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A mother that gives violin lessons will face trial in the northwestern US state of Washington on charges she was an environmental terrorist, prosecutors said. Briana Waters, 30, of the famously liberal California city of Berkeley, has pleaded innocent in a Seattle federal court that she that fire bombed a horticulture center in 2001. A US district court judge allowed Waters to remain free pending the start of her trial in June, but ordered that she turn in her passport and have her whereabouts monitored electronically. Waters was the first person charged in connection with an attack that destroyed the...

Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front...domestic terrorists. Christopher W. McIntosh, 23... faces eight to 10 years in prison...was motivated to make a deal because the government threatened to invoke an anti-terrorism statute and seek a mandatory minimum of 30 years... Fire broke out at the McDonald's restaurant...when the restaurant was closed. Evidence collected at the scene, including fingerprints and DNA, linked McIntosh to the arson...fingerprints found on a can of spray paint left there matched McIntosh's. McIntosh admitted he carried several gallons of gasoline onto the restaurant's roof and set it on fire... that same day, McIntosh placed an...