Animal rights and environmental extremists use intimidation and violence to achieve their ends

Animal rights and environmental extremists do more than demonstrate and push radical legislation. They also use physical assaults, intimidation, vandalism, harassment, theft, property destruction and terrorism. During the past two decades these attacks have escalated. Because this is an international movement and major acts of terrorism and petty acts of vandalism and harassment occur virtually everyday, no list can keep up. This list is often cited as the most complete chronology of animal rights and eco- criminal acts on the Internet. Help us live up to that reputation by sending new or missing information to news@naiaonline.org.

April 29, 2006 Howard Lake, MN: ALF activists who thought they were raiding a mink farm, mistakenly opened 200 pens on a farm raising ferrets as pets. Breeding records and the guard fence were destroyed. All but 10-15 ferrets were recovered. Clearly showing that the activists thought the animals were mink, a post on the ALF Press Office website said in part, “ Finally, to all fur farmers, furriers, and profiters of death, this is the last warning: close down your buisnesses, or with boltcutters, fire, and storm, we'll do it for you. You can try to scare us, you can try to imprison us, and you can even try to kill us, but the day we stop will be the day that the last animal has been freed from its cage.”

April 17, 2006 Stockholm, Sweden: Animal Rights activists claimed, on the Internet, to have drilled through walls at Stockholm University and stolen 126 animals, as well as spray-painting slogans in the building.

April 15, 2006 Santa Cruz, CA: Six SUV’s were vandalized with spray-painted slogans and slashed tires. One owner saw a group of 30 to 40 men, on bicycles and wearing black trench coats riding away after one slashed all four tires on her car, parked in front of her house.

April 14, 2006 Bamford, England: ALF activists posted threats on the Internet against businessmen said to have links with HLS. The development comes two weeks after Mr. Greenhalgh, boss of Strand Transport Services Ltd, was sent a hoax bomb through the post to his home address. Along with posting the names and addresses of five couples, the anonymous post states in part “Over the last two weeks five sophisticated but harmless dummy explosive devices were sent to the home addresses of senior personnel of companies who foolishly persist in supporting HLS. They will remain a target of the ALF until they cease all involvement with the lab… This was not personal intimidation aimed at the individual, but an action carried out to sabotage and disrupt their company’s business relation with Huntingdon Life Sciences… More actions will be carried out against these companies unless they sever all ties with HLS”

April 4, 2006 Bamfield, England: Animal rights activists are suspected to be behind a fake bomb sent to a local home. The homeowner works for a company that has dealings with a laboratory conducting animal tests.

April 4, 2006 Scotchfort, Canada: A homemade firebomb was thrown into a lobster boat. Damage was minimal.

March 28, 2006 Lanark, Scotland: ALF activists destroyed £ 10,000 worth of fencing, believing the Newmill trout fishery to be a deer farm. Fencing had been destroyed at a deer-farm in Fife the same week. The Lanark deer farm operation had been closed six years ago, and the 18 red deer kept on the site were pets. Eight of the escaped deer had to be shot to prevent them from straying onto a nearby busy road or falling prey to poachers. Two cars at the site had their tires slashed. An ALF spokesman claimed the group was behind both recent incidents. He insisted it did not matter that the Lanark premises was no longer a deer farm. "The activists may have been slightly influenced if they had known the deer were not farmed but they are still in captivity," the spokesman said. "We are still opposed to imprisonment of animals such as in circuses and zoos. It is an extension to the moral question of slavery. It would still be a legitimate ALF action."

March 28, 2006 West Lothian, Scotland: Animal rights activists are believe to be behind an attack at a greyhound track that caused more than £10,000 worth of damage. ALF graffiti and threats were spray painted on fences, all electric cables were cut, three tractors wrecked and the track safety boards dismantled. CCTV footage showed several masked figures scaling the fences. Dog racing went on as scheduled, but speedway bike races, which the track also serves, suffered the most damage.

March 28, 2006 Lanark, Scotland: ALF activists destroyed £ 10,000 worth of fencing, believing the Newmill trout fishery to be a deer farm. Fencing had been destroyed at a deer-farm in Fife the same week. The Lanark deer farm operation had been closed six years ago, and the 18 red deer kept on the site were pets. Eight of the escaped deer had to be shot to prevent them from straying onto a nearby busy road or falling prey to poachers. Two cars at the site had their tires slashed. An ALF spokesman claimed the group was behind both recent incidents. He insisted it did not matter that the Lanark premises was no longer a deer farm. "The activists may have been slightly influenced if they had known the deer were not farmed but they are still in captivity," the spokesman said. "We are still opposed to imprisonment of animals such as in circuses and zoos. It is an extension to the moral question of slavery. It would still be a legitimate ALF action."

March 28, 2006 West Lothian, Scotland: Animal rights activists are believe to be behind an attack at a greyhound track that caused more than £10,000 worth of damage. ALF graffiti and threats were spray painted on fences, all electric cables were cut, three tractors wrecked and the track safety boards dismantled. CCTV footage showed several masked figures scaling the fences. Dog racing went on as scheduled, but speedway bike races, which the track also serves, suffered the most damage.

March 27, 2006 Caversham, England: A crude petrol bomb was found outside the home of a director of PDP Courier Services which supplies HLS. The director said she had been targeted by ALF before, by acid attacks on her family’s two cars. A second bomb was found in the yard of a nearby house where it had apparently been discarded. The intruder was apprehended, and four others arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause explosions. Robin Webb, of ALF, said: “[she] is a legitimate target for people working to end the appalling suffering of animals at the hands of Huntingdon Life Sciences. The ALF has been targeting Huntingdon Life Sciences for more than 20 years and will continue to do so until its work is halted.”

March 24, 2006 Fife, Scotland: Animal rights activists attacked a deer farm, leaving ALF slogans and a threat to return painted on the road. Hundreds of meters of fence was destroyed, but no animals escaped.

March 19, 2006 Hampshire, England: ALF claimed to have cut wiring and destroyed cooling systems on transmitters belonging to Vodafone. The company is being targeted for providing money to projects at Oxford, although the work does not involve animals. Vodafone said that its projects involved using mobile phone technology to monitor diabetes and chemotherapy patients.

March 12, 2006 Salem, OR: ELF slogans were spray-painted on three homes under construction, and a window of one house was broken.

January 30, 2006 England: The home of the company secretary of GlaxoSmithKline was vandalized by ALF activists, and threats against him posted on the ALF website.

January 30, 2006 Guelph, Canada: In an e-mail message to the Guelph Mercury, the ELF claimed responsibility for an arson attack on a home under construction, causing $5000 in damages. Investigators are looking into possible links to three other ELF attacks in the city in 2005.

January 29, 2006 Kent, England: Fifty thousand trout being raised to stock a reservoir for fishermen were released in a suspected animal rights attack. The damage is estimated at £100,000 and would have required several people and a boat to manipulate the heavy nets comprising the pens.

January 20, 2005 Eugene, OR: Eleven people face domestic terrorism charges for a series of arsons in five Western states. The 65-count federal indictment was unsealed today and announced by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller. The charges are in connection with 17 incidents claimed by the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front in California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming from 1996 to 2001.Three of the eleven suspects are fugitives and are believed to have left the country. They are Joseph Dibee, Josephine Sunshine Overaker and Rebecca Rubin. The other eight are in custody: Chelsea Dawn Gerlach, Sarah Kendall Harvey, Daniel Gerard Mc Gowan, Sanislas Gregory Meyerhoff, Darren Todd Thurston and Kevin M. Tubbs. William Rogers committed suicide in jail. The indictment relates to attacks on the following sites:

• Oct. 28, 1996, at the U.S. Forest Service Detroit Ranger Station in Marion County, Ore.
• Oct. 30, 1998, at the U.S. Forest Service Oakridge Ranger Station in Lane County, Ore.
• July 21, 1997, at the Cavel West meat packing company in Deschutes County, Ore.
• Nov. 30, 1997, at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Facility in Harney County, Ore.
• June 21, 1997, at the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Wildlife Facility in Olympia, Wash.
• Oct. 11, 1998, at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse Holding Facility in Rock Springs, Wyo.
• Oct. 19, 1998, at the Vail Ski Facility in Vail, Colo.
• Dec. 27, 1998, at U.S. Forest Industries in Jackson County, Ore.
• May 9, 1999, at Childers Meat Co. in Lane County, Ore.
• Dec. 25, 1999, at the Boise Cascade office in Polk County, Ore.
• Dec. 30, 1999, at a Bonneville Power Administration high-tension power line tower near Bend, Ore.
• Sept. 6, 2000, at the Eugene Police Department West University Public Safety Station in Eugene, Ore.
• Jan. 2, 2001, at the Superior Lumber Co. in Douglas County, Ore.
• March 30, 2001, at Joe Romania Chevrolet Truck Center in Eugene, Ore.
• May 21, 2001, at Jefferson Poplar Farms in Columbia County, Ore.
• May 21, 2001, at the University of Washington Horticultural Center in Seattle.
• Oct. 15, 2001, at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse Facility in Litchfield, Calif.

January 19, 2006 Grants Pass, OR: FBI agents investigating a series of arsons claimed by ALF/ELF have arrested Jonathan Mark Christopher Paul, 39, on charges he helped firebomb the Cavel West horsemeat packing plant in Redmond on July 21, 1997. Suzanne Nicole “ India’’ Savoie, 28, remained at large. She was charged with serving as a lookout for the Jan. 2, 2001, firebombing of the Superior Lumber Co. lumber mill offices in Glendale. The two new suspects bring to nine the number of people charged in a series of arsons from 1996 to 2001 in Oregon and Washington. Two of the earlier suspects have been linked to the arson at Vail, Colorado ski resort, but no one has been charged.

January 18, 2006 Camano Island, WA: Ecoterrorists are suspected in an arson fire which gutted a $3million home under construction. A threatening message signed by the ELF was spray-painted on a pink bedsheet draped across the gate of the house.

January 14, 2006 Auburn, CA: FBI agents arrested three people planning attacks on behalf of ELF on unspecified power plants, cell towers, and U. S. Forest Service facilities at various locations in Northern California. Taken into custody were Eric Taylor McDavid, 28, of Foresthill, near Auburn; Zachary Jensen, 20, of Monroe, Wash.; and Lauren Weiner, 20, of Philadelphia. Court documents show alleged links to others who pled guilty to arson in firebomb attacks in Auburn and Amador counties.

