 1997 through January 1998 were ordered destroyed, according to a USF&W employee. The 8-year employee, Bonnie Kline, testified at House Resources Subcommittee hearings that she was instructed to destroy the computer files, which apparently contained information on spending that was sought by the House Resources Subcommittee. She refused the order. She then lost her security clearance, the combination to her safe was changed, and she now says the files are missing. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the disappearing files.

May 21, 2000 UK:
A meat processing plant in Oxfordshire had ten bombs planted, one exploded and nine defused by bomb disposal officers. No injuries occurred in the attack, no one claimed responsibility for it. It was the second incident in as many hours as Regal Rabbits was attacked, with a 7-rabbit release by ALF in Great Bookham, Surrey.

May 18, 2000 Philadelphia, PA:
An animal rights group based in Helsinki, Finland, is reported as attempting to dismantle barriers against US import of human body parts - to enable the sale stateside of PetCloaks fashions. These articles are reported to be animal clothing created from the skins of cadavers in the Far East and distributed by "Animal Mights," a fringe group in Helsinki. Spokesperson Maija Kiiski maintains that "turnabout is fair play."

May 16, 2000 UK:
After picketing at least two homes earlier in the month, arsonists attacked the animal testing staff of Huntingdon Life Sciences research laboratory. Cars belonging to four members of the animal lab's staff were set on fire; two of the fires spread to houses where children were sleeping. No one was injured. The fires were set simultaneously, apparently to make local fire suppression response more difficult.

May 16, 2000 Burlington, WA:
ALF burglars steal more than 200 chickens from an egg farm. Activists cut wire on about 60 cages and took approximately $1,500 worth of chickens.

May 9, 2000 Kauai, Hawaii:
Hawaiian "elves" destroyed corn crop research at the Novartis center on Kauai. A group calling themselves the "Menehune" claimed credit for the raid, which described complete destruction of one test plot and enough pollen mixing throughout other test plots to invalidate the experiments.

May 1, 2000 UK:
May Day demonstrators rampaging through central London hurled bricks and bottles at police, smashed store and car windows, and trashed a McDonald's restaurant, breaking windows, tearing down the large "M" sign and distributing food. Three police officers and nine civilians were hospitalized and nine other policemen suffered minor injuries. 42 were arrested.

May, 2000 UK/NY:
Huntingdon Life Sciences pressure tactics against stockholders are proposed for US colleagues at a New York annual meeting of Huntingdon Life Sciences.

April 26, 2000 UK:
The Association of the British Pharmaceuticals Industry warned that Britain's drug companies could be forced to shift their research activities abroad to avoid an outbreak of terrorist attacks by animal rights groups. Association president Bill Fullagar noted the recent rise in biophobia and animal extremism, stating, "It cannot fail to have an effect on considerations about how and where we do research." See May 16, 2000 for related information.

April 25, 2000 UK:
AMP news reports that blackmail charges were filed against the leader of a group that had targeted stockholders of Huntingdon Life Sciences. Niels Hansen was questioned regarding 1,700 counts of alleged blackmail, which corresponded to the number of letters sent to stockholders warning of protests outside their homes unless they sold their stock in the company. See May 16, 2000 for related information.

April 24, 2000 San Diego, CA:
17 windows were broken at Neiman Marcus department store, ALF graffiti reported to have been apparent at the scene.

April 19, 2000 Dinan, France:
A bomb explosion at a McDonald's restaurant killed an employee - a 28-year old relative of the owner. The bomb shattered windows and blew off a part of the restaurant's roof. No one has stepped up to claim credit for the bombing, but the Breton Revolutionary Army, which is seeking greater autonomy for Brittany's Breton-speaking population, is at least one suspect group. However, the mayor of Dinan, Rene Benoit, said that Dinan "is a very calm town. It has no link to the Breton independence movement, which some people say is linked to the attack."

April 8, 2000 Salt Lake City, UT:
ALF graffiti was left at a burglarized leather shop, at a Burger King and two Arby's restaurants. Vandals smashed windows, scattered glass and spray-painted the buildings.

April 7, 2000 Sonoma County, CA:
An anti-biotech group calling itself the "Petaluma Pruners" destroyed grape plant root stock grown by the biotechnology corporation Vinifera.

April 1, 2000 University of Minnesota:
A group calling itself the "Genetic Jokers" trashed 6 vehicles belonging to the US Forest Service, sprayed graffiti, jammed locks and coated windows with etching cream at the offices of the USFS North Central Forest Experiment Station research building.

April, 2000 San Diego, CA:
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine puts up a billboard in opposition to the March of Dimes.

March 29, 2000 British Columbia:
A group calling itself the "Ministry of Forest Defense" destroyed 1,600 test trees at a provincial seed orchard.

March 28, 2000 UK:
A radical animal rights organization threatens doorstep protests against stockholders of Huntingdon Life Sciences unless they sell their holdings. Share prices fell heavily on the London Exchange immediately after the threat. See April 25, 2000 report for further action on this item.

March 27, 2000 Boston, Mass:
Four protesters were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct outside the nation's largest biotechnology conference.

March 25, 2000 Minnesota:
ELF claimed credit for sabotaging construction equipment and materials being used in a highway rerouting that was claimed to endanger water resources. They smashed parts, cut hoses and dumped dirt and sand into the gas tanks and oil tubes of four vehicles, and destroyed a half mile of survey stakes.

March 25, 2000 Chandler, AZ:
Revlon manager Richard D. Simer's finger was blown off and his legs and chest were peppered with shrapnel when he opened a package bomb addressed to him and delivered to his driveway. No suspects have been named and no person or group has claimed credit for the bombing.

March 17, 2000 San Francisco Bay Area:
The College of Notre Dame in Belmont, CA, experienced the unplanned end of a 72-year old research project when thieves broke into a university professor's animal trailer and stole all 250 test mice from their cages. Biology professor Elizabeth Center's work with the mice utilized generational observations of colony development that started in 1928 in seeking causes of genetic birth defects and osteoporosis. No animal rights groups have claimed credit for the rodent theft.

March 13, 2000 Viroqua, Wisconsin:
ALF claimed responsibility for attempting to torch a former mink feed supply house. The warehouse once served as Kickapoo Fur Foods, but now houses gourmet dog food. The incendiary devices failed to ignite and caused minimal damage.

March 10, 2000 New York:
Chrissy Hynde, lead singer of The Pretenders, along with PETA president Ingrid Newkirk, Paul Haje and Paul Chetirkin were charged with criminal mischief and trespassing after they tore leather and suede garments inside a display window at a Gap store in midtown Manhattan.

March 3, 2000 Holland:
ALF releases 2-3,000 mink in conjunction with raid noted above on February 27, 2000/

March, 2000 UK:
In the first week of March, 2000, while the head of a lab monkey production center slept in her home, along with her husband and 12-year old son, arsonists broke into their garage and torched their two cars. The woman, a former veterinarian, has been the subject of continuing attacks. Last year 25 men and women hid behind balaclavas and used bricks to smash the front and side windows of her house and the family cars. She has driven into her remote-controlled entry garage to find four thugs waiting with sledge hammers to smash the front, side and back windows of her car while she was trapped inside. A hearse was sent to her house after a local undertaker had been told that she was dead. The staff at her place of employment has received threatening letters with razors inside, and they have also had similar visits at their homes from terrorists. Local authorities are investigating the current incident as an arson, seeking ALF suspects.

February 27, 2000 San Francisco Bay Area:
An ALF tag was left on the building after smashing 29 windows at Neiman Marcus causing $100,000 in damages. Two activists attending a fur protest at the same location the following day were arrested and charged with trespassing and felony vandalism in connection with the damage. ALF's Bay area damage claims from December 20, 1999 through this incident amount to an estimated $500,000.

February 27, 2000 Holland:
ALF claimed credit for releasing two to three thousand mink in combination with a raid on March 3, 2000, at mink farms in the villages of Putten and Barchem. The release was timed to preempt the breeding season. The group also took breeding cards and destroyed them off site and left ALF graffiti and the reminder "While you sleep, ALF destroys your world."

February 25, 2000 San Francisco Bay Area:
ALF used incendiary devices to burn down four trucks at B&K Universal in Fremont.

February 15, 2000 Vancouver, BC:
A group calling itself "The Lorax" claimed credit for inserting 5- and 10-inch spikes into hundreds of trees in the Elaho Valley, about 3 hours north of Vancouver, BC. Reasons for the action were claimed as tree cutting prevention and preservation of grizzly bear habitat.

February 9, 2000 University of Minnesota:
ELF claimed credit for overturning 800 genetically engineered oat plants that were the subject of a disease resistance experiment. They also sabotaged construction vehicles and sifted salt into concrete destined for a controversial highway project in Minneapolis.

