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BY THE OREGONIAN/OREGONLIVE (Compiled from news accounts, court records, public notices) Last week's arrest of a long-sought accused eco-saboteur pushed the spotlight back on a tight-knit cell of radical environmentalists responsible for a $48 million run of firebombings and other crimes across the West in the 1990s and early 2000s. Six men and five women prosecuted in Oregon received sentences ranging from three years to 13 years. They were arrested starting in 2005 in what the FBI called "Operation Backfire," a task force that tracked down the suspects with the help of an informant deep within the underground group....

Two brothers who kept a “human sacrifice” hit list of cops, judges, politicians, celebrities and “banker scum” were nabbed with an arsenal of homemade bombs and ghost guns in their family’s Queens apartment, prosecutors said Monday. Wannabe anarchists Andrew Hatziagelis, 39, and his 51-year-old brother, Angelo, were hit with a 130-count indictment after cops and federal agents seized a cache of weapons that included “improvised” explosive devices, body armor and a collection of AR-15-style and 9mm ghost guns. The pair also allegedly scribbled “hit list” on a scrap of notebook paper that included a list of potential targets that also...

QUEENS, NY (TND) — A shocking arrest was made in an apparent homegrown terrorism case involving two brothers in Queens, New York. Authorities said an arsenal of homemade weapons and a "hit list" listing "cops, judges, politicians, celebrities" and “banker scum” were found when the suspected anarchists were arrested at their home. New York police arrested 39-year-old Andrew and 51-year-old Angelo Hatziagelis. On January 17, a search warrant was served at their Astoria apartment that the brothers shared with their mother and another brother.

Fortified terror tunnel exposed underneath Gaza's Al Shifa hospital complex IDF says tunnel, outfitted with blast-proof door and firing hole, found alongside booby-trapped vehicle loaded with weapons

Riot Arrest Roundup CBS4, Miami: Miami PD Announces Charges For Giovanni Franchesko Fernandez, The Man Accused Of Torching Police Car During Protest WJTV12: Police: Florida woman arrested for assaulting officers, inciting riot, supplying rocks during protests DOJ: LOUISVILLE, Ky. – United States Attorney Russell Coleman today announced the charging of three individuals for Conspiracy to Commit Burglary Involving Controlled Substances. KVVU Las Vegas - Report: FBI found weapons, booby traps after arrest of 3 Nevada men

Little scant coverage has been given to the story of doctor Mark Samir Sawaf. He was a LPCC Psychotherapist in Kentucky USA. This was his public image. His private life was more sinister than you can imagine. What the media is not telling you about this case was that Sawaf was a Muslim and a terrorist before he was gunned down in Kentucky for an alleged crime. Samir Sawaf set up IED’s and pipe bombs in Kentucky, USA. While his story gained local coverage in Kentucky, the reason is that the media forgot to tell the public that the family...

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has just published its latest issue of Inspire magazine. It contains some items of particular interest and concern to Westerners: • AQAP is now advising Muslims in the West to target people in their homes. • They suggest using technology to plan home assassinations, such as Google Earth, small drones and cameras. • The magazine contains new detailed instructions on new types of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) inside of books, attached to automobiles with magnets and attached to doors in homes. • AQAP calls on “Knife Revolutionaries” to conduct knife attacks specifically on Americans,...

Police in Hemet, Calif., are on a heightened alert amid assassination attempts against officers possibly orchestrated by a motorcycle gang. HEMET, Calif. -- The tense atmosphere surrounding a California police department plagued by booby trap attacks has been stepped up a notch following the latest threat against officers. Someone called 911 at about 5:45 p.m. Friday saying a police car would be blown up in the Hemet-San Jacinto area in the next 24 to 48 hours, Hemet Police Chief Richard Dana said. "We're heightening the alert," Dana told The Press-Enterprise. The caller said the attack would be in retaliation for...

TIKRIT, Iraq – A Coalition force Air Weapons Team from 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, destroyed a house-borne improvised explosive device Jan. 16 at Khan Bani Sad, northeast of Baghdad, after a local shaykh told the Iraqi Army about the danger. “This HBIED was a clear threat to Iraqi civilians, and was reported by a village leader to the Iraqi Army,” said Capt. Mike McLean, an Apache Longbow helicopter pilot involved in the operation. McLean said the IAs on-scene commander then requested a precision-strike capability from partnered ground forces to destroy the house. The AWT successfully destroyed the house with no...

Baghdad - The Iraqi army said on Thursday it had seized a number of booby-trapped children's dolls, accusing insurgents of using the explosive-filled toys to target children. The dolls were found in a car, each one containing a grenade or other explosive, said an army statement. The government said that two men driving the car had been arrested in the western Baghdad district of Abu Ghraib. "This is the same type of doll as that handed out on several occasions by US soldiers to children," said government spokesperson Leith Kubba. It was not immediately clear when the find was made...

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Army commander asserted Tuesday that extremist fighters in northern Iraq committed atrocities against civilians, including beheadings, torture and the booby-trapping of a murdered child's body. "The enemy here did just the most horrible things you can imagine _ in one case murdering a child, placing a booby trap within the child's body and waiting for the parent to come recover the body of their child and exploding it to kill the parents; beheadings and so forth," McMaster said in an interview from Tal Afar with reporters at the Pentagon. His comments came two days after the...

AUSTRALIAN navy boarding teams have uncovered chilling evidence suggesting Iraqi soldiers may be plotting chemical attacks on shipping around Iraq's key port of Umm Qasr. And it comes as coalition naval forces found what appeared to be an abandoned suicide boat packed with explosives and weapons on the banks of a key waterway near the port on Wednesday. The highly-trained teams have found gas masks and diagrams detailing how to launch an attack from a small ship against a larger vessel. The sketches, gas masks, several army uniforms and a machine gun were found in a secret observation post on...

Wednesday April 2, 7:29 PM U.S. accused of dropping booby-trap pens BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's information minister has accused U.S.-led invasion forces of dropping booby-trapped pens and pencils on Iraqi villages. In his latest allegations that U.S. and British air forces were deliberately targeting Iraqi civilians, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf told a news conference: "This will be very astonishing to you. They have started sending down bombs on Iraqi villages. "Do you know what these booby traps are? They are pens and pencils," he said, holding aloft what looked like a black ballpoint pen. "We told our people to avoid them...

London, Mar 22, 2003 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered his forces to booby trap "practically all" of the country's oil and natural gas installations, British Chief of Defense Staff, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, said Saturday. In a joint press conference with Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon, Boyce said Saddam's order indicated that the Iraqi leader was "prepared to blow up the (country's) entire economy." The admiral also confirmed that the Iraqi Army's 51st Infantry Division made up of some 8,000 troops had begun to surrender near the strategic southern Iraqi city of Basra and reported "many thousands...

This isn’t the first time in our history that we’ve had the possibility of dangerous weapons in the hands of a leader we didn’t trust, and this won’t be the first time we’ve responded to this possible threat with a military assault. In 1992, the U.S. federal government conducted a military siege at Ruby Ridge, ultimately killing Randy Weaver's dog, son and wife. Mr. Weaver was suspected of being a cult leader, hording weapons and ammunition for anti-government purposes. The government was never able to prove their allegations, but ends-justify-the-means justice was the explanation for the loss of life. Did...