January 13, 2006, United Kingdom: A report in the Times Higher Education Supplement states that data given to the national policing unit for domestic extremism show that violent attacks against animal research laboratories and their suppliers are spreading from the UK to other countries. The UK had 83 serious attacks last year. Much activity was focused on Oxford University, which confirmed this week that research funders, including charities, had become the latest targets in the campaign to halt building of its new animal research laboratory. Sweden had 55 violent actions reported. There were 21 attacks in the Netherlands, 18 in Italy, 14 in Switzerland and 12 in both Germany and Spain. Ten other countries were also on the hit list.

January 2, 2006 Oxford, England: ALF extremists claim to have vandalized the office of Oxford Architects, who are engaged the construction of a research laboratory at the University. They claim to have spray-painted the building, slashed tires and spray-painted a car, and glued locks. The claim on the directaction.info website included “ We must target professors, teachers, heads, students, investors, partners, supporters and ANYONE that dares to deal in any part of the University in any way. There is no time for debate and there is no time for protest, this is make or break time and from now on, ANYTHING GOES.”

December 23, 2005 Woodbury, NY: The Animal Defense League, Long Island reported an ALF claim of vandalism to the house of Hofstra University’s president. ALF activists claimed to have covered his house with spray-painted slogans, because the invited keynote speaker for the mid-year graduation ceremony is CEO of OSI Pharmaceuticals, and has ties to GlaxoSmithKline, customer of HLS. The claim concluded with threats of further action.

December 22, 2005 West Anstey, England: Animal rights extremists are suspected in the release of 100 boar from a farm. Police warn the animal could be dangerous and should not be approached, and motorists were being warned in case they strayed onto roads.

December 13, 2005 Tucson, AZ: Rodney Coronado and Matthew Crosier were convicted of one felony count and two misdemeanor counts related to their March 2004 disruption of a mountain lion hunt to deal with “problem lions” by the Arizona Fish and Game Department. Their intent was to foil the hunt by using mountain lion urine to confuse tracking dogs and to pull up snares set for the lions. The felony count was conspiracy to impede or injure and officer of the United States. Coronado is a convicted arsonist and well-known spokesman for radical animal rights and environmental causes.

December 8, 2005 Portland, OR: Six people have been arrested on federal indictments in connection with four arsons and the destruction of a Bonneville Power Administration tower dating back to 1998. The arrests are part of a continuing investigation of numerous arsons claimed by ALF/ELF. Chelsea Dawn Gerlach, 28, of Portland, Ore., was charged with conspiring to destroy an energy facility and destruction of an energy facility in the attack on the transmission tower. She faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. Two of the defendants - Stanislas Gregory Meyerhoff, 28, and Daniel Gerard McGowan, 31 - face up to life in prison if convicted of setting fires Jan. 2, 2001, at the Superior Lumber Co. in Glendale, Ore., and May 21, 2001, at the Jefferson Poplar Farm in Clatskanie, Ore. Damage from each fire exceeded $1 million. Kevin M. Tubbs, 36, and William C. Rodgers, 40, face up to 20 years each if convicted of a June 21, 1998, arson at the Animal and Plant and Health Inspection Services facility in Olympia, which caused $1.2 million in damage. Sarah Kendall Harvey, a 28-year-old student at Northern Arizona University, was arrested in Flagstaff after being charged with a Dec. 27, 1998, fire at U.S. Forest Industries in Medford, Ore. That fire caused an estimated $500,000 in damage.

December 7, 2005 Davis, CA: The Life Sciences Addition building on the campus of UC Davis was vandalized with painted slogans against genetically modified foods. Walls, doors, and refrigerators in at least 20 locations were defaced.

December 4, 2005 Meath, England: A frog exporter who provided frogs for biomedical research announced he is closing his business immediately, following an ALF attack. Acid was thrown on his car, and farm buildings painted with slogans. ALF said if he doesn’t retire, he will be a target for further attacks. "Until he ceases trading and all his equipment is given to animal welfarists for rescue use, he will remain a legitimate target," the group said.

December 3, 2005 London, England: The home addresses and private phone numbers of 30 senior personnel at the Bank of England were published on the Internet by animal rights activists calling themselves Badgers Unlimited. The website, which Yahoo has now removed, said "Without a bank account they (HLS) could not continue in business. The time is right to apply maximum pressure on the bank until they withdraw banking facilities for HLS." Police from high-tech crime units are investigating.

December 1, 2005 Oxford, England: Under tight security construction has resumed on Oxford University’s animal research laboratory, 16 months after the former contractors were intimidated into pulling out of the project. The animal rights group SPEAK said “ Oxford University is going to have a very, very strong fight on its hands. We have plans to identify the contractors and the builders and to inform them what it is they are building.” Robin Webb, press officer for the Animal Liberation Front, said: "Clearly, with what's happened since the proposals were originally floated, ALF activists will continue their campaign to stop the building of this lab. This may even increase their determination. And anything associated with Oxford University will be perceived as a legitimate target." The university said that if intimidation continued it could seek to tighten a High Court injunction that restricts protesters’ activities. It has been granted an exclusion zone, protecting university buildings and the homes of staff, students and contractors, after a campaign of criminal damage, trespass and threats. This included the posting of the home addresses and phone numbers of Oxford dons and government ministers on the internet. But intimidation has continued since the court order: a university boathouse was firebombed, and building companies have received threatening letters.

November 20, 2005 Hagerstown, MD: ELF claims to be behind an arson attack on a new subdivision. Four separate blazes destroyed one nearly completed townhouse, and damaged three others, at a loss of $250,000. An e-mail to the local newspaper said "Last night we, the Earth Liberation Front, put the torch to a development of Ryan Homes in Hagerstown, Maryland (off of Route 40, behind the Wal- Mart). We did so to strike at the bottom line of this country's most notorious serial land rapist. We warn all developers that the people of the Earth are prepared to defend what remains of the wild and the green. We encourage all who watch with sadness while developers sell out the future of us and our children to join us in resisting them in any and every possible way. The Ents are going to war." Rodney Coronado said the fires might have been prompted by the recent 60 Minutes report on ELF/ALF. "I think it's the work of people acting out of a sense of frustration and powerlessness against something they see as inevitable and that will inevitably destroy something they love," he said. "I consider them legitimate acts of resistance against the destruction of the planet."

November 20, 2005 Layhem, Suffolk, England: Hunt saboteurs broke into the Essex and Suffolk Hunt and set loose more than 80 hounds, and five horses. “Hunt scum” was spray-painted on the road and a rubbish bin and fencing set on fire. Gates were left open but no animals got out onto the road, and all were recovered.

November 17, 2005 Huntington, Long Island, NY: ALF activists claimed, on the Animal Defense League-Long Island website, to have vandalized the home and cars of the Lloyd Harbor mayor with spray-painted slogans against a proposed deer culling. They claim that the owner of one of the properties, where the deer thinning was to take place, faxed a message to ADL-LI saying they were postponing the cull..

November 15, 2005 Westhampton, Long Island, NY: ALF activists claimed to have vandalized and spray-painted slogans on the house and car of the CRO of Dalton Greiner, which holds stock in HLS in client portfolios. Their claim included repudiation of Jerry Vlasak and Rodney Coronado, both of whom had appeared on the November 13 edition of 60 Minutes titled “Burning Rage.” “As an ALF cell we need to take action to save innocent life whenever possible, and take all precautions necessary to avoid infringing on the safety of others. We as a cell are concerned by the rhetorical muddy waters being stirred up by armchair activists like Stephen Best and Jerry Vlasic. These individuals will never understand the ALF and their attempts to represent them in public are pathetic at best. They cannot rewrite the guide lines, period….So f**k post modernist, bad blazer wearing, womanizers and hollywood heart surgeons - we're taking it back.”

November 6, 2005 Baston, England: Lincolnshire police are investigating a six month campaign by SHAC activists against a man who works for United Parcel Services Supply Chain Solutions UK – a subsidiary of parcel firm UPS. The firm, the man states, has nothing to do with HLS and has no contract with them. His car had paint-stripper poured over it and his two dogs were burned by the solution left in puddles around the vehicle. Protestors have been outside the firm’s offices. Anonymous letters, purporting to be written by the parents of a child he supposedly abused, and detailing the fictional attacks, were sent to his neighbors. His car registration was used to trace his address by a SHAC sympathizer at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.

November 3, 2005 Guelph, Ontario, CAN: ELF graffiti was found on the walkway of the Cutten Club, after arson gutted the pro shop and caused minor damage to the clubhouse. The ELF signature raises the possibility that the arson may be linked to two fires in June that caused $25,000 in damage to a new Zellers store and to the Church of Our Lady, where ELF graffiti was also found.

October 31, 2005 Fairfield, Greenville and Hollowell, ME: Six buildings associated with Plum Creek Timber Co. were vandalized during the night. Three private homes belonging to managers of Plum Creek and three office buildings were splattered with orange paint and anti-Plum Creek slogans. At one home rocks were thrown through windows, leaving orange paints on carpets and siding. The activists also used animal feces, parts of a raccoon carcass, and a foul-smelling chemical. A historic home in Hallowell was also vandalized with painted graffiti. The vandals thought the home belonged to Plum Creek’s attorney, who lives next door. The coordinated crimes are the most extensive in a series of vandalism incidents aimed at Plum Creek since last spring, when the company proposed development of its timberlands around Moosehead Lake. The FBI and state police are investigating.

October 30, 2004 Ontario, CA: A suspicious device resembling a bomb, placed at the home of an Los Angeles County veterinarian, forced evacuation of twenty-four homes. An anonymous caller claimed the bomb was planted by the ALF. The FBI is investigating the incident as an act of animal-rights terrorism.

October 26, 2005 Chicago, IL: Cyrano's Bistrot and Wine Bar, a Chicago restaurant was vandalized the night after its chef, spoke against a proposed ban on foie gras at a city council committee meeting. Windows were shattered and splattered with a red liquid, and flower boxes pulled off the building and destroyed.

October 25, 2005 Alameda, CA: Animal rights activists pretending to deliver birthday balloons invaded the office of a biotech company, and stole a company roster of an office bulletin board. Just hours after the theft SHAC demonstrations took place at several homes in the Alameda, Oakland, and Piedmont area belonging to people whose names and addresses were on the roster.