February 6, 2000 Bellingham, WA:
Psychology labs in Miller hall at Western Washington University were spray painted. Suspects were the same ALF activists who released rats and rabbits in October, 1999.

January 29, 2000 Monroe, WA:
Activists broke in and released 60 mink from Brainard's Fur Farm in Monroe, Washington.

February 23, 2000 San Francisco Bay Area:
The Sonoma County Farm Bureau announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of ALF-claimed raids in the Bay area. Later, on March 16, 2000, the Farm Bureau's office was broken into, trashed, files strewn, desk contents scattered, but nothing of value was taken. No one yet has claimed responsibility for the vandalism.

January 24, 2000 Bloomington, IN:
ELF claimed credit for torching a house in a development that was criticized as endangering the water supply for the Bloomington area. The $200,000 in damage destroyed the start of a $700,000 finished product.

January 23, 2000 San Francisco Bay Area:
ALF attempted arson by inserting flammable material through the mail slot at Primate Products in Redwood City.

January 20, 2000 Long Island, NY:
ALF launched multiple attacks on 7 fur stores across Nassau and Suffolk counties in early morning hours. Damage included broken windows, damaged vehicles, locks glued shut, graffiti, lighting destruction, billboard damage and utility vandalism.

January 16, 2000 Plymouth, Wisconsin:
Two vanloads of masked terrorists descended on the farm of Gene Meyer and proceeded to harass and terrorize him. His neighbor copied down the visitors' license plate numbers and called the police, who then found the vans and the occupants and arrested 14 suspects, ranging in age from 17 to 26. Meyer's farm had been the target of a mink raid on August 9, 1999, when 3,000 animals were released. On that date also, the United Feed mill, just 10 minutes away, was torched, causing $1.2 million in damage. Both actions were claimed for credit by the ALF. Among those charged with disorderly conduct while masked were Kim Berardi, 22, director of the Animal Defense League of Chicago; and Matthew Bullard, 25, of the Student Organization for Animal Rights in Minnesota.

January 15, 2000 San Francisco Bay Area:
ALF planted five incendiary devices in offices and trucks at Petaluma Farms. All ignited. Two trucks were destroyed.

January 11, 2000 San Francisco Bay Area:
The "Reclaim the Seeds" group broke into the Western Regional Research Center of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service at the U of Cal's Plant Gene Expression Center in Albany, CA. Their communique claimed to have destroyed over half the crop and to have "ruined the experiment."

January 10, 2000 Stanwood, WA:
ALF was credited for a raid on the R&R Research and Rabbitry facility in Stanwood, which took 23 rabbits.

January 3, 2000 San Francisco Bay Area:
ALF planted five incendiary devices in offices, storage facilities and trucks at Rancho Veal Corp. in Petaluma. Rancho Veal was hit in 1997 by ALF, too. The current arson created $250,000 in damages.

January 3, 2000 UK:
In a second mink raid on Crowhill Farm in Ringwood in less than 18 months, ALF released 300 of the 1,400 animals at the facility. The prior raid released up to 3,000 into the surrounding countryside.

January 1, 2000 Belgium:
ALF attacked a store of the Belgian fur company Pelsland by pouring benzine through a ventilation duct and lighting it. The fire went out for lack of oxygen without damaging the building severely. An ALF spray-painted tag was left at the scene.

December 31, 1999 Michigan State University:
ELF claimed responsibility for torching the Agriculture Hall, destroying property and years of research on genetically engineered crops. Damages have been estimated at more than $1 million. Catherine Ives, a target in the raid, lost academic records, lecture notes, slide presentations, books, and her passport in the fire, describing it as seeing her entire career go up in smoke. Her $18 million program was targeted by ELF for accepting funding from Monsanto. Ives acknowledged that Monsanto once did contribute $2,000 to her program to train African farmers in modern agricultural methods.

December 25, 1999 Monmouth, Oregon:
Forest industry Boise Cascade's regional headquarters were destroyed in a fire. Credit claimed by Earth Liberation Front (ELF). Damages were estimated at $1 million.

December 20, 1999 San Francisco Bay Area:
ALF attempted major destruction but failed in an arson attempt at Fulton Poultry Processors. One of four incendiary devices went off, causing minor damage.

November 20, 1999 Washington State University:
ALF raid on poultry research facility, destruction and trashing in several labs and offices.

October 26, 1999 UK:
Graham Hall, award-winning TV filmmaker was tortured by animal rights extremists in a sadistic revenge ritual. Earlier this year Hall won the highest award British TV can bestow for his expose on the fanatics behind the Animal Liberation Front. Eleven months following airing of his expose he was kidnapped at gun point, blindfolded and driven to an unidentified house where he was bound and told he would be killed. After several hours his assailants surrounded him, forced his head between his legs and burned ALF into his bare back in 4" high letters using a branding iron. According to Hall, as they ended their branding ritual one of them made a comment about justice being done and another chuckled something about the justice department, which is the name given to the part of ALF that takes credit for criminal actions against people, as opposed to property. Before the ordeal ended animal extremists threatened to harm Hall's family, to torch his house and to kill him if he went to the police. Hall's back is permanently mutilated from the branding. Surveillance equipment picked up an intruder attempting to climb into his yard carrying something that looked like a pickaxe handle. Once spotted, the intruder quickly retreated.

While denying any knowledge of the attack, Robin Webb, ALF's official spokesperson issued a chilling warning to Hall and any others who might try to get in the way of the Animal Liberation Front's crusade saying, "people who make a living in this way have to expect from time to time to take the consequences of their actions."

October 25, 1999 USA:
Following a communique by an animal rights group calling itself the Justice Department warning that it mailed over eighty razor blade,booby-trapped packages to primate research scientists, seven such envelopes were received by primate research facilities in various parts of the country.In September similar envelopes with razor blades, some dipped in rat poison,were mailed to fur farmers.

October 24, 1999 Bellingham, WA:
Animal rightists broke into Western Washington University stealing several laboratory animals.Campus police said that the vandalismassociated with the break in points to the Animal LiberationFront.October 22,1999 Warwick, Rhode Island:In the early morning hours a fur store's delivery van was destroyed by fire.Local police believe the fire was set by a radical animal-rights group.The Animal Liberation Front's acronym "ALF" was spray painted on the building along with slogans against killing animals.

October 24, 1999 Western Washington University:
ALF raid, 37 rats and 4 rabbits released.

October 16, 1999 Nassau, Long Island, NY:
The Animal Liberation Front attacked four McDonalds outlets in Nassau, Long Island, NY. Total damage costs from the broken windows and spray paint exceeded $23,000.

September 4, 1999 USA:
The Justice Department, an animal rights terrorism organization, claimed responsibility for booby-trapped razor blade packages sent through the mail to dozens of mink farmers, fur farm suppliers, and fur industry officials. The Frontline Information Service of the Animal Liberation Front reported that the envelopes included the following message: "You have been targetted (sic). You have until autumn of ther (sic) year 2000 to release all of your animal captives and get out of the bloody fur trade. If you do not heed our warning your violence will be turned back upon you." Some of the razor blades had been dipped in rat poison.

August, 1999 USA:
Biotech crop killers calling themselves the "Seeds of Resistance" hacked down a half-acre plot of experimental corn at the University of Maine-owned Rogers Farm. Plant gene-splicing in this experiment was aimed at reducing the need for herbicide use.

August 29, 1999 Orange, California:
The Animal Liberation Front stole 46 dogs from Bio-Devices Inc., a research facility. ALF spray-painted "Vivisection is Fraud" and "Animal Liberation" on the walls.

August 28, 1999 West Islip, Long Island, New York:
The Animal Liberation Front took credit for stealing a stump-tailed macaque from a pet store on August 27.

August 23, 1999 Westboro, Massachusetts:
Eight animal-rights activists face charges they threatened to kill a man they believed was an animal researcher, police said. The suspects, some dressed in military fatigues and wearing black bandannas over their faces, allegedly confronted the man at his Northboro home late Saturday night and yelled, "Animals live and he's going to die." Police said the suspects damaged the man's mailbox and threw a rock through the car window of someone who was visiting him. No one was injured.

August 14, 1999 Salisbury, Maryland:
Vandals broke into Frank Parson's Mink Ranch at about 5 a.m. and released about 20 animals.

August 12, 1999 Antwerp, Belgium:
A McDonald's fast food restaurant was burnt to the ground today, and police believe the fire was the work of a militant animal rights group that has claimed responsibility for similar attacks in the past. The letters "ALF" were painted at the scene.

August 11, 1999 USA:
Farmers from several US states received dangerous mail today. The envelope size varied from standard size 10 business envelopes in gray to 9x11 or business-size envelopes in white or manila. Inside were 3x5 inch index cards with razor blades attached with a written threat to get out of the fur trade and a drawing of a bomb. All were postmarked in New York.

August 9, 1999 Plymouth, Wisconsin:
During the early morning hours, United Feeds' mill in Plymouth, Wisconsin was burned to the ground. The Animal Liberation Front claimed credit for the $1.5 million blaze in a report that said they "strategically placed four incendiary devices in the mill."

August 9, 1999 Plymouth, Wisconsin:
Between 2-3 a.m., vandals released 3000 mink from Gene Myer's Fur Farm. A neighbor videotaped a low-flying aircraft without numbers in the area the previous evening.

August 9, 1999 Orkelljunga, Sweden:
Five Beagles were stolen from a facility that breeds dogs for research.

August 7, 1999 Escanaba, Michigan:
The Earth Liberation Front claimed credit for torching two fishing boats in the driveway of a veterinarian at 3:20 a.m. Neighbors spotted the flames and awoke the doctor. ELF left behind its signature in 18-inch letters on the garage door. Police and federal law enforcement agencies are investigating.

August 3, 1999 Bristol, Wisconsin:
Animal rights terrorists released more than 3000 mink from the Krieger Farm before dawn. Neighbors helped the Kriegers retrieve most of the animals. In claiming credit for the raid, ALF said that the Kriegers are "a known supplier of mink fur to Neiman Marcus, the well-known national chain currently under attack by animal activists across the US for its fur sales."

July 10, 1999 USA:
Jersey Cuts, a meatpacking facility in Howell, New Jersey has closed. They had been struck twice by the Animal Liberation Front, the second attack being a firebombing that completely destroyed three trucks at a cost of $180,000.

June 25, 1999 USA:
The Animal Liberation Front takes responsibility for the firebombing of a truck at Worldwide Primates, Inc. in Miami, Florida, the business of a primate dealer and his family. The action was claimed to be "in support of the 1999 Primate Freedom Tour."

June 10, 1999 England:
Animal rights activists chained a 62-year-old woman to a fence and demanded that she and her husband close their farm, Britain's only licensed cattery supplying cats for research. She was terrorized but unhurt; she managed to free herself after a few minutes.

May 9, 1999 USA:
ALF claimed responsibility for the Mother's Day arson at Childer's Meat Company in Eugene, Oregon "In honor of Mother Earth and all the cows who have their babies stolen from them to help furnish the meat and dairy industries." Raiders used 20 gallons of diesel fuel/unleaded gasoline mixture in four buckets to ignite the fire that caused $150,000 damage.

April 24, 1999 USA:
Animal rights protesters broke into three research labs at the University of California at San Francisco, shattering glass, overturning refrigerators, and destroying medical research.

April 5, 1999 USA:
A dozen laboratories at the University of Minnesota were vandalized and dozens of research animals were stolen in a raid by the ALF. Damages estimated at $1,000,000. Research into Alzheimers disease and cancer was destroyed or stolen and cages and equipment were damaged.

March 27, 1999 USA:
Six vehicles belonging to Big Apple Circus were destroyed by firebombs in Franklin, New Jersey. ALF claimed credit.

October 22, 1998 Sweden:
5700 mink released from fur farm near Vaenersborg.

October 18, 1998 USA:
ELF, Earth Liberation Front, claimed responsibility for $12 million Vail Ski Resort fire.

October 6, 1998 Germany:
Fur farm release of 2500 mink ($150,000) near Fladderlohausen.

September 16, 1998 World:
the Internet Division of the Animal Liberation Front announced a cyberspace campaign against people who use the internet to conduct animal-related businesses. ALF threatened denial of service attacks, e-mail bombardments, virus attacks, and web server hacking to destroy data.

August 28, 1998 USA:
ALF and ELF claimed responsibility for release of 2800 mink in Rochester, Minnesota.

August 27, 1998 USA:
Release of 3000 mink at fur farm in Beloit, Wisconsin.

August 20, 1998 USA:
Release of 2500 mink at fur farm in Jewell, Iowa.

August 20, 1998 USA:
Release of 350 domestically raised foxes in Guttenberg, Iowa.

August 18, 1998 USA:
Attack on Pearl Lake, Minnesota fur farm ended with 2500 mink released.

August 9, 1998 UK:
6000 mink released in Hampshire, England; 1000 more released days later. Many died on roads or were killed by fearful residents. Some escape and damage native wildlife population.

July 4, 1998 USA:
Middleton, Wisconsin-based United Vaccines Research Facility was attacked with 150 mink and ferrets released. ALF and ELF claimed responsibility.

June, 1998 USA:
Arson at US Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services facility near Olympia, Washington, destroys $1.5 million research projects and causes $400,000 damage to facility.

May, 1998 USA:
Arson at a veal slaughterhouse in Florida caused $500,000 damage.

November 23, 1997 USA:
Animal rights group that calls itself the justice department sent letters to media warning of poisoned turkeys in supermarkets in the east.

September 12, 1997 USA:
Animal rightists smashed windows and doors with sledgehammer at Boys Town research center and damaged van parked nearby. Boys Town staff received death threats.

July 21, 1997 USA:
Cavel West Horse Slaughter Plant was torched in Redmond, Oregon causing $1,000,000 in damage with blaze threatening nearby propane storage tank. Entire water supply of Redmond was used fighting the fire and residents had to give up using city water. ALF claimed responsibility.

May 30, 1997 USA:
More than 9000 mink were released at Oregon fur farm causing $750,000 damage.

April 19, 1997 USA:
Activists smashed windows and sprayed paint walls of soon-to-open family enterprise, Golden Coral Restaurant in Maryland, causing $65,000 in damage.

March 19, 1997 USA:
A trapping supply store in Ogden, Utah, was torched with the night watchman inside. He confronted the arsonists and they fled.

March 11, 1997 USA:
Five pipe bombs exploded at the Fur Breeders Agricultural Coop in Utah causing nearly $1,000,000 in damage. Bombs were spiked with screws and metal and were ignited using gasoline and a five minute fuse. Federal authorities arrested and convicted Josh Ellerman, a 19-year-old follower of ALF and the Straight Edge movement, which is another offshoot of the animal rights movement.

February 15, 1997 USA: ALF took credit for McDonalds attack in Troy, Michigan.

January 9, 1997 USA: Outdoor Hunter/Outfitter Shop was firebombed. No group takes credit but federal authorities suspect ALF

January 4, 1997 USA:
More than 20 stores and restaurants in Salt Lake City had their windows shot or smashed out. Sabotaged enterprises included McDonalds, Arby's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, a trapping outfitter, a leather shop, milk trucks and others.

Nov 12, 1996 USA:
A firebomb was lobbed through window of Bloomington, Minnesota, fur store causing $2,000,000 damage. Firefighters disputed claims by Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT) that no lives were put at risk.

Nov 1, 1950 two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington in an attempt to assassinate President Truman. One of the pair was killed.

1970: Murder of American University of Beirut President, Malcolm Kerr, in Beirut, Lebanon.

September 1970: TWA #741 and Pan Am #93 hijacked by the PFLP and flown to Amman, Jordan.

March 1973: U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel & DCM George Moore murdered in Khartoum, Sudan.

June 1976: U.S. Ambassador, Francis Meloy and two other Americans killed in Lebanon.

JUNE 13, 1976 The town of Shikka in the north of Lebanon was attacked. Thirty people were massacred. Among them were women, children and elderly. Palestinian responsibility U.S. Ambassador in Lebanon Francis Melloy was assassinated by Palestinian gunmen and the killer was apprehended by Lebanese authorities and jailed. The killer was released by the Lebanese court under pressure by the Palestinians and Syria. The U.S. protested unsuccessfully. Palestinian and Syrian responsibility.

1979 Afghanistan : Communist insurgency in Afghanistan going on for quite a while, mass killings; US ambassador killed ; Taraki is killed and Hafizullah Amin takes the Presidency. ; Amin is executed, and he is replaced with Babrak Karmal. ; Soviet Union (Russia) invade in December.

1979- January 20, 1980: U.S. Embassy in Iran seized, embassy officials held hostage for 14 months.

April 18, 1983 : US Embassy suicide bombing, Beirut, Lebanon. The guy responsible seems to be Imad Mugniyah -- a founder of the Lebanese Islamic militia Hezbollah -- responsible for the deaths of more Americans around the world than anyone else.

October 23, 1983 : Marine Barracks bombing, Beirut, Lebanon

December 3, 1983 : two F-14s flying over Lebanon were fired upon by Syrian antiaircraft artillery.

December 4, 1983, aircraft from Kennedy and Independence were launched against Syrian targets; two were shot down, and one U.S. airman was taken prisoner by Syrian troops.

March 16, 1984 : Hizbullah kidnaps the CIA Station Chief in Beirut, William Buckley, and over a period of months, tortures him.

June 1984: TWA #847 to Athens hijacked to Beirut; U.S. Navy diver, Robert Stethem murdered.