October 13, 2005 Hove, East Sussex, England: Animal rights extremists boasted on the ALF website of using two incendiary devices to blow up a car at the home of widow of the British head of Roche, even though the man had died last year. The widow and her teenage son were in the house at the time. The statement on Biteback said "We have been keeping many senior personnel from HLS's customers and suppliers under intense surveillance. One was Alexander Grant, a senior director of Roche, who are a major customer of Huntingdon Life Sciences. We were planning an attack on Grant a few months ago but then realised (sic) that he had just died of a heart attack. In October we carried out the operation at Grant's address, planting two incendiary devices under an expensive four-wheel-drive, totally destroying it. People who sign ontracts with or deal with Huntingdon need to realise (sic) that your decisions will come back to haunt you for ever - even when you have gone."

October 4, 2005 Bozeman, MT: An ELF activist vandalized equipment at the construction site of the new Kenyon Noble Lumber and Hardware store. Damage to the construction equipment totaled about $3000 and ELF was spray-painted on the damaged equipment.

October 2, 2005 England: Threat from animal rights extremists (Animal Rights Militia – ARM) have forced nine companies to sever links to HLS. Most of the companies are small building firms, but they include Leapfrog Nurseries. Letters sent to the homes of the directors of seventeen companies said “The company you work for is working with Huntingdon Life Sciences. This is a disgusting and cowardly act. You have a choice. You can walk away from those sick monsters or you can personally face the consequences of your decision. Not only you but your family is a target. Sever your links with HLS within two weeks or get ready for your life and the lives of those you love to become a living hell." The letters also refer to the “victory” over Darley Oaks Farm. (August 28, 2005)

September 28, 2005 Peterborough, England: Activists calling themselves the “Animal Rights Militia” sent threatening letters to Leapfrog Day Nurseries, which forced them to stop providing child care vouchers to parents working at HLS. One letter said, "The company you work for is working with Huntingdon Life Sciences. This is a disgusting and cowardly act. You have a choice. You can walk away from those sick monsters or you can personally face the consequences of your decision. Not only you but your family is a target.... Sever your links with HLS within two weeks or get ready for your life and the lives of those you love to become a living hell."

September 28, 2005 Beaconsfield, England: ALF claimed responsibility for an explosive device left at the home of the corporate controller of GlaxoSmithKline, which does business with HLS. The device caused minor damage. The executive was away, but his wife and child were home. A posting on the ALF website read "We realise (sic) that this may not be enough to make you stop using HLS but this is just the beginning. We have identified and tracked down many of your senior executives, and also junior staff, as well as those from other HLS customers. Drop HLS or you will face the consequences."

September 24, 2005 Oxford, England: Animal rights activists attacked a sports pavilion at Corpus Christi College in protest of the University’s planned construction of a primate research laboratory. The device was disabled and little damage done. A website warning read, "We have spent 15 months researching you, and we know every weakness you have. We are stronger than you, we have more resolve than you and we never give up…If we have to destroy every bit of property you own, we will, in order to stop you inflicting your profit-driven cruelties on defenceless (sic) creatures. You cannot stop us, we are free to attack you at will, whenever and wherever we choose."

September 20, 2005 Los Angeles, CA: ALF activists attacked the home of the Los Angeles Animal Services General Manager. The claim on ALF’s website says "The animal liberation front has taken advice from our Commander in Chief to "smoke terrorists out of their holes." the target was Los Angeles number One terrorist Gordon Stuckey. Military Strength Smoke grenades were detonated on the floor of this animal killers abode. Sleep light..alf." The Fire Department responded to the incident. Another ALF communiqué disclosed that the veterinarian in charge of euthanizing animals at the Animal Services Department has endured late night visits by prostitutes, pizza deliverymen, taxis and gang members in recent days.

September 19, 2005 Vestfold, Norway: The Norwegian chapter of the ALF (Dyrenes Frigjøringsfront, DFF) has claimed responsibility for releasing 3,500 mink from a fur farm. The farmer and colleagues managed to capture 2000, with others being shot to prevent them from suffering in the wild.

September 12, 2005 Old Town, ME: Activist vandalism caused more than $30,000 worth of damage at the West Old Town Landfill. Graffiti, including the logo “ELF’ was spray-painted on buildings, vehicles, and heavy equipment. Tires were flattened, the console of a new tractor smashed, and keys broken off in every piece of large machinery. Additionally, basement windows of two buildings were broken and garden hoses turned on and put inside. An object thrown through one of the windows damaged a computer monitor, but the water was turned off before it reached files and computer equipment. All the locks were glued shut and the vandals also removed the Bangor Hydro fuses from the pole that powers the methane torch that burns off landfill gas and reduces the odor produced by the waste. Subcontractors working on the site a half-mile away found the damage when they went to leave and called the police. They were locked into the facility as the vandals had broken off a key in the lock of the main gate.

September 8, 2005 Los Angeles, CA: Animal rights activists have been targeting a high-ranking official in the LA Animal Services Department, blaming him for the LA policy of euthanizing strays in city shelters, despite a great reduction in numbers. Graffiti, stink bombs, menacing midnight phone calls and a bomb scare forcing an evacuation have happened in recent weeks. In August, the family was awakened at three am by two people dressed as mortuary workers saying they were trying to pick up a dead body. Activists picket in front of the house, with scurrilous signs, and information is posted on an ALF-affiliated website. Activists picketed the home of the former chief, until he quit the job.

September 7, 2005 New York, NY: HLS, trading in the US as Life Science Research Inc., announced that its listing on the New York Stock Exchange had been postponed at the request of the Exchange on the day trading was to begin. Less than an hour before the opening bell, Catherine Kinney, president of the NYSE, is understood to have told HLS executives that calls were received from the city’s financial community saying its security could be threatened by animal rights activists. An activist group called “Win Animals Rights” (WAR) had sent out an e-mail alert to 10,000 people, saying the NYSE was now “a primary focal point for this campaign” “WAR will be there every day” the e-mail said. The SHAC Web site has been listing the direct-dial office phone numbers and e-mail addresses of dozens of the NYSE's top officials. The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has launched an investigation into SHAC, and at its meeting in October will focus on on the recent decision by the NYSE to delay a listing of Huntingdon's shares.

September 7, 2005 Western ME: The Plum Creek Timber Co has been hit with a string of vandalism. The Fairfield office was vandalized with graffiti and damage. The Greenfield office was broken into and computers and other equipment was stolen. A top staff person’s car had the tires slashed and “Leave Maine” deeply scratched into a door. The same week a Plum Creek contractor had his equipment vandalized for the second time.

September 2, 2005 East Anstey, England: ALF activists damaged specially-designed fencing, and released 90 boar from their pens at a wild boar farm. The farmer was about to get about ninety percent of them back, but faces expensive repairs.

September 4, 2005 Gynedd, Wales: Animal rights activists poured paint-stripper on a car, slashed the tires, and sprayed graffiti on the garage door of the managing director of EuroDP, which has links to HLS. Phone numbers and addresses were posted on an extremist website. Receptionists at the company have had abusive phone calls, and there is a campaign of anonymous and threatening letters. The company is increasing security in response to the threats.

August 28, 2005 England: Following the announcement that the Halls would close their guinea pig farm, animal rights activists, while continuing to target the Halls, have drawn up a list of fifty diverse companies with connections to HLS to threaten. Couriers and even a bakery are listed. Names, numbers and e-mail addresses have been posted on the SHAC website. At least three of the targeted firms have terminated their contracts with HLS after being bombarded with phone calls and e-mails from SHAC activists.

August 23, 2005 Long Island, NY: ALF activists claimed, on their “animal defense” website to have vandalized the Manhasset Bay and Seawanhaka Corinthian yacht clubs, painting anti-HLS slogans on buildings and fences. The president of Carr Securities, which was making a market in HLS stock, is a member of both clubs. ALF further claimed, on its website, that Carr had stopped marketing the stock following the vandalism. This has not been confirmed by independent sources.

August 26, 2005 England: The executive director of a chemical company was targeted because one of his corporate shareholders had been a client of Huntingdon Life Sciences. "Since March 2003 myself, my company and associated companies and staff have received more than 10,000 emails, over 1,000 letters, over 6,000 phone calls. Some of the emails, letters and phone calls being very threatening in nature, including statements such as 'I'd happily go to prison for stabbing an animal abuser to death', 'I'll find you and f*** you up', 'this won't be over until I see your faces smashed into the bottoms of your coffins' and 'you are now the ALF [Animal Liberation Front] priority target'. There have been about 40 demonstrations at company facilities, four hoax bombs, including one at my home, five people have been wrongly accused of being convicted paedophiles, including myself. In my case, over 200 letters were posted to houses within a five-mile radius of my home making the allegation. There have also been over 35 visits to the homes of directors and employees. These usually take place in the middle of the night and may involve making loud noise with a siren to wake you and your neighbours or spray painting houses and or cars with graffiti. Our house and car have been spray-painted and there have been messages spray-painted on local roads giving my name and saying that I am a killer and that 'we know where you live' and 'the ALF are coming for you.”

August 25, 2005 Manawatu, New Zealand: Animal rights activists stole six huntaway dogs, a bitch and five two week old pups, some of which carry a fatal genetic disease that also strikes people and kills young children. The dogs were donated to the Massay University Veterinary school, which was working with the Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital in hopes of find a cure. The activists stole the records of the dogs medical treatment, claiming they were “breeding records” and sprayed the buildings with animal rights slogans. The bitch, an unaffected carrier, was to be returned to her home after the pups were weaned. Several of the puppies will have the full course of the disease and without treatment will waste away and die fairly quickly. Others may be carriers, which, if they survive to be bred, could spread the disease to other dogs.

August 24, 2005 Buchentrain, Switzerland: ALF activists claimed, on the directaction website, to have vandalized the home of a senior pharmaceutical executive with Roche. They claim to have paint-stripped his car, slashed the tires, and pained “drop HLS, animal killer, ALF” on the garage door.

July 29, 2005 Liverpool, England: The Big Issue magazine announced it will no longer take ads from Covance Pharmaceutical, following an assault on a street vendor by an animal rights activist, along with abusive e-mails sent to members of the magazine staff, a burglary, and attacks on buildings. Covance placed ads to recruit volunteers for clinical trials in the magazines. The magazine provides employment to the homeless.

July 27, 2005 Whatcom County, WA: Suspicious fires have damaged two homes under construction. The first caused $100,000 in damages. The second, a few days later, completely destroyed another home being built in the area. ELF has taken credit for other arsons in the area earlier in the year that police are investigating.