September 20, 1984: U.S. embassy annex in East Beirut bombed; 8 killed, 2 Americans

June 3, 1985 : Kidnapped CIA Chief William Buckley is murdered before William Casey can arrange a rescue. (Part of several attempts to regain US personnel held hostage in the middle east that would lead to the Iran-Contra affair. March 16, 1985 : Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut; he was released in December 1991. October 1985 : Four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists hijack the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, carrying more than 400 passengers and crew, off Egypt. The hijackers demand that Israel free 50 Palestinian prisoners. The terrorists kill a disabled American tourist, 69-year-old Leon Klinghoffer, and throw his body overboard with his wheelchair. After a two-day drama, the hijackers surrender in exchange for a pledge of safe passage. But when an Egyptian jet tries to fly the hijackers to freedom, U.S. Navy F-14 fighters intercept it and force it to land in Sicily. (Ollie North involved) The terrorists are taken into custody by Italian authorities. Counter- terrorist units from the U.S responded, including elements of Delta Force and SEAL Team Six, however the situation was resolved before an assault became necessary.

September 1986: Pan Am #73 hijacked to Karachi, Pakistan; 17 people killed, 150 wounded.

1987 North Korea state-sponsored: terrorism evidently ceased after a KAL airliner was bombed in flight. However, North Korea is believed to maintain contacts with groups that practice terrorism.

1988 : US Secretary of State Schultz's motorcade attacked in Bolivia by FALZW (Zarate Willka Liberation Armed Forces) February 1988: William Higgins kidnaped in Lebanon and murdered.

December 1988: Pan Am #103 bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland; 270 people killed.

1989 : Murder of two Mormon missionaries in Bolivia

1990 : US Marine House in Bolivia attacked by CNPZ (Commission Nestor Paz Zamora) terrorists. The captured terrorist's testimony assisted government prosecutors in deflating attempts to overturn the lengthy sentences for those FALZW members already in prison. The government also moved forward with the trial of the Commission Nestor Paz Zamora (CNPZ) terrorists who attacked the US Marine House in 1990.

1990 ElSayyid A. Nosair assassinates Jewish activist Meir Kahane in New York. Nosair is a follower of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who later is linked to the World Trade Center bombing and a U.N. bomb plot.

1992 and 1993 Mohamed Atef travelled to Somalia on several occasions for the purpose of organizing violence against US and UN troops stationed in Somalia. On each occasion he reported back to Usama Bin Laden at his base in the Riyadh district of Khartoum.

January 8, 1992 : Columbia : There were also six reported cases of international kidnapping. Two kidnap victims, one US and one British citizen, were killed by their captors. The American, naturalized US citizen Jose Lopez, was kidnapped on 8 January by members of the National Liberation Army at his place of work. He was subsequently killed, although his kidnappers withheld this information until after the family had paid ransom.

1992 : Bolivian Government counterterrorist forces captured the current leaders of the Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK), one of Bolivia's indigenous Indian-based terrorist groups, severely affecting the organization. Also apprehended was one of the remaining perpetrators of the Zarate Willka Liberation Armed Forces (FALZW) attacks on Secretary of State Shultz's La Paz motorcade in 1988 and of the murder of two Mormon missionaries in 1989.

1992 : In Bolivia, the National Liberation Army (ELN), thought to contain elements of several Bolivian radical groups, resurfaced and claimed responsibility for several minor bombings of government buildings and power pylons. In Bolivia, two attacks on Mormon churches were claimed by the EGTK.

1992: Chile - While terrorist organizations have steadily lost their popular appeal as Chile solidifies its return to democracy, some old-line leftwing groups remain active and continue to present a limited terrorist threat. There were 39 international terrorist incidents in Chile in 1992, down from 52 in 1991, with the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) and the Latauro Youth Movement (MJL) the groups deemed responsible for these and the vast majority of domestic terrorist attacks. Virtually all of these attacks were minor, resulting almost exclusively in property damages only.

1992 : The Communist-affiliated FPMR generally sought to attack Chilean targets, particularly government buildings and banks, as well as politicians and members of the uniformed national police, the Carabineros. The MJL claimed responsibility for 27 attacks on Mormon churches throughout Chile, as well as bank robberies and extortions of local businesses. Virtually all the attacks on Mormon churches were small-scale bombings that caused minor property damage and no serious physical injuries. Both groups carried out low-level, largely symbolic bombings of foreign interests to protest the Columbus anniversary celebrations in October, including the bombing of the Abraham Lincoln memorial near the US Embassy.

1992 : Colombia There were 68 international terrorist incidents in Colombia in 1992, five more than in 1991. This is the largest number of terrorist incidents in any nation. Even with this large number of incidents, international terrorism was overshadowed by the marked increase in domestic political violence in the latter half of the year. Continued terrorism by the Colombian guerrilla organizations, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the National Liberation Army (ELN), and the umbrella group the Simon Bolivar Guerrilla Coordinator (CGSB) was compounded by narcotraffickers seeking to prevent the recapture of Medellin narcotics kingpin Pablo Escobar, who escaped from prison in July.

1992 : Peru ; Guerrillas of the Maoist Peruvian Communist Party, commonly known as Sendero Luminoso (SL), and the Cuban-style Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) continued to make Peru the most dangerous country in South America in 1992. Peruvians suffered by far the most, with a large number of terrorist attacks of various origins claiming many civilian lives. There were 13 attacks against foreign interests in Peru, chiefly in Lima, down from 59 in 1991. Targets included embassies, banks, and international businesses. SL was responsible for most of the incidents, as the group mounted its most serious threat yet to the government. In well-planned urban campaigns in February, May, and July, Sendero used ''armed strikes`` against public transportation, assassinations, and car bombings to sap public morale and give weight to its claim of having reached a position of strategic equality with the government. In one of its boldest attacks, SL terrorists set off a massive car bomb at the American Ambassador's residence in February. The blast killed three Peruvian policemen and caused extensive damage to the residence. During 1992 two foreign deaths were attributed to SL, an Italian priest killed in August and a Yugoslav engineer in September. These were the first terrorism-related deaths of foreigners in over a year.

March 17, 1992 : a car bomb virtually destroyed the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 29 people and injuring 242. The Islamic Jihad organization, an arm of the Lebanese Hizballah, took responsibility for the attack, claiming it was in retaliation for the Israeli attack that killed Hizballah leader Sheikh Musawi in February. When the authenticity of this claim was questioned, the group responded by releasing a videotape of the Israeli Embassy taken during surveillance before the bombing. The bombing focused attention on Hizballah activity in Latin America, where communities of recent Shiite Muslim emigres in the remote border areas of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay could provide cover for international terrorists.

June 10, 1992 : Panama One of two American fatalities from terrorism in Latin America in 1992 occurred in Panama just before a visit by President Bush in June. On 10 June, Sgt. Owell Hernandez was killed in Panama when the US Army vehicle he was driving was raked by automatic gunfire from a passing car. Anti-US forces associated with the former Noriega regime have attacked US interests and are believed responsible for the fatal shooting, as well as for two other low-level bombings at American military installations in Panama in 1992. Terrorists operate under a variety of names in Panama, and it is likely that the so-called M-20 group that has claimed many of the bombings is actually made up of adherents of various terrorist groups. Although small and lacking widespread popular support, these groups contain a high proportion of trained ex-military personnel. Access to arms and explosives in Panama makes these groups potential threats to US interests.

October 1992 : Peru - A mortar attack on the US Ambassador's residence but there was little damage and no casualties

October 1992 : Columbia : The wave of terrorism began in earnest in October and showed no signs of abating as the year ended. Most disturbing was evidence that the ELN, possibly assisted by narcoterrorists, had developed sufficient urban infrastructure to carry out a sustained terrorist offensive in Bogota. In addition to the largely symbolic foreign targets attacked during the Columbus anniversary in October, there were nearly 50 attacks on the oil pipeline jointly owned by Ecopetrol of Colombia and a consortium of US and West European countries, a traditional Colombian guerrilla target.

November 1992 : Peru - attack on a US Embassy warehouse caused little damage and no casualties.

December 1992 : Bombing of a hotel in Yemen used by American soldiers en route to humanitarian operations in Somalia, thought to be bin-Laden's earliest work against the US.

December 1992 : Peru ; In late December, Sendero attacked several foreign embassies, hitting the Chinese twice, to mark the centenary of the birth of Mao Tse-Tung. In the countryside, government counterinsurgency forces are stretched thin, and SL units continue to operate freely in many areas. Sendero has a relatively secure base area in the coca-growing region of the Huallaga River Valley and exploits the drug trade in various ways to finance group operations.