July 22, 2005 Long Branch, NJ: Animal rights activists spray-painted a house and car and glued their locks shut early in the morning in Long Branch. Later that day, two activists were taken into custody near Hoffman-LaRoche Pharmaceuticals in Nutley NJ, with paint on their hands that matched the graffiti “puppy killers” painted on a fence at the plant, and allegedly gave fake identities to the police. Items in their car linked them to the Long Branch case as well. The activists, Janice Angelillo and Nicholas Cooney, have ties to SHAC and the Philadelphia group “Hugs for Puppies.” SHAC has begun targeting employees of Hoffman-LaRoche which does business with HLS. The people in the vandalized Long Beach house have no affiliation with HLS or related companies.

July 15, 2005 San Carlos, CA: An ALF video posted on the Internet shows hooded activists spray-painting slogans and smashing windows at Bachem Laboratories. A warning posted on the Net said ‘"Bachem -- this is only the beginning. All of the security, cameras and burglar alarms that you can buy will not save you now. Sever any and all ties to HLS. If not, things can only get worse. See you soon!"’

July 8, 2005 Lavacolla, Spain: Activists of the “Frente de Liberacion Animal” claim, on the directaction website to have broken into a fur farm and released 35,000 mink. Most of the mink did not leave the farm and all but about 500 were recovered.

July 8, 2005 Success, NH: A half million dollars worth of equipment was destroyed in an arson attack against a Canadian contractor working land owned by T.R.Dillon Logging. There has been continuing vandalism at the site in the past year. Recently, an activist was convicted with the New Years Day arson of logging equipment and an office trailer owned by Dillon Logging.

July 5, 2005 Oxford, England: An arson attack by animal rights activists destroyed an Oxford University boathouse and boats worth several thousands of pounds. According to information gained by the Thames Valley and Oxford University police the attack was in defiance of the new Serious Organized Crime and Police Act, and against the University’s planned animal research laboratory.

June 23, 2005 Bloomberg, UK: Canaccord Capital Inc. has resigned as stock broker for Phytopharm Pic, a UK biotech company, after animal rights activists firebombed a car belong to a Cannaccord director on May 19. The director, his wife and children were asleep when the bomb went off and the car, in the garage, caught fire. Phytopharm’s former partner, Yamanouchi Pharmaceuticals, is an HLS partner. Phytopharm makes new medicines for animals as well as people. The ALF website said, "Canaccord are HLS customer Phytopharm’s biggest shareholders and have raised £10 million for them. Bad mistake. If you support or raise funds for any company associated with HLS, we will track you down, come for you and destroy your property by fire …get out of Huntingdon Life Sciences or see your share price crash and your supporters’ property go up in flames." Some 42 of the 113 suppliers that cut ties in 2004 with drug companies and others that use animals in research reported doing so in the last quarter of the year compared with 26 in the third quarter, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry said.

June 21, 2005 Philadelphia, PA: Five animal rights activists protesting at the BIO2005 convention face criminal charges after a police officer collapsed and died in a melee as the activists tried to gain access to the convention. A Canadian is facing charges of aggravated assault against the dead officer and another policeman. All five activists are charged with resisting arrest, conspiracy, and disorderly conduct.

June 16, 2005 Newton-Linford, UK: A family escaped unhurt when ALF fanatics left an explosive device in their carport. The wick had been lit, but had gone out. The family had been targeted before, with car tires slashed and ALF graffiti painted on their house. A former owner worked for a UK pharmaceutical company. The current owners have no ties to animal testing.

June 15, 2005 San Cesareo, Italy: ALF activists claim to have broken into a mink farm and released 2000 mink.

May 27, 2005: Richland Township, PA: ALF activists vandalized the Peonyland Nursery, whose owners were proposing to build a kennel to house 500 research monkeys. Activists broke into two greenhouses, and destroyed 1000 tree peonies, including rare ones. Paint-stripper was poured on two vehicles, and graffiti spray-painted on buildings and greenhouses, with such slogans as ''F--- with primates, get f---ed by us. ALF''; ''the ALF is watching''; and ''this will just be the start.'' An anonymous e-mail sent to the press stated the group “'entered several greenhouses and completely trashed them, dumping hundreds and hundreds of bushes and making a mess of the place. We also poisoned over a hundred planted bushes - have fun finding out which ones… 'drop your plans for a primate prison.'' And ''if you imprison so much as one monkey to sell to a lab we will make you pay dearly. We are watching you .'' Some of the tree peonies destroyed were unique and priceless, and were to be given to the Smithsonian.

May 25, 2005 Dorset, UK: Animal activists claim to have destroyed a pheasant pen, feeders, and shooting platform.

May 22, 2005 Aspen, Co: “ELF” and other slogans were spray-painted on three vehicles and the wall of the Aspen Ice Garden.

May 20, North Yorkshire, England: An arson attack caused damages over one million pounds to an abattoir. Three hundred sheep were rescued from the flames, and taken to another facility for slaughter. Rebuilding will take the rest of the year. North Yorkshire police are tracing possibly links to animal rights activists in their investigation.

May 17, 2005 Harrogate, UK: In an e-mail to an activist website, ALF activists claim to have vandalized the home of the Vice President of Toxicology for Covance Laboratories and the head of Animal House Operations for Covance. Slogans were painted on the mailbox, driveway, and main road. The e-mail includes Covance Company and personal credit card and bank account numbers, as well as threats of future attacks.

May 17, 2005 Fair Oaks, CA: Several SUVs and trucks were spray-painted with “ELF” and “polluter”, and many also had their tires slashed. A short distance away “bomb the White House” was found spray-painted on a real estate sign. FBI, Secret Service, and a joint terrorism task force are investigating, and trying to find out if the two attacks were related.

May 9, 2005 Laurel Hollow, NY: The wife of an executive of Forest Laboratories was followed to her workplace, where credit cards were stolen from her car. They were used by ALF activists to buy $20,000 in Travelers Checks that were sent to a number of charities. A post on the ALF website stated "If we find out a dime of that money granted to those charities was taken back we will strip you bear (sic) and burn your (expletive). This is OUR insurance policy.” The family has been attacked before, with graffiti painted on their house, and their phone number, license plates and bank accounts posted on the Internet. Two NY police departments and the FBI are investigating attacks on about 30 Forest Lab employees in the NY metro area. Attacks have moved from protests at homes to vandalism, theft, and threats. Forest Laboratories does business with Huntington Life Sciences.

April 27, 2005 Dorset, UK: A group calling itself the Lobster Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for destroying the fishing nets of a lobsterman on Easter Sunday. The group had attacked another lobsterman last summer, releasing his lobsters and damaging his boathouse.

April 26, 2005 Hollywood Hills, CA: Five animal rights activists were arrested after being caught breaking windows and defacing the property of an executive of Huntington Life Sciences.

April 20, 2005 Baton Rouge, LA: The FBI and Louisiana State University police are investigating the break-in, vandalism, and release of ten caged mice at a university biology lab. The activists broke in through a ventilation grid, broke windows, painted ALF slogan on walls, sprayed acetone on outside walls, and glued locks shut. The ALF website claimed the vandalism was done “in celebration of World Week for Animals in Laboratories.”

April 13, 2005 Sammamish, WA: ELF is suspected in a fire caused by an incendiary device at a home in the late stages of construction, causing about $100,000 worth of damage Another incendiary device, which did not go off, was discovered at another new house a few blocks away. A sign was found saying “Where are all the trees, burn, rapists, burn. ELF.” A third device was found March 3 in a home under construction in Redmond. Federal officials said the unexploded device in Sammamish is similar to the devices found in Snohomish County a year ago, which were firebombs made with two-liter bottles full of flammable liquid. The FBI and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms are investigating. (See April 21, 2004)

March 29, 2005 Hattiesburg, MS: The ALF “press office” reported that ALF activists vandalized a KFC restaurant, spray-painting slogans and damaging the order box speaker.

April 4, 2005 Burton, UK: In letters to the media, a group calling itself the Animal Rights Militia offered to return “one-sixth” of the remains of the 82 year old mother-in-law of a part-owner of Darley Oakes Farm, which raises guinea pigs for biomedical research. The woman’s body was stolen from her grave in October. Several known animal rights activists have been arrested and bailed but the body has not been found. The letter offered GPS coordinates for the exact location where they said the partial remains were buried in a plastic container. The letter stated, “"We would have returned Gladys had the Halls taken steps towards closing down, but they did nothing. The Halls have a choice. If they take steps now to close they may not have to see one of their family or a friend buried... by us. We have disposed of one body no problem, the next one will be easier.” (See October 8, 2004)

April 2, 2005 Bluffs, IL: ALF raiders broke into a fox farm and opened 58 pens containing females nursing litters or about to deliver. Breeding records were destroyed. All the foxes were recovered, one died, and the farm is faced with the challenge of matching mothers to the correct pups. Property damage is minor, but the extent of damage done to livestock won’t be known for several weeks. An ALF press release said the attack was in support of Peter Young, a recently captured fugitive implicated in attacks on several farms seven years ago.

March 16, 2005 Branston, England: A gasoline bomb was left on the doorstep of a house owned by the daughter of a part-owner of Darley Oaks Farm, which breed guinea pigs for biomedical research. Bomb disposal experts removed the device. Threatening letters had been received by the staff of the farm during the week.

March 6, 2005 Fair Oaks, CA: Vandals spray-painted ELF on several pickup trucks and SUVs. Police are investigating whether the Fair Oaks vandalism against the vehicles is connected with the firebombings and attempted arsons at new construction sites in the area over the last several months.

March 3, 2005 London, England: Heathrow and Manchester airports, air freight companies, and airport operators BAA are being targeted by a new group, Gateway to Hell, protesting the importation of animals for biomedical research. The group is closely linked to SHAC. Police are investigating a number of vandalism attacks by unknown assailants on the homes and vehicles of some BAA executives, which caused tens of thousands of dollars in damages. Graffiti spray-painted on the home of the finance director of BAA said “You are now a target for us. You will not win.” A director of UTI, A freight-forwarding company, was attack the same night and UTI directors received threatening letters at their homes warning of “more visible signs of action” if the firm didn’t stop dealing with HLS. (don’t know if you want to leave this in…As a result, UTI has said it will no longer do business with HLS.)

February 19, 2005 Chino Hills, CA: Animal rights activists vandalized the home of the chief veterinarian for the city of Los Angeles. They threw rocks through windows, and left behind fliers with the veterinarian’s photo, accusing her of animal cruelty. ALF is suspected in this incident as well as prior threats against the veterinarian and other employees of the LA City Animal Shelter.