Jan. 1993 Mir Amal Kansi, a Pakistani, murders two CIA employees in a random shooting outside the Langley, VA headquarters and flees the country. He entered the United states in 1990 on a visa issued in Karachi, Pakistan. In 1992, he applied for political asylum in the United States and was routinely released with a work permit. Records indicate that he had been involved in anti-U.S. demonstrations in Pakistan. He had purchased an AK-47 assault rifle in Virginia.

1993 Spring Atef, Saif al Adel, another senior member of Al-Qaida, and other members began to provide military training to Somali tribes for the purpose of fighting the United Nations forces.

1993: "Afghan arabs," trained by bin Laden, allegedly assisted in killing 18 American soldiers in Somalia February 26, 1993 Under the influence of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef organizes Mohammed Salameh and three others in plotting and carrying out a bombing at New York's World Trade Center that caused mass destruction, six deaths and more than a thousand wounded. The group is comprised of Egyptians and Palestinians. Yousef, travelling on an Iraqi passport, entered the United States in September 1992 without a visa, but was allowed to enter the country provisionally after asking for asylum, because of lack of detention space. His companion, a Palestinian named Ahmad Ajaj, who arrived on a fake Swedish passport, was arrested and found to have bombmaking videos and manuals in his luggage. Salameh entered the United States in 1988 (BEFORE THE GULF WAR) on a Jordanian passport and a visitors visa issued in Amman, Jordan. He applied for legal residence status [presumably asylee status], was turned down, and continued to be in the country on appeal of that decision. AbdelRahman, an Egyptian religious leader charged with inciting a 1989 riot in Egypt, obtained a visa in Khartoum, Sudan which had no automated lookout system that would have identified him as a security threat. He entered as a tourist and applied for political asylum and received legal residence. An immigration judge ordered him deported in March, 1993, but he was still in the country four months later when he is arrested for terrorist acts.

April 1993: Attempted assassination of former President Bush in Kuwait was the most brazen Iraqi act of terrorism in 1993. Kuwaiti officials discovered the elaborate scheme to kill former President Bush with an enormous car bomb shortly before he arrived for a visit. The group arrested for the assassination attempt was also planning a bombing campaign to destabilize Kuwait. The 14 suspects--11 Iraqis and three Kuwaitis- -went on trial in June. Several of the Iraqi defendants worked for Iraqi intelligence, according to testimony in the trial. Forensic evidence also clearly linked Iraq to the abortive attack.

June 1993 : Eight militant Muslim fundamentalists are arrested in New York for plotting to blow up the United Nations headquarters, tunnels under the Hudson River and a federal office building. The arresstees were from Sudan, Egypt, the Israeli West Bank and Gaza, Jordan and Pakistan. To read the Department of Justice Inspector General's report on this incident, click here

October 3- 4, 1993 operatives of Al-Qaida participated in the attack on US military personnel serving in Somalia as part of operation 'Restore Hope.' Eighteen US military personnel were killed in the attack.

late 1993 - members of al-Qaida in Kenya began to discuss the possibility of attacking the US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya in retaliation for US participation in Operation restore hope in Somalia. Ali Mohamed, a US citizen and admitted member of Al-Qaida, surveyed the US embassy as a possible target for a terrorist attack. He took photographs and made sketches which he presented to Usama bin Laden while bin Laden was in Suan. He later admitted he had trained terrorists for al-Qaida in Afghanistan in the early 1990s and that some of those he had trained included many who woud go on to be involved in the East African embassy bombings in August 1998.

Mar. 1994 Rashad Baz, an immigrant from Lebanon, and two others shoot up a van full of Hasidic students, wounding four, on the Brooklyn Bridge. Baz entered on a student visa in 1984. (BEFORE THE GULF WAR) He attended courses parttime at a community college in 1984-85. He married a U.S. citizen in 1989 and applied for legal residence in 1991. Baz was accompanied by Bassam Mousa Reyati, a Jordanian, who entered as a student in 1989 (BEFORE THE GULF WAR) and received residency in 1992 on the basis of marriage to a U.S. citizen. Hlal Mohammed, a Jordanian, was the third terrorist.

Jan 1995 (According to the German paper 'Die Welt') AFP - Western secret services knew as far back as 1995 that suspected terror mastermind Osama bin Laden planned to attack civilian sites using commercial passenger planes, German newspaper Die Welt said. Quoting sources close to western intelligence services, Die Welt said authorities did not take seriously the threat of the plan, known as Project Bojinka. Phillipine police, investigating a possible attack against Pope John Paul II on a visit to Manila, found details of the plan in a computer seized in an apartment used by three men who were part of bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. It provided for 11 planes to be exploded simultaneously by bombs placed on board, but also in an alternative form for several planes flying to the United States to be hijacked and flown into civilian targets. Among targets mentioned was the World Trade Centre in New York, which was destroyed in the September 11 terror attacks in the United States that killed thousands. Other targets mentioned were CIA offices in Virginia and the Sears Tower in Chicago, Die Welt said. The plot re-surfaced during the trial in New York in 1997 of Pakistani Ramsi Youssef, the mastermind of the attack on the World Trade Centre in 1993. (The computer seized by Philippine police was that of 1993 WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef, who got to watch his dream of destroying the WTC become reality from a luxury prison cell (complete with TV) in Colorado.) March 1995: American employees of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan killed in response to arrest of World Trade Center bombing suspect.

April 1995 : Ron Brown, Commerce Secretary, dies in suspicious plane crash- see Clinton bodycount

April 19, 1995 Bomb rips through the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killed 168 and injured more than 500. Timothy McVeigh was convicted of federal murder charges and executed in June.

November 1995: U.S. troops attacked in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; five Americans killed.

1996 - Saudi al-Qaida member Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al 'Owali, later to become a bomber of the US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, underwent training in al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan in explosives, hijacking, kidknapping, assasination and intelligence techniques. With Usama bin Laden's express permission, he fought alongside the Taleban in Afghanistan. He had met Usama bin Laden personally in 1996 and asked for another 'mission.' Usama sent him to East Africa after extensive specialized training at camps in Afghanistan.

February 24, 1996: Shootdown of two small US civilian aircraft over the straits of Florida by Cuba. According to a report from the Organización de Aviación Civil Internacional (OACI) [International Civil Aviation Organization, known as ICAO], the events took place on February 24, 1996 at 15:21 and 15:27, respectively, in international air space. The air-to-air missiles fired by the MIG-29 disintegrated the civil small aircraft, producing the instantaneous deaths of Armando Alejandre, Jr., 45 years of age; Carlos Alberto Costa, 29 years of age; Mario Manuel de la Peña, 24 years of age; and Pablo Morales, 29 years of age. (See http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/oasfeb24rep.html )

Apr. 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) is enacted. It provides for expeditious removal of mala fide asylum applicants, restricts judicial review of deportation, increases penalties and RICO investigation powers for terrorism investigations. The State Dept. was required to develop a list of foreign terrorist organizations. President Clinton signed, but said at the time that he considered some of the changes "illadvised." Subsequently the Administration tried unsuccessfully to strip summary exclusion from the law through the Leahy amendment to the Illegal Immigration Reform Act. In the end, the later act softened some of exclusion process for asylum claimants. Surviving in the INA are AEDPA amendments to Section 219 ("Designation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.")

May 1996: Saudi and American diplomatic pressure led Sudan to expel bin Laden, and he returned to Afghanistan, where the radical Taliban was gathering momentum. Like Lenin returning to Russia, bin Laden’s return was timely. He promptly gave the Taliban $3 million to finance the successful capture of the cities of Jalalabad and Kabul. He established a close relationship with Mullah Omar, and threw his support behind the Taleban. Usama Bin Laden and the Taleban regime have a close alliance on which both depend for their continued existence. They also share the same religious values and vision. Usama Bin Laden has provided the Taleban regime with troops, arms, and money to fight the Northern Alliance. He is closely involved with Taleban military training, planning and operations. He has representatives in the Taleban military command structure. He has also given infrastructure assistance and humanitarian aid. Forces under the control of Usama Bin Laden have fought alongside the Taleban in the civil war in Afghanistan. Omar has provided Bin Laden with a safe haven in which to operate, and has allowed him to establish terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. They jointly exploit the Afghan drugs trade. In return for active Al Qaida support, the Taleban allow Al Qaida to operate freely, including planning, training and preparing for terrorist activity. In addition the Taleban provide security for the stockpiles of drugs.

June 25, 1996: Terrorists attack the U.S. military complex at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans and wounding hundreds more.

August 6, 1996 - Officials announced the Air Force had punished 16 officers in connection with the crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others the previous April.

Sept. 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Alien Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRARA) changes summary exclusion to expedited exclusion for mala fide asylum applicants. The new standard allows an appeal to an Immigration Judge. Also included is a provision to make activities that "incite terrorism" or represent a danger to the community or security of the United States as a grounds for exclusion from the United States. The IIRARA also expanded detention facilities and broadened the definition of an aggravated felony for purposes of deportation. October 12 1996 Osama bin Laden issued a declaration of jihad as follows:

"The people of Islam have suffered from aggression, iniquity and injustice imposed by the Zionist-Crusader alliance and their collaborators..."