February 18, 2005 Albuquerque, NM: The FBI suspects eco-terrorism in the arson of a home under construction. There have been billboards targeted with graffiti against development of the area.

February 15, 2005 Auburn, CA: A fifth firebomb was found and safely dismantled at the Department of Motor Vehicle offices. The first three firebombs were aimed at developments, the last two at government establishments. The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating all five, two of which have been claimed as the work of ELF. (See February 7 and January 12 articles).

February 14, 2005 United Kingdom: An animal rights group calling itself “Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD) against the Fur and Vivisection Industry” launched a Denial of Service attack against seven organizations in the fur industry. They are attempting to crash computer servers by flooding them with e-mail, thanks to new software that automatically sends e-mails from chat rooms each time a new message is typed.

February 13, 2005 Carson and Torrence, CA: ALF claimed responsibility for two more attacks on fast-food restaurants. For the second time in one week, windows were smashed and graffiti including “ALF” and “McKillers” spray painted at the Torrence McDonalds. The Carson KFC sustained broken windows and slogans including “KFC Kills” and a misspelled statement “Until the slaughter stops, neither will we.” Damage was estimated at $20,000. This makes at least five attacks in the area in the last three months.

February 13, 2005 Auburn, CA: Eco-terrorism may be behind a firebomb placed at the foot of the Placer County courthouse. The follows the arrest of Ryan Lewis, a suspect charged with attempted arson of an office building in Auburn and arson of an apartment building in Sutter Creek. The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating.

February 7, 2005 Sutter Creek, CA: An early morning arson at a new apartment complex may be the work of radical environmental activists. Graffiti saying “We will win – ELF” was found at the site. There were seven individual fires, set off by seven incendiary devices. Four of the apartments suffered direct damage, others were damaged by fires set in halls and by smoke damage. Only two of the apartments were occupied and no one was injured. An FBI task force is investigating these fires along with the firebombs recently found at the construction sites of an office building in Auburn and a new subdivision in Lincoln.

February 6, 2005 Torrance, CA: Animal rights activists smashed windows and glass doors and spray-painted slogans at a McDonalds restaurant. A burglar alarm alerted police around 4:30 am. “McMurder Killers” and “ALF” were painted on a window. it was similar to attacks in the South Bay and Hollywood Hills within the last three months. Since November, vandals have struck at least three other times at McDonald's restaurants — including once at the same Torrance franchise. Each time, they shattered windows, spray-painted the letters "ALF" and wrote slogans such as "Don't feed your kids McKillers," "Stop McKiller" and "We won't sleep until the slaughter ends."

January 20, 2005 San Luis, CA: ALF activists cut through a 500’ segment of 8’ high fence at the GNK ranch and released a heard of European fallow deer. The owner, who sells venison at farmer’s markets, was able to collect and corral most of the herd. The claim posted on an activist website read “"Freedom for these creatures -- for whom death is a certainty -- was a simple and unskilled operation. We encourage compassionate people everywhere to locate farms in their area and tear down their walls. For the liberation of the helpless we will strike, A.L.F."

January 12, 2005 Auburn, CA: Five incendiary devices were found in an office building under construction. Devices of the same type were discovered in an upscale subdivision in near-by Lincoln on December 27. Official stated the firebombs were capable of extensive damage. Graffiti found on the Lincoln homes included “U will pay” and “Enjoy the world as it is – as long as you can.” In a letter sent to the Auburn Journal on January 18, ELF claimed responsibility, and warned of more terrorist attempts to come – "We are setting a new precedent, where there will be at least one or more actions every few weeks," it read. The Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating.

January 1, 2005 Hever, Kent, England: Seven incendiary devices believed to be display-strength rockets were found on the ground where the Old Surrey Bristow and West Kent Hunt was meeting. Members of the hunt smelled burning and uncovered the set, time-delay fuses. West Kent police extinguished the fuses and are investigating. Over ninety horses were taking part in the hunt, including children on ponies, and there were many people on foot in the area, along with cars and horse-boxes. Graeme Worsley, joint master of the hunt, said: "If you have a firework going off under a horse and its rider you are talking about a potential fatality. These people have a blatant disregard for the safety of anyone, horses or people. It is terrorism, it is nothing to do with animal welfare." The group has been attacked before by hunt saboteurs throwing fireworks and harassing the hunt and hunt followers.

December 30, 2005 Seaquest, FL: SHAC activists claim on the Animal Liberation Press Office website that they broke into the offices of Seaboard Securities and emptied a file cabinet and smashed computer monitors and a TV. On the website they stated “Here's a message to Kevin , Dennis, Cristian, Adam, Guy and the rest of the Seaboard Securities staff: we now know where you live; we will not hesitate to take this fight to your doorstep if you continue to do business with Huntingdon Life Sciences.” The activists further claim that the break-in has caused Seaboard to stop marketing HLS stock.

December 26, 2004 Sylmar, CA: The home of the public information officer of the Los Angeles city Animal Services Department was spray-painted with slogans, including “ALF has eyes on you” and “Resign (expletive).” Her photo and office location and phone number were posted on a website affiliated with ALF, along with those of other Animal Services employees. They are listed under the heading “Players/Targets” which includes images of a target, bullet holes, and ammunition for rifles. The apartment of another Animal Services employee was also vandalized recently.

December 25, 2004 Los Gatos, CA: Eco-terror is suspected in an arson attack which destroyed eight large vehicles – five trucks, two SUVs, and a van at a Chevrolet dealer. The vehicles were singled out though there were smaller cars which were more accessible. A similar case at a nearby Hummer dealer last year remains unsolved.

December 13, 2004 Iowa City, IA: Seashore Hall was again vandalized, with bulletin boards ripped from walls, papers scattered, and food ground into carpets. Police are withholding more information, but at this time don’t know if the vandalism is linked to the earlier attack or is a “copy cat” crime.

November 29, 2004 New Orleans, LA: Animal rights activists attacked a magazine store, etching the windows with acid and causing $6000 worth of damage. That same morning a store selling fur was vandalized, with “fur is ugly” etched on their windows, which will cost $20,000 to replace.

November 28, 2004 Sandal, Wakefield, England: Activists painted the letters “ALF” on the front of a home formerly owned by a man whose company dealt with waste from research labs. The address was posted on an activist list, and the current owners, one newly diagnosed with cancer and who have no links to animal research, have been hounded by protestors since they moved in. They are pleading with animal rights activists to leave them alone.

November 24, 2004 Los Angeles, CA: ALF activists caused three incidents of vandalism in the LA area recently. Two McDonalds were targeted, with windows shattered and ALF slogans "Don't feed your kids McKillers," "Stop McKiller" and "We won't sleep until the slaughter ends" spray-painted on walls. Police believe the same group vandalized the home of an executive linked to animal research. They broke windows, threw a smoke bomb into the garage, and spray-painted ALF on the house.

November 13, 2004 Iowa City, IA: The FBI is investigating extensive damage from vandalism at Spense Laboratories and Seashore Hall at the University of Iowa. The vandalism took place in laboratories on locked floors used by the psychology department for animal research. An unknown number of research rats, mice and pigeons were taken or released, over 30 computers and offices were damaged, and hazardous chemicals were dumped. HAZMAT teams from the National Guard were deployed to determine what chemicals were spilled. Until their work was completed and the buildings rendered safe, investigators couldn’t enter. Damage is in the tens of thousands of dollars, and many research projects conducted over months and years have been ruined. In a long e-mail to the media and the Animal Defense League, ALF claimed responsibility for the vandalism and described what they had done to the labs. Seven researchers were listed as targets, and the e-mail concluded with their contact information, including the names of their spouses, home addresses, home and cell phone numbers and personal e-mail accounts. The activists made a video-tape of themselves as they vandalized, and sent the tape to media outlets. Parts of it have aired on national TV.

October 17, 2004 Burton, Staffordshire, England: Animal rights fanatics have threatened to dig up the remains of a second person connected to Darley Oaks guinea pig farm. A letter to an elderly cleaner, who has worked at the farm, contained threats to desecrate the grave of her husband. The letter was intercepted by the police who routinely open the mail to the Hall family and people connected with them. Animal rights extremists have also sent hate mail claiming they are in possession of the remains, stolen earlier this month, of the mother of one of the owners of the farm. They further stated that they will not return the remains of Gladys Hammond until the Hall family stop breeding guinea pigs for medical research.

October 12, 2004 Long Island, NY – Letter of Intimidation.

October 10, 2004 Garrett County, Maryland: A group called “The Institute for Public Safety” sent a mass mailing of postcards to landowners in the county, suggesting that 40 percent of bear hunters are alcoholics, drug addicts or mentally unstable. The chairman of the group admitted they made up the statistic, and that they planned to mail more cards to landowners of the other county in the hunt area. Several animal rights groups have sued to stop Maryland’s bear hunt.

October 10, 2004 Philadelphia, PA: A major highway connecting the city to its western suburbs was shut down for several hours during rush hour as police and FBI bomb squads dealt with a metal box, with the letters ELF painted on the front, that was attached to an electricity transmission tower.

October 8, 2004 Yoxall, Staffordshire, England: Police suspect animal rights activists for desecrating and removing most of the remains from the grave of an 82 year old woman, whose family breeds guinea pigs for medical research. The Hall family, who run the breeding farm, local villagers, and others with connections to them have been under attack by animal rights activists for five years. They have been suffered hate mail, malicious phone calls, hoax bombs, a pedophile smear campaign and arson attacks. Local businesses have been forced to stop dealing with the family, cars and homes have been vandalized, and villagers terrorized by night visits from activists. Police are investigating, and state that at least two people were involved in the desecration. The Animal Liberation Front praised it. While denying responsibility, a spokesman said: "This is direct action on an inanimate being. Nobody has been harmed. If this stunt does not get that farm closed, maybe the next one will."

October 3, 2004 Grand Rapids, MI: The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus train was vandalized by animal rights activists. Parking booths and a glass door were damaged, and graffiti painted on the train. Police, working with the FBI, are withholding the name of the animal rights group which is taking credit for the vandalism.

October 3, 2004 Melbourne, Australia: Activists from Animal Liberation Victoria crashed the RSPCA’s formal ball, and threw red paint over RSPCA’s national president, Hugh Wirth while shouting “The RSPCA has blood on its hands.”. One protestor got up on stage and spoke against the RSPCA’s business with Pace Farms, Australia’s largest egg producer. He was removed by security guards, and the other protestors were escorted out. Dr. Wirth will be pressing assault charges.