It is the duty now on every tribe in the Arabian peninsula to fight jihad and cleanse the land from these Crusader occupiers. Their wealth is booty to those who kill them.

My Muslim brothers: your brothers in Palestine and in the land of the two Holy Places (i.e. Saudi Arabia) are calling upon your help and asking you to take part in fighting against the enemy - the Americans and the Issraelis. They are asking you to do whatever you can to expel the enemies out of the sanctities of Islam."

Later in the same year Osama said, " Terrorizing the American occupiers (of Islamic Holy Places) is a religious and logical obligation."

December 1996 : Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, a Palestinian, arrives in the US. several weeks later he kills seven tourists at the Empire State Building

Feb. 1997 Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, a Palestinian teacher who arrived in the United States in December, 1996 on a tourist visa kills seven tourists with a 14 shot semiautomatic pistol at the Empire State Building before killing himself. He bought the gun in Florida despite federal law prohibiting sales to aliens who do not have at least 90 days of residency. Abu Kamal wrote that he was taking vengeance against enemies of the Palestinian people.

Mar. 1997 Legislation is introduced to extend firearm restriction to legal resident aliens, except for hunting and sporting, unless they have been in the U.S. for one year. Bin Laden told CNN in March 1997 that he had trained the "Afghan Arabs" who helped to kill 18 American soldiers in Somalia in 1993

1997 massacre of 80 Western tourists near Cairo. Egypt's most powerful Islamic militant group -- al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya -- claimed responsibility Tuesday for the 70 deaths, which also included the attackers, police officers and several Egyptians. (There were some attacks on tourists prior to this as well.) In a statement faxed to The Associated Press, the group said the tourists were killed Monday while its gunmen were trying to take them hostage in an attempt to secure the release of the group's spiritual leader, Omar Abdel Rahman. The cleric is in a U.S. prison for conspiring to blow up New York landmarks, including the World Trade Center in 1993.

July 1997 Two Palestinians and a Pakistani are arrested on a tipoff to New York City police and are found to have suicide bombs and a note indicating they intend a terrorist attack in the city's subways. Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer, a Palestinian, entered the United States (in Washington state) illegally from Canada three times and was apprehended and returned to Canada. He entered Canada as a student, but requested and received political asylum. After his last U.S. entry the Canadians would not take him back because he had committed crimes in Canada. He applied for asylum, and a judge ordered a hearing for 1998 and released him. Abu Mezer said that he had been accused by the Israeli government of belonging to Hamas, a terrorist organization a claim denied by his family in Israel. On June 23, at a hearing on his asylum application, he withdrew it, and the judge gave him 60 days to depart the country. Lafi Khalil, the second terrorism suspect entered the country on a tourist visa and stayed on illegally.

The Administration, represented by the INS and the State Department, support adoption on a permanent basis of the adjustment of status provision for illegal aliens — INA Section 245(i) — that facilitates legal residence status for persons entering without inspection or overstaying their visa without having to leave the United States for investigation of their possible ineligibility for immigrant status in their native country.

Aug. 1997 The State Department acknowledges that it still has not prepared the list of international terrorist organizations required by the Antiterrorism Act in 1996. A Dept. State spokesman says the report is overdue because any group designated as a terrorist organization will have the right to challenge that designation in U.S. courts. The designation will cause U.S. fundraising activities for the group to be cut off and members of the group will be barred from entering the United States.

In interviews broadcast on US television in 1997 and 1998 Osama bin LAden referred to the terrorists who carried out the earlier attack on the world Trade Center in 1993 as "role models." He went on to exhort his followers "to take the fighting to America."

February 1998: Osama bin LAden issued and signed a 'fatwa' which included a decree to all Muslims:

"...the killing of Americans and their civilian and military allies is a religious duty for each and every Muslim to be carried out in whichever country they are until Al Aqsa mosque has been liberated from their grasp and until their armies have left Muslim lands."

In the same 'fatwa' he called on Muslim scholars and their leaders and their youths to :

"...launch an attack on the American soldiers of Satan."

and concluded:

"We- with god's help - call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill Americans and plunder their money whenever and wherever they find it. We also call on Muslims... to launch the raid on Satan's US troops and the devil's supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them."

When asked in 1998 about obtaining chemical or nuclear weapons he said:

"acquiring such weapons for the defense of Muslims (was) a religious duty"

In an interview aired on Al Jazira (Doha, Qatar) television, he stated:

"Our enemy is every American male, whether he is directly fighting us or paying taxes."

1998 Montes (Later determined to be a spy for Cuba) accompanied two senior aides to Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) on a trip to Cuba; Helms was at that time the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and one of the most vehement opponents of Cuba’s leftist government.

May 1998 Secretary of Defense William Cohen testified in Congress that Cuba possesses advanced biotechnology and is capable of mass-producing agents for biological warfare.

1998: An Egyptian terrorist belonging to al-Gamal al-Islamiya entered Colombia illegally in 1998 to hold talks with FARC and was arrested and turned over to U.S. authorities. — He was wanted in connection with the 1997 massacre of 80 Western tourists near Cairo.

June or July 1998 : two al-Qaida operatives, Fahid Mohammed Ali Msalam and Sheik Ahmed Salim Swedan, purchesed a Toyota truck and made various alterations to the back of the truck.

July 1998: A Nissan Atlas truck was purchased in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, by al-Qaida operatives Ahmed Khfaklan Ghailani and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan.

Early August 1998: operatives of al-Qaida gathered in #43 New Runda Estates, Nairobi to execute the bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

August 7, 1998: Assam, a Saudi national and al-Qaida operative, drove the Toyota truck (with a large bomb in back) to the US embassy in Nairobi. Also in the truck was Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al 'Owali, another Saudi who by his own confession was an al-Qaida operative, who from about 1996 had been trained in al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan in explosives, hijacking, kidknapping, assasination and intelligence techniques. With Usama bin Laden's express permission, he fought alongside the Taleban in Afghanistan. He had met Usama bin Laden personally in 1996 and asked for another 'mission.' Usama sent him to East Africa after extensive specialized training at camps in Afghanistan.

As the truck approached the US embassy, Al 'Owali got out and threw a stun grenade at a security guard. Assam drove the truck up to the rear of the embassy, got out, and then detonated the bomb, which demolished a multi-storey secretarial college and severely damaged the US embassy and the Cooperative Bank building. The bomb killed 213 people and injured 4500. Assam was killed in the explosion.

Al 'Owali expected the mission to end in his death. He had been willing to die for al-Qaida, but at the last minute he ran away from the bomb truck and survived He had no money, passport or plan to escape after the mission because he had expected to die.

Another person arrested in connection with the Nairobi bombing was Mohammed Sadeek Odeh. He admitted to his involvement. He identified the principal participants in the bombing. He named three other persons, all of whom were Al-Qaida or Egyptian Islamic Jihad members.

August 7, 1998: In Dar es Salaam (Tanzania?) at about the same time as the bombing at the US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, operatives of al-Qaida detonated a bomb at the US embassy, killing 11 people. The al-Qaida operatives involved included Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil and Khaflan Khamis Mohamed. The bomb was carried in a Nissan Atlas truck, which Ahmed Khfaklan Ghailani and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, two al-Qaida operatives, had purchased in July 1998 in Dar es Salaam. Khaflan Khamis Mohamed was arrested for the bombing. He admitted membership in al-Qaida and implicated other members of al-Qaida in the bombing.

August 7, 1998: Terrorists bomb U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in Africa, killing 224 people including 12 Americans and injuring thousands. U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed by terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden.

August 7 and 8, 1998: Two other members of al-Qaida disseminated claims of responsibility for the two bombings by sending faxes to media organizations in Paris, Doha in Qatar, and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

August ? ,1998 : A few days after the embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, surviving terrorist Al 'Owali called a telephone number in Yemen to have money transferred to him in Kenya. The numer he rang in Yemen was contacted by Usama Bin Laden's phone on the same day as Al 'Owali was arranging to get the money.

Additional evidence of al-qaida involvement in the East African embassy bombings came from a search conducted in London of several residences and businesses belonging to al-Qaida and Egyptian Islamic Jihad members. In those searches a number of documents were found including claims of responsibility for the bombings in the name of a fictitious group, the 'Islamic Army for the liberation of the Holy Places.' Al O'wali, the would-be suicide bomber, admitted he was told to make a video tape of himself using the name of the same fictitious group.

The faxed claims of responsibility were traced to a phone number which had been in contact with Usama bin Laden's cell phone. The claims disseminated to the press were clearly written by someone familiar with the conspiracy. They stated that the bombings were carried out by two Saudis in Kenya, and one Egyptian in Dar es Salaam. they were probably sent before the bombings had even taken place. They referred to two Saudis dying in the Nairobi attack, when in fact, because of Al 'Owali fleeing at the last minute, only one Saudi died.