September 20, 2004 Penrith, Hale, Altrincham, UK: Residents in these areas have received bogus letters, some purporting to come from “a concerned mother” stating that a named individual was a pedophile, and “assaulted her daughter.” In Hale and Altrincham about 180 letters have been mailed over three weeks. In Penrith, the person named has also had extensive damage to his car. The letters are part of a campaign by animal rights activists targeting employees of companies linked to biomedical research.

September 12, 2004 London, England: The (London) Times obtained a five page “hit list”, dated July 2004, that was circulated among animal rights extremists against the use of animals in biomedical research. More than 150 named individuals, including 21 children, are targeted for violent attacks, harassment, and intimidation. The list includes home addresses and phone numbers of 87 employees of Huntington Life Sciences and companies connected to it, 47 employees’ wives, and 21 children. The document gives concrete suggestions for many kinds of attacks, and further gives advice on avoiding detection for extremists seeking more violent forms of protest.against the people listed. The document states “Whatever you do, just do it and show them no mercy…make these perverts suffer…You can be as extreme as you like…the possibilities are endless…”

September 9, 2004 Runcorn, England: Poison-pen letters pushed through doors and posted in public, naming neighbors as pedophiles and giving graphic details of a fictional sex act, have been found in the district. The false claims urge the recipient to confront the individual named and “let him know you know,” and are being made against individuals known to be targeted by SHAC.

September 8, 2004 Prestbury, Macclesfield, Alderley Edge, England: Nineteen company directors of Emerson Developments Holdings Ltd. have been victims of poison pen letters and attacks of criminal vandalism to their homes and cars. Last week letters were sent to neighbors of one director, calling him a pedophile. The directors have received threatening letters. An Internet posting, purportedly from ALF, said, "We want Emerson to kick out Yamanouchi. We will not let up until our aim is achieved…We know where you are but you won't know when we are coming back; we do not let go ever.” Emerson has been targeted because it leases property to Yamanouchi Pharmaceuticals, a customer of Huntington Life Sciences.

September 5, 2004: East Peckham, England: Animal Rights activists vowed to launch ten “terror attacks” a night across Britain. An ALF spokesman at a “training camp” for AR activists to learn “direct action” said “Ten attacks a night would be an absolute minimum… Think of the number of butcher shops: at least a couple of windows are already being broken every night and then you have people spraying graffiti on cars to those targeting employees of Huntingdon Life Sciences.” There have been reports of at least six serious incidents in the last ten days, including attacks on cars and other property of people connection with GlaxoSmithKline, HLS, and a farm raising guinea pigs for research.

July 30, 2004 Austin, TX: Tejas Securities, a US marker maker, has stopped trading shares in Life Science Research, the company that owns Huntington Life Sciences after directors, executives, analysts, and traders were bombarded with abusive e-mails.

July 30, 2004 Charlotte, NC: Activists vandalized a fleet of utility trucks owned by Utiliquest. All the trucks were marked with “ELF” and all had their tires slit.

July 30, 2004 Dorset, England: The “Lobster Liberation Front’ claims responsibility for two attacks on a Dorset lobsterman. Activists seriously damaged his boat, set his catch loose, and splashed red paint over his house. Weeks earlier the same boat, boathouse, and lobster pots were vandalized. An anonymous e-mail on an Animal Rights website threatened “war against the industry” and “real damage must begin” if lobster fishing continues. Welsh police are investigating similar attacks in Wales.

July 21, 2004 Chetsey, Surrey, England: Following a firebomb attack by ALF activists, RMC group, the world’s biggest concrete company, pulled out of building a biomedical research laboratory at Oxford University. The arson caused ₤150,000 worth of damage as incendiary bombs destroyed the control center, three trucks, and a crane. It took firefighters three hours to control the blaze. A message on the ALF website said: "This attack is a warning to RMC that collaboration in animal torture at Oxford or anywhere else will not be tolerated, and a further warning to all involved in building the Oxford laboratory to expect similar ruthless treatment." RMC group said the violence was “putting lives at risk.” RMC was sub-contracted to Montpellier, the lead construction contractor that pulled out of the project on July 19, following animal rights actions against its directors and shareholders.

July 19, 2004 Gloucestershire, England: Montpellier construction group has pulled out of a contract to build a biomedical research laboratory at Oxford University. Walter Lily, its subsidiary, is abandoning the project due to a campaign by animal rights activists, which included hoax letters to shareholders urging them to sell their shares or face actions from animal rights activists. Directors have had paint poured on their cars, threatening late-night phone calls, and graffiti painted on their houses. A local businessman, working for another firm in the same group as Walter Lily, received an anonymous, threatening letter, in which activists promised to forge criminal records and post them to hundreds of his neighbours. It said the records would allege "a string of sexual offences committed by yourself throughout your adult life".

July 7, 2004 Provo, UT: The letters “ALF” were found in seven locations at Brigham Young University’s agriculture center, near a recycling building where firefighters put out a suspicious fire. Fire damaged a corner of the building, and two small tractors, and is estimated to be at least $30,000. No animals were in the building. This was the third incident at BYU attributed to ALF in the last six weeks. Someone broke into a barn and released animals, and later equipment researchers were using to test the breeding habits of fish was removed from an aquarium.

July 3, 2004 Bournemouth, England: ALF activists vandalized equipment of construction company RMC - targeted because the company supplied concrete for a new research lab being built at Oxford University. Tractors, bulldozers, and a crane were severely damaged in the raid.

June 22, 2004 London, England: Investors in the construction group Montpellier are being attacked because it is the main contractor for a primate research center at Oxford University. Montpillier directors’ vehicles have been vandalized, and the staff at a company supplying a small amount of concrete have been targeted with letter bomb hoaxes and late-night phone calls. Investors in Montpellier received letters representing “Stop the Oxford Torture Lab” asking them to sell their holdings, saying that if they didn't sell within a month their details will be published on the Internet. The letter said “This will prompt activity by the animal rights movement to persuade these shareholders to sell.” Montpellier share value has fallen by one-fifth.

June 14, 2004 West Jordan, UT: ELF claimed responsibility for an arson fire that consumed the Stock Building Supply lumberyard, with damages estimated at 1.5 million dollars. The three-alarm fire was one of the biggest they ever fought, said the town’s firefighters, and it burned dangerously close to businesses in a nearby strip mall. The letters ELF were spray-pained on the main building and a truck at the scene. An ELF-signed fax sent to a local radio station mentioned four future targets, including an SUV dealership and another lumber company. Two years ago the ELF calling-card was found at an vandalized construction site in the town.

June 13, 2004 Rockville, MD: Police believe three arson fires, involving a pick-up truck, SUV, and a Mexican restaurant are connected. The area around the restaurant was also vandalized. Damage is estimated at $48,000.

May 28, 2004 Prairie City, OR: Activists damaged five pieces of logging equipment use in a timber salvage operation. Metal shavings were poured into the engines, fuel and hydraulic systems. Repairs will take weeks, cost $100,000 and cause expensive production delays at lumber mills. FBI has joined the investigation, which bears the hallmarks of eco-terrorism.

May 8, 2004 Oakland PA: Animal activists protesting the use of foie gras toppled an obelisk and smashed a statue of the Venus de Milo that were in front of an Oakland restaurant after the owners refused to take foie gras off the menu.

April 21, 2004, Long Island, NY: The ALF claims to have broken into Forest Laboratories to steal data, documents and blueprints relating to a new facility, as part of their actions for World Week for Animals in Laboratories. Photos said to be samples from the theft were posted online at BiteBack magazine. There has been no confirmation of the break-in and theft in the news media.

April 21, 2004 USA: SHAC America, as part of their involvement in World Week for Animals in Laboratories, has posted reports from "anonymous activists" on their website describing harassing visits to various targeted company offices and at employees' homes. Descriptions of the visits and taunting messages were posted online , but have not been reported in the news media.

April 21, 2004 Snohomish, WA: Two new homes were destroyed and another heavily damaged in an arson attack. At second construction site workers found plastic bottles filled with flammable liquid and a threatening note. An attempted arson was found at a third site, where a fire had started and apparently gone out. Officials said the note, which mentioned ELF, apparently came from an eco-terrorist group and the incendiary devices were similar to ones used by the ELF. Total damage was over a million dollars.

April 21, 2004 Monrovia, CA: Animal rights activists spray-painted the historic Upton Sinclair house with slogans of "Puppy killers," "Murderers," " ALF," and "you can't hide." Protesters dressed in black, some with skull masks, chanted animal rights slogans over a bullhorn, targeting the homeowner, an executive with Sumitomo Corporation which has ties to HLS. The chants were personal - "(You) are a sick pervert that enjoys animal abuse" and ".we know where you sleep at night." Earlier they had protested at a local Petco, and at another Sumitomo employee's home. A recording at the Animal Defense League office announces many protests this week, which animal rights activists call the "World Week for Animals in Laboratories." Some protests are scheduled at homes of various executives - one called "UCLA monkey killer,"- and at Sumitomo's offices.

April 20, 2004 Elk Creek, Vancouver, CA: Eco-terrorists threatened the lives of loggers by spiking hundreds of trees. Workers found more than 100 spikes in logs going through saw mills there. Demonstrators had stage a major effort in October to try to stop logging in the area.

April 11, 2004 Carral, Spain: Animal extremists bored holes in the wall of a mink farm barn allowing 6,500 mink to escape. Eight hundred are still loose, and five hundred were found dead. Graffiti saying "For a life at liberty" signed ALF, was scrawled on a barn wall.

April 10, 2004 Roxborough, PA: Four beagle puppies and numerous rodents were stolen from the Walter Biddle High School of Agriculture Sciences. The thieves, suspected to be animal rights activists, left a message spray painted on the walls of the new kennel reading "Go experiment on yourselves. We're free - The Animals." The school doesn't conduct animal experiments, and the animals were used to teach animal care and husbandry. Addendum: Animal rights activists have have claimed responsibility for the theft. The claim was made, in a long note posted on an anarchist/activist website, as part of the animal rights "World Week for Animals in Laboratories," and accused the school of many abuses. Activists state all the animals will be placed in "loving homes."

March 29, 2004 Lake Oswego, OR: Animal activists vandalized the office building of Sumitomo Corporation, which is affiliated with Huntingdon Life Science (HLS. Red paint was splashed around the building, and graffiti stated " SUMITOMO DUMP HLS." In an anonymous online claim activists warned, "Paint today. Tomorrow- who knows? Hells coming to rip off the doors of your privileged heaven." Sumitomo has been the target of numerous attacks by SHAC.

March 24, 2004 Charlotte, NC: Eco-terrorists are suspected in more than a dozen arsons that have destroyed or heavily damaged expensive homes under construction in suburban neighborhoods. Authorities are asking the public for help in tracking down the arsonists and builders are being encouraged to hire security firms to protect homes under construction.

March 9, 2004 Kitzbuhel, Austria: A protester set fire to a woman's mink coat while she was wearing it. Police suspect lighter fluid was used to ignite the fur. Patrons in a bar realized the back of the coat was burning, and extinguished the fire before the woman was injured. The coat was destroyed in the attack, and the culprit has not been caught.

March 5, 2004 Bloomington, IN: Nine SUVs were vandalized in one twenty-four hour period. Their windshields were ruined by acid that permanently etched the glass causing thousands of dollars worth of damages.. The police suspect ELF activists.

March 5, 2004 York, England: Paul LeBoutillier was sentenced to five years for making harassing phone calls to Huntingdon Life Sciences shareholders and to HLS affiliate Covance Company employees.

March 3, 2004 Staffordshire, England: Staff and managers of Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries and Green King, two pub companies, have been threatened and harassed by animal rights activists, because the Hall family, owners of Darley Oaks Farm, which breeds guinea pigs for research, frequents these pubs. In response to the threats, as well as thousands of e-mails, and 1300 phone calls, the managers have asked the Hall family to stop using their pubs, to protect both their own safety and that of the pubs' staff and other customers. Steven Oliver, managing director of W $ BD's Union Pub Company said "The threat was of such a serious nature that we felt we had to act." Copies of the letters to the Halls were sent to the activist group, Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs, whose website targets companies supplying or used by the Hall family. Other pubs in England have been targeted by animal rights activists because the pubs were believed to support hunting.

March 2, 2004 Scotland: A group calling itself "Badgers Unknown" posted the names, homes addresses, and phone numbers of over one hundred UK celebrities on a website under the heading "Celebrity Bloodsports Scum", urging activists to carry out firebomb attacks. The Countryside Alliance, a group supporting hunting and fishing, whose officers were included in the list, was able to get the website removed from one Internet service provider, only to have it reappear elsewhere.

February 17, 2004 North Lima, OH: Vandals broke windows in a construction trailer, sprayed a fire extinguisher and scratched the initials "ELF" on the side of a piece of construction equipment at the construction site of a new showroom for a fireworks company.

February 13, 2004 - United Kingdom: Animal rights activists are targeting mothers and mothers-in-law of judges who have banned the activists from harassing companies linked to biomedical research. Home addresses and phone numbers have been posted on a website, as well as home details of the directors of a company linked to HLS. The website states "They are not immortal. They don't live in fireproof homes."

February 8, 2004 Milford Sound Fjord, New Zealand: An unknown saboteur connected a hose to a boat's diesel tank, pouring fuel into the water at a World Heritage fjord site. The site is home to a rare species of penguin and a major tourist attraction. Officials said that the 3,400 gallon fuel spill was intentional and "eco-terrorism and economic sabotage."

February 7, 2004 Charlottesville, VA: ELF claimed responsibility of an attack on the construction site of a new shopping center. Two trucks and a piece of heavy machinery were torched, and glass and gauges were broken in all the trucks and bulldozers on the site. The owner says it will cost $220,000 to replace the ruined track hoe and doesn't know if the burned trucks can be repaired. A banner left on the site read "Your construction = long term destruction - ELF"

January 22, 2004 Fayettville, AR: Five Hummers were vandalized. The letters ELF were spray-painted on the vehicles, tires were slashed and windows broken.

January 13, 2004 Richmond, VA: Three men claiming to belong to ELF pled guilty to federal charges of "conspiracy to destroy by fire." Adam Blackwell, John Wade, and Aaron Linas vandalized construction equipment, MacDonalds and Burger King restaurants, and tried to destroy a crane. They etched anti-SUV slogans on 25 vehicles at a Ford dealership. They face sentences of up to five years, and must pay restitution of over $200,000.

December, 2003 California: During the holiday season, some Chiron employees and their families received at their homes, through the mail, a box with coal, dog feces and a card that read "May your violence against the animals come back to haunt you in the new year! If you think that gift is bad just wait to see what Elves all across the USA have in store for you in the days to come!"

December 24, 2003 Stockholm, Sweden: A package of lamb and a letter from "Animals Liberation Front" (sic) claiming that meat had been poisoned in nine Stockholm supermarkets was left at the TT news agency. The agency also received a phone call taking credit for the action and stating, " We will not undertake any action that could physically injure people, but economically we will injure them greatly." A similar threat was made against a supermarket in Upsala in November. No poisoned meat was found there.

December 23, 2003, Vancouver, Canada: Safeway is warming shopper to check their turkeys after receiving three threatening letters from an animal rights group. Activists claim to have thawed several frozen turkeys and injected them with arsenic. This is the fourth time in ten years that animal rights activists claim to have tampered with holiday turkeys in British Columbia.

December 19, 2003 Norfolk, UK: Activists from VIVA broke into sheds at several turkey farms owned by Bernard Matthews. They claimed their videos showed dead and injured bird, however, the owner of the farms blamed the activists for causing the birds to panic.

December 12, 2003 Castel di Sangro, Italy: ALF criminals raided a mink farm and opened cages. ALF's e-mail states, "This is the fourth successful mink liberation in 2003."

November 18, 2003 Portland, Australia: Animal rights activists contaminated sheep feed with a "shredded, ham-type material" to make 50,000 sheep unsuitable for shipment to Muslin countries. The activists are protesting Australia's live export trade. The sheep may have to be euthanized, because under Australian law, sheep fed animal products are unfit for human consumption. It's unclear how many of the 50,000 animals were exposed to the tainted feed. Police said they had arrested a 40-year-old man in connection with the incident.

November 14, 2003 Burton-on Trent, England: Army bomb disposal experts were called out after dozens of fireworks were thrown at a house linked to a guinea pig breeding farm. Police believe the attack, which left unexploded fireworks under cars, is linked to recent animal rights harassment focused on the farm. Last month leaflets were passed out, wrongly accusing a client of the farm of being a convicted pedophile.

November 6, 2003 Asheville, NC: Vandals struck the Little Pigs Bar-B-Que restaurant, spray-painting ALF, "murderer," and other graffiti on two catering vans. Windows were broken in a van and in the main building.

November 1, 2003 New Hyde Park, NY: Sometime over Halloween weekend a resident's home and cars were spray-painted with the slogan ALF and "Stop HLS." The homeowner has no connection with Huntington Life Science (HLS), the long time target of animal rights extremists.

October 27, 2003 Newchurch, England: An arson attack by animal rights terrorists destroyed an unused house at Darley Oaks Farm, where guinea pigs are bred for research. Activists calling themselves "Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs" have been protesting outside the farm for four years. The protests have escalated into violence and intimidation against the owners of the farm and anyone doing business with them. On its website, the group has published contact information for the farm owner and associates. Dairy businesses buying milk from the farm as well as the firm's solicitors, have withdrawn their services due to the protests. Explosive devices have been found near the homes of employees on four occasions. Electricity to an entire village was cut off and an intensive campaign of hate mail and threatening letters was conducted against the family. The arson attack, along with the partial destruction of a golf course used by family members is believed to be ALF's work. Criminal attacks on the farm have increased to such a degree that the local police had to apply to the Home Office for an extra £250,000 to deal with it.

October 26, 2003 Forest Lake, MN: Authorities in Minnesota are investigating a fire that destroyed a nearly completed $5-6 million lakeside mansion. Following a front page newspaper article describing the home, the owner began receiving harassing phone calls. In addition to the article, the owner, who is an avid hunter, had recently hung hunting trophies in the house. Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the state fire marshal are considering the possibility that the fire was set by someone from an environmental group.

October 24, 2003 Sevenoaks, England: Bomb disposal experts were called to detonate a suspect package, a transparent lunchbox in which bubble wrap and wiring were visible. The package had been left near a road where children walked to school, outside the home of a director of Daiichi Pharmaceuticals, which does business with HLS. The executive had been the target of a previous bomb scare, and the windows of his house had been smashed. A controlled explosion was carried out by the bomb squad.

October 24, 2003 Martinsville, IN: ELF activists sabotaged a Wal-Mart construction site. Survey stakes were removed, and walls and machinery spray-painted. Over a dozen pieces of heavy machinery and vehicles were vandalized, with slashed tires, cut fuel hoses, and sand poured in fuel tanks.

October 6, 2003, Los Alamos, NM: US Forest Service officials discovered today that constuction equipment used to improve fish habitat on the Rio Cebolla river had been vandalized. Someone cut electrical wires and broke a window on a backhoe and slashed tires on a water trailer. ELF, the acronym for Earth Liberation Front was scratched onto both vehicles.

October 3, 2003 California: Using the Internet, animal extremists claimed credit for stealing credit card numbers and charging $25,000 to the accounts of two Chiron executives. They claimed possession of credit cards belonging to other Chiron employees and threated to use them too, unless Chiron severs its ties to Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).

October 3, 2003 Santa Monica, CA: In the early morning hours, ALF activists vandalized the home of Jerry Greenwalt, the head of Animal Services for Los Angeles. His home and car were splattered with red paint, and the initials "ALF" were scrawled on the property. ALF had recently distributed flyers denouncing Greenwalt and his department throughout his neighborhood. Animal rights activists targeted Greenwalt and his department for its policy of euthanizing animals, even though under his leadership the number of animals euthanized has decreased more than 25 per cent.

September 26, 2003 Pleasanton, CA: FBI and agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are investigating an early morning explosion at Shaklee Corporation that caused minor glass damage. The action closely resembled an incident last month in which bombs were detonated at Chiron Corporation, which a group calling itself "Revolutionary Cells of the Animal Liberation Brigade" claimed were in protest of Chiron's relationship with Huntingdon Life Sciences. Shaklee is a subsidiary of Yamanouchi Pharmaceuticals, which is also a customer of HLS. Yamanouchi has been the target of vandalism and protests by SHAC activists in the past.