1998 (near the end of the year) The source added that Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which has now effectively merged with al-Qaeda, maintained regular contacts with Iraq for many years. He confirmed the claims first made by the Iraqi National Congress - that towards the end of 1998, Farouk Hijazi, Iraq's ambassador to Turkey and a key member of the Mukhabarat leadership - went to Kandahar in Afghanistan, where he met bin Laden.

February, 1999: Three Americans are abducted and killed by Colombian guerrillas.

March 1, 1999: Congo-based Rwandan rebels kill two Americans along with six other foreign tourists in Uganda.

March 31, 1999: Air traffic controllers at Kennedy Airport, New York were forced to use portable, hand-held radios to guide pilots to safe landings and departures after a power failure knocked out the control tower's communication system for nearly two hours March 31. The power failure, at the height of the evening rush hour, shut down a computer controlling eight radio frequencies and three telephone lines used to communicate with pilots in the air and on the ground. "It was hectic with the portable radios because we kept cutting each other off with our transmissions," said Barrett Byrnes, an official of the controllers' union who happened to be on duty.

May 13, 1999 An incident recorded by the Federal Communications Commission in which Cuban electronic-warfare specialists penetrated New York's air-traffic-control system by simulating U.S. Air Force flight codes. The signals, which seriously threatened to disrupt air traffic, were traced to a 1,500 kilowatt transmitter operating west of Havana.

(The Chinese have also established for themselves a sophisticated network of electronic espionage in Cuba to be used against the U.S. The bases are operating under the cover of Radio China short wave transmissions to Latin America and the U.S. Their principal bases are at Bejucal and near Havana. They are capable of interfering with U.S. air traffic control, according to the FCC. On the 13th of May at 4:48 p.m., the Chinese sent a communication to the air traffic control in New York, falsely identifying themselves as OPEC21, a U.S. Military C130 plane. )

Sept 12, 1998: Ten people allegedly operating as a Cuban spy ring "have been arrested and accused of collecting information on U.S. military installations and anti-Castro groups in Florida, federal officials announced today. The arrests, carried out Saturday [12 Sep. 1998], ended the most extensive espionage effort involving Cuban agents ever uncovered here, U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Scott said."

December 33, 1998 : Usama Bin Laden was asked by Time magazine whether he was responsible fo rthe August 1998 attacks. He replied:

"The International Islamic Jihad Front for the Jihad against the US and Israel has, by the grace of God, issued a crystal clear fatwah calling on the Islamic nation to carry on Jihad aimed at liberating the holy sites. the nation of Mohammed has responded to this appeal. If intigation for jihad against the Jews and the Americans... is considered to be a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a criminal. Our job is to instigate and, by the grace of God, we did that, and certain people responded tot his instigation."

He was asked if he knew the attackers:

"...those who risked their lives to earn the pleasure of God are real men. They managed to rid the Islamic nation of disgrace. We hold them in the highest esteem. "

And what the US could expect of him:

"...any thief or criminal who enters another country to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time... The US knows that I have attacked it, by the grace of God, for more than ten years now... God knows that we have been pleased by the killing of American soldiers (in Somalia in 1993.) This was achieved by the grace of God and the efforts of the mujahadeen... Hostility towards America is a religious duty and we hope to be rewarded for it by God. I am confident that Muslims will be able to end the legend of the so-called superpower that is America. "

December 23, 1998, three Cuban diplomats at the United Nations were ordered to leave the United States. "The three men were linked to espionage after an investigation by the FBI that led to the arrest and indictment of 10 suspected Cuban agents in Miami three months ago. The three men in New York have diplomatic passports, which give them immunity from prosecution as spies."

Dec. 1999 Ahmed Ressam, who was admitted to Canada as an asylum applicant in 1994 despite being expelled from Algeria and France for suspicion of terrorist activities, was arrested in Port Angeles, Wash. attempting to enter the U.S. from Canada with a carload of bomb-making materials destined for Los Angeles airport. A terrorist cell linked to al-Qaida was discovered trying to carry out attacks inside the United States. An Algerian, Ahmed Ressam, was stopped at the US-Canadian border and over 100 lbs of bomb-making material was found in his car. Ressam admitted he was planning to set off a large bomb at Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Day. He said that he had received terrorist training at al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and then been instructed to go abroad and kill US civilians and military personnel.

January, 2000 Kenneth White, an American oil executive, is kidnapped in Yemen. He was released 16 days later.

January 3, 2000: A group of al-Qaida members and other terrorists who had trained in al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan attempted to attack a US destroyer, USS The Sullivans, with a small boat loaded with explosives. Their boat sank in the port of Aden, aborting the attack. ( Huh? Around the same time, U.S. law enforcement personnel arrested Ahmed Ressam, who they believed was planning several terrorist attacks on West Coast targets, including Los Angeles International Airport, coinciding with the Millennium celebrations. )

February 10, 2000 : American oil executive Kenneth White released in Yemen. At Stansted, England, 9 hijackers surrendered and released all hostages of the Afghan jetliner. Police arrested 21 [22] people and recovered arms. Half the hostages requested asylum

Feb 2000: Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) official Mariano Faget, charged in February 2000; he was subsequently convicted of using classified information for business purposes, a technical violation of the U.S. Espionage Act, and was sentenced to five years in jail As of this time he was the highest ranking Cuban spy known to operate in the US.

March 2000, Amarylis Silverio Santos and her husband, Joseph Santos, along with several (14?) others of the group, pleaded guilty to "charges of acting as unregistered agents of a foreign government." John Elvin, "Jail Time for Cuban Spies," Insight on the News, 6 Mar. 2000.

May 2000: Castro visits Iran

August 2000: Three Afghani nationals and suspected al-Qaeda members caught trying to deposit $2 million in a bank in the Cayman Islands were found to have entered the British colony on a commercial flight from nearby Cuba using false Pakistani passports.

September 4-15, 2000 : Hijacking suspect Moussaoui was in Malaysia between September 4 and 15.

October 5, 2000 : Hijacking suspect Moussaoui was in Malaysia on October 5 in 2000

Oct. 12, 2000: USS Cole was refueling in the Yemeni port of Aden when a small harbor skiff pulled alongside it and detonated explosives, killing 17 sailors, injuring 39 or 40 others. Several of the perpetrators of the Cole attack (mostly Yemenis or Saudis) were trained at Usama bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan. Al 'Owali (a surviving terrorist of the Nairobi US embassy bombing) has identified the two commanders of the attack on the USS Cole as having participated in the planning and preparation of the East African US embassy bombings.

April 17, 2001: (double check this) the Czechs expelled al-Ani, who had diplomatic cover, as a hostile spy. Last night, a senior US diplomatic source told The Observer that Atta was not the only suspected al-Qaeda member who met al-Ani and other Iraqi agents in Prague. He said the Czechs monitored at least two further such meetings in the months before 11 September. The senior US intelligence source said the CIA believed that two other hijackers, al-Shehri and Jarrah, also met known Iraqi intelligence officers outside the US in the run-up to the atrocities. It is understood these meetings took place in the United Arab Emirates - where Iraq maintains its largest 'illegal', or non-diplomatic, cover intelligence operation, most of it devoted to oil exports and busting economic sanctions. See this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/568298/posts"

May 10, 2001: Agence France-Presse reported that Castro, in an apocalyptic speech, told his Muslim audience in Iran: "America is weak. I have studied its weaknesses from very close by. I tell you, the imperialist king will finally fall."

May 25, 2001: The U.S. says that agents copied incriminating material from a computer in (Cuban spy) Montes’ home.

2001 - Propaganda videos were distributed throughout the Middle East and Muslim world by al-Qaida in which Usama bin Laden and others were shown encouraging Muslims to attack American and Jewish targets. Similar videos extolling violence against the United States and other targets were distributed before the US embassy bombings in Africain August of 1998. Usama's propaganda claimed that those who died in the course of carrying out such attacks would be carrying out God's work.

June 13, 2001: In an interview on French television on Monday, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt spoke in specific terms about the threat, saying that "on June 13 of this year, we learned of a communiqué from bin Laden saying he wanted to assassinate George W. Bush and other G8 heads of state during their summit in Italy."

June 2001 a U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, specifically identified Saudi Hizbullah as the party responsible for the 1996 killing of 19 U.S. servicemen in al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Another 372 were wounded in this attack. The indictment specifically notes: "Because Saudi Hizbullah was an outlaw organization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, its members frequently met and trained in Lebanon, Syria, or Iran."

June 2001, in the face of mounting evidence of the Al Qaida threat, the United States warned the Taleban that it had the right to defend itself and that it would hold the regime responsible for attacks against US citizens by terrorists sheltered in Afghanistan. In this, the United States had the support of the United Nations. The Security Council, in Resolution 1267, condemned Usama Bin Laden for sponsoring international terrorism and operating a network of terrorist camps, and demanded that the Taleban surrender Usama Bin Laden without further delay so that he could be brought to justice.

Despite the evidence provided by the US of the responsibility of Usama Bin Laden and Al Qaida for the 1998 East Africa bombings, despite the accurately perceived threats of further atrocities, and despite the demands of the United Nations, the Taleban r?me responded by saying no evidence existed against Usama Bin Laden, and that neither he nor his network would be expelled.

A former Government official in Afghanistan has described the Taleban and Usama Bin Laden as "two sides of the same coin: Usama cannot exist in Afghanistan without the Taleban and the Taleban cannot exist without Usama."

Aug 1, 2001: Mysterious predictions about some catastrophic event in the United States began to circulate in the electronic traffic and even were voiced by Russia's Pravda under the headline, "The Dollar and the U.S. Will Fall." Based on interviews with the Malaysian ambassador to Moscow and a group of Russian economists, the report was taken seriously enough for members of Russia's parliament, the Duma, to advise Russian citizens to cash out dollars. An adviser to the Duma's Commission on Economic Politics, Tatyana Koryagina, even specified late August or early September as the likely time for an attack on the United States that would lead to its economic collapse. Not known to the US at the time, Bin Laden himself asserted before Sept 11 that he was preparing a major attack on America.

In August 2001, a suspected Algerian terrorist, Zacarias Moussaoui, was picked up in Minnesota on immigration charges after a flight simulator training school tipped off authorities that Moussaoui had offered cash to learn only how to "steer" a jumbo jet and apparently wasn't interested in practicing take-offs and landings.

When told of Moussaoui's arrest, French intelligence authorities notified the FBI that Moussaoui was linked to bin Laden and that the Saudi dissident was training his terrorists to fly commercial aircraft. The French, having thwarted an attempt by hijackers to crash an airliner into the Eiffel Tower in 1994, apparently understood the seriousness of the matter.

Despite these ominous signs, U.S. authorities did not alert commercial airlines to be alert of the possible takeover of cockpit controls by terrorists, nor did they increase the alert status of U.S. fighter aircraft should an interception be neccessary. (BTW, INS computers were not linked to FBI computers- Moussaoui's arrest on immigration charges may not have been flagged by the FBI)

August 31, 2001: George and Marisol Gari were arrested and charged with "conspiracy to act as agents of a foreign government without proper identification or notice to the attorney general." U.S. authorities say that they were members of "the largest Cuban spy ring ever detected,... 'La Red Avispa,' or the Wasp Network, five members of whom were convicted in June of conspiring to spy on the United States for Fidel Castro's regime."

August and September 2001 - close associates of Bin Laden were warned to return to Afghanistan from other parts of the world by 10 September. Immediately before the 11th of September known associates of bin Laden were naming the date for action as on or around September 11, 2001. One of Bin Laden's closest and most senior associates was responsible for the detailed planning of the attacks.

Sept 11, 2001: Hijacked passenger jets slam into the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, killing thousands. Bin Laden and his al Qaeda terror network are immediately suspected as being behind the attacks.

Sept 11, 2001: Castro was ordering a military alert in Cuba and calling up reserves.

September 12, 2001 : US President George Bush announces he will make no distinction between the perpetrators of the atrocities and those who harbour them. Bin Laden congratulates the people who carried out the US strikes but denies responsibility, Abu Dhabi television reports.

September 13: Bin Laden confirmed as a suspect by US Secretary of State Colin Powell.

6:30 p.m. on Sept. 14, 2001: Ana Belen Montes, a senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), walked into a public telephone booth outside Washington's National Zoo and made two calls to pager numbers later traced by federal agents to Cuba's Directorate of General Intelligence (DGI). She already had compromised the identities of CIA agents, revealed U.S. military secrets and exposed the contents of classified files. But, as Montes sent repeated signals to her DGI handlers during the days immediately following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the FBI was given orders to act.

September 14: Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime, defends bin Laden against US accusations that he masterminded the terror strikes.

September 15: The United States is officially declared at war by President Bush, who says that bin Laden is their prime suspect.

Sept 21, 2001: Ana Belen Montes arrested

September 24: Governments across the world announce they are taking action to freeze the assets of bin Laden and the al Qaeda network. Television reports quote bin Laden as urging Pakistanis to fight any assault on Afghanistan by the "crusader Americans".

September 24, 2001, the United States froze the assets of the following organizations believed to be supporting terrorism:

Al Qaida/Islamic Army
Abu Sayyaf Group
Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad)
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Asbat al-Ansar
Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI)
Islamic Army of Aden
Usama bin Laden
Muhammad Atif (aka, Subhi Abu Sitta, Abu Hafs Al Masri)
Sayf al-Adl
Shaykh Sai'id (aka, Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad)
Abu Hafs the Mauritanian (aka, Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, Khalid Al-Shanqiti)
Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi
Abu Zubaydah (aka, Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, Tariq)
Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi (aka, Abu Abdallah)
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Thirwat Salah Shihata
Tariq Anwar al-Sayyid Ahmad (aka, Fathi, Amr al-Fatih)
Muhammad Salah (aka, Nasr Fahmi Nasr Hasanayn)
Makhtab Al-Khidamat/Al Kifah
Wafa Humanitarian Organization
Al Rashid Trust
Mamoun Darkazanli Import-Export Company

October 2, 2001 : Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks to the Labour Party conference in Brighton, warning the Taliban it should surrender bin Laden or "surrender power". Nato says the US has produced "conclusive evidence" that bin Laden was behind the attacks.

October 4, 2001 : Firm evidence links bin Laden to at least three of the hijackers, Mr Blair tells Parliament.

October 7, 2001 : First reports of explosions over the Afghan capital. President Bush speaks to the American people, confirming the "carefully targeted" air strikes and announcing that the war on terrorism is under way. Prime Minister Tony Blair said "the objectives to eradicate Osama bin Laden's network of terror" had been put in place. Ruling Taliban officials say they are "ready for jihad" - holy war.

October 8, 2001 : Bin Laden threatens more violence against America saying: "You will not feel safe or secure." Speaking on Al Jazeera he calls on Muslims around the world to join a war on America.

October 10, 2001 : Bin Laden's terror group al Qaeda calls for Muslims across the world to join a holy war against America and its allies, and claims there are "thousands of young people who look forward to death." Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime is showing signs of cracking under the strain of coalition air strikes, British defence sources claim. As US warplanes began a fourth straight night of bombing raids on Taliban defences, officials in London said the regime could collapse without the need to send in ground troops.

October 13, 2001 : Taliban rulers reject Mr Bush's second chance offer to surrender bin Laden and instead pledge to fight to "the last breath".

October 16, 2001 : US officials confirm for first time that a heavily-armed special forces AC-130 Spectre gunships have been in action attacking Taliban military bases. The lumbering AC-130 - adapted from the Hercules transport aircraft - is typically used to support special forces troops on the ground, intensifying speculation that such units are already operating inside Afghanistan.

October 17, 2001 : The US-led coalition begins to turn its firepower on Taliban troops fighting the rebel Northern Alliance in an effort to turn the screws on the Afghan regime. Northern Alliance fighters are reported to be close to capturing the key northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif and to be threatening the capital, Kabul.

October 19, 2001 : The Taliban leadership continues to voice defiance after it emerges that US special forces are now operating behind the lines inside Afghanistan.

October 19, 2001: Putin announces that Russia will close its listening post at Lourdes, near Havana, Cuba- just hours before the APEC meeting in Shanhai which Bush would attend.

October 20, 2001: US special forces are parachuted into enemy territory, killing Taliban troops and destroying key targets in ground attacks. Later reports claim that the operation was bungled and led to 12 American soldiers being injured. Reports appear to be false, initiated by Seymore Hersch of the New Yorker magazine.

October 22, 2001 : Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon confirms that US warplanes have now turned their attention to Taliban positions facing Northern Alliance forces around the Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.

October 23, 2001 : Mr Hoon says that all the al Qaeda terrorist training camps have been destroyed by the air strikes.

October 29, 2001 : The Pentagon says US warplanes have begun systematically bombing the cave complexes where bin Laden and his key lieutenants are believed to be hiding out.

October - November 2001 OSAMA BIN LADEN has for the first time admitted that his al-Qa'eda group carried out the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the Telegraph can reveal. The video had been circulating for 14 days prior to the news.telegraph.co.uk getting wind of it. The killing of at least 4,537 people was justified, he claims, because they were "not civilians" but were working for the American system. Bin Laden also makes a direct personal threat against Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, for the first time, and warns nations such as Australia, Germany and Japan to stay out of the conflict.