September 24, 2003 Pullman, WA: Early in the morning, two small incendiary devices were ignited on a concrete driveway leading to Wegner Hall at Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. The devices, which were made from plastic and glass containers and an accelerant, resembled Molotov cocktails. The arson caused no injury or damage due to their location and the time of day. The devices had extinguished themselves by the time WSU police arrived. No one has yet taken credit for the arson, but it's interesting to note that only two weeks before, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA) issued a press release alleging that animal researchers at WSU vet school were bashing goats with sledgehammers. PeTA based its charge on information from a whistleblower at the vet school. WSU officials flatly denied the charge.

September 24, 2003, Baton Rouge, LA: The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) a terrorist group that targets people and industries that work with animals has taken credit for vandalism at the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine. Damages are estimated to reach several hundred thousand dollars according to the LSU Police Captain, Ricky Adams. ALF claimed that it destroyed computers and splashed red paint inside the lab to stop the suffering of research animals. No note was left at the site, but late Wednesday, The Reveille, LSU's student newspaper, received an e-mail signed by the Animal Liberation Front taking credit for the destruction. The FBI is investigating the break-in and the validity of the note.

September 24, 2003 Martiny Township, Michigan: The Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility for four incendiary devices that were found inside the Ice Mountain Spring Water Company's pumping station today. The Company workers who discovered the devices, plastic bottles filled with flammable liquid, were not hurt. The anarchist group, ELF justified its attempted arson at Ice Mountain Spring Water Company, formerly Perrier Group of America, of stealing well water for profit.

September 19, 2003 Farmington, CA: Animal activists broke into a duck barn at Sonoma Foie Gras and stole four ducks. Last month the restaurant and homes of partners in the foie gras business were vandalized.

September 19, 2003: San Diego, CA: ELF arsonists destroyed four houses under construction, three in one development and the fourth at a site located about three miles away. According to local TV news, a banner at the site of the first fires read, "Development is destruction. Stop raping nature. The ELFs are mad." Damage from the fires is estimated at one million dollars. The FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the local Metro Arson Strike Team are investigating.

September 5, 2003 Putten, Netherlands: Approximately 120 animal activists, arriving in two buses and other vehicles, broke into a fur farm, damaged farm vehicles and the security system, and released 6000 mink. Most mink were recaptured. Forty-nine of the activists were arrested after a neighbor blocked one of the buses with his tractor. Before the raid, the activists had held an international camp near the German border. The same weekend, 15 activists were arrested in an action against two Japanese companies, and about 7000 mink were released from a farm in Denmark.

September 4, 2003 Santa Fe, NM: A dozen SUVs were vandalized at a Santa Fe car dealership, painted with words such as "sloth" and "greed" and signed off by the Earth Liberation Front's initials, "ELF." Approximately one third of the dealer's inventory was damaged by the yellow paint. The FBI is conducting an investigation.

August 28, 2003 Emeryville, CA: In the pre-dawn hours, 2 explosions rocked Chiron corporation, Emeryville's largest employer. Chiron is a pharmaceutical firm that contracts with Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), the international animal testing firm under attack by animal rights terrorists for several years. Although no group has claimed responsibility for the blasts, the radical New Jersey animal rights cell, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, has a long history of inciting hatred against all who do business with HLS. Operating like anti-abortion terrorists, they maintain a website that demonizes Chiron employees and lists their home addresses along with actions taken against them. These include late night visits to the homes of Chiron executives, awakening family members and planting fake tombstones in their yards. Website messages warn Chiron to stop doing business with HLS and call employees "sick animal-killing scum." The FBI labels such attacks as terrorism because of their intimidating effect. Although no injuries or major property damage were reported, Chiron's 2000 employees were told to stay home Thursday and two of the town's major streets remained closed for several hours.

August 25, 2003 Sultan, WA: ALF activists cut fences at a small mink farm and released 10,000 mink, causing $500,000 in damages and incalculable losses in genetic history. Fifty volunteers worked to round up the mink, capturing about two-thirds of the traumatized animals. Scores died of dehydration or were killed on a nearby highway. Pen-raised mink are not equipped for life in the wild and some of the recaptured ones may die as well. The case is similar to two earlier break-ins at other fur farms in the county. An ALF e-mail said that the group plans to continue such actions.

August 22, 2003 West Covina, CA: ELF took responsibility for firebombing a Chevrolet dealership that destroyed 20 SUV Hummers and damaged 20 more, and, in a separate blaze, collapsed a warehouse roof. People near the dealership were evacuated. SUVs in three nearby cities were also vandalized with similar slogans. "ELF." "Fat, Lazy Americans" and "I (heart) Pollution" were among the graffiti, some profane, spray-painted on the cars. ELF issued an e-mail calling the incidents "ELF actions." The Fire Chief said the noxious smoke produced by the blaze created more pollution than the destroyed SUVs would have generated over their lifetime on the road. Damages exceed one million dollars and the FBI is investigating the vandalism as domestic terrorism.

August 15, 2003 Sonoma, CA: Animal activists broke into a new restaurant, after vandalizing the homes of two of the owners last month and publishing their names, addresses and phone numbers on the Internet. Objecting to the owners' ties to the production of foie gras, the activists broke through a wall of the restaurant, and painted slogans on the walls, electric outlets, and fixtures. They poured dry concrete down the drains, and turned on the water, flooding two adjacent buildings as well as the restaurant. Water seeped into the adobe walls of the historic building, and damage is estimated at $50,000. PETA has a national campaign against the nation's three foie gras producers.

August 6, 2003 Occold, England: According to the Business Review (UK), in mid July the Occold branch of the animal research firm, Huntingdon Life Science (HLS) received a telephone threat warning that the manager's wife and children could be kidnapped. Threats are nothing new to HLS, whose employees have been constant targets of animal rights terror for several years: They've been beaten, had their cars firebombed, tires slashed, had vehicles painted red and received ongoing threats. Their suppliers, investors and shareholders have also been targeted. Because of the escalating harassment, vandalism and violence, a High Court ruled in June that activists can not come within 50 yards of the homes of HLS employees or the two main HLS centers.

August, 4, 2003 Los Angeles, CA: Sherman Austin, a 20 year old anarchist was sentenced Monday to a year in jail. He was arrested for disorderly conduct in February at the World Economic Forum in New York. While there federal charges were being laid in California for distributing information related to explosives on his website. The sentence was more than recommended, but Austin took a plea bargain because he feared that he could be charged with terrorism, adding a possible 20 years to his sentence. Austin, who admitted posting links to bomb sites so that people could build and use them during demonstrations, must also pay a $2,000 fine and refrain from unapproved computer use and from associating with others who advocate physical force as a means of social change for 3 years. Throughout the animal rights and eco-terrorist movements, radical websites have been used to vilify targets and instructed readers on how to build bombs.

August 3, 2003 USA and UK: Websites belonging to Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) in the UK and USA are bragging that they firebombed a warehouse in Sussex, England belonging to their target, Huntingdon Life Sciences. Several vehicles stored there were destroyed.

August 3, 2003 Fresno, CA: Kelly Higginbotham, a self-described member of the Animal Liberation Front was arrested on August 3, 2003 on suspicion of making terrorist threats. According to the Fresno County Sheriff's Department, she is accused of calling in bomb threats to the Harris Ranch and beef processing plant saying there were bombs planted at both facilities and warning that "everyone would die." In February, California State University at Fresno hosted a conference on Revolutionary Environmentalism. The speakers panel was a who's who of animal rights terrorists, including convicted felons who publicly advocate arson and other acts of violence as acceptable methods of achieving change.

August 1, 2003 San Diego, CA: A $20-50 million blaze swept through a 5-story apartment complex under construction in the University Town Centre neighborhood of San Diego. No injuries were reported. Although the terrorist group ELF did not immediately take responsibility for the arson, a banner warning, "If you build it, we will burn it - ELF" was left at the apartment site. Rodney Coronado, the ELF backer who did prison time for the Michigan State University fire bombing in 1992 and has received financial support from tax-exempt PeTA, was scheduled to speak at Summer Revolution, "Animal Liberation Weekend August 1st - 3rd", which happened to be in town at the same time. Coronado promotes arson as his preferred method of terrorism to his radical following.

July 2003 Mill Valley and Santa Rosa, CA: For several weeks vandals have been attacking the home of two restauranteurs involved in the production and sale of foie gras. Slogans saying "Murderers" and "Foie gras is animal torture" have been sprayed on their homes and etched onto cars and windows. One of the men, a prominent chef, was mailed a videotape that was shot from his garden showing his family relaxing inside their home, and sent threatening letters saying "Stop or be stopped." PeTA has a campaign against US producers of foie gras.

July 28, 2003 Maalahti, Finland: Five suspected animal activists were arrested after allegedly trying to raid a fur farm. Their vehicle had objects used in similar raids. A year earlier the farm had been broken into, and 1000 mink released. Following this, an alarm system was installed, and the raiders only had time to break two locks before the owner and security guards were alerted.

July 25, 2003 Bjornhult, Sweden: Swedish ALF activists placed incendiary devices at an empty fox farm, protesting the owner's plans to change his operation to mink farming.

July 22, 2003 Amsterdam: Animal rights activists damaged the Arnhem branch of AMN Amro bank. Activists have been painting slogans and damaging the bank's ATM machine around the country for months. They are trying to force the bank to drop the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in Rijswijk as its customer.

July 17, 2003 Southwest France: Activists ransacked a field of GM maize of French biotech firm Biogemma. Attackers also damaged one of Monsanto's CM maize fields in Montech, France.

July 2, 2003 South Windsor, CT: Signs of the Earth Liberation Front, "ELF" and "no sprawl," were spray-painted on a newly completed house in South Windsor, Connecticut. An unidentified man called police and said the graffiti was done by an ELF activist.

June 29, 2003 Bracknell, England: Sixty protesters cut through two wire fences at Jealott's Hill Research Center, intending to destroy a crop of GM wheat. Instead, they destroyed a crop of ordinary wheat that was part of an important project investigating a fungal disease. This was a project that researchers had been working on for years.

June 24, 2003 Los Angles, CA: The Los Angeles chapter of the Animal Defense League placed home addresses, phone numbers and home photos of the Mayor James Hahn and Chief of Animal Services, Jerry Greenwalt, on their website and on flyers placed around the city. The website gives directions to Greenwalt's home and urges activists to "stop by." The activists want the Mayor to fire Greenwalt, and hire someone to run a "no kill" shelter.

June 24, 2003 Frankfurt, Germany: German PETA activists sprayed fake blood and threw chicken feathers on the chief of YUM! Brands as he opened a KFC restaurant. PETA is offering photos of the incident to the media. PETA Director of Vegan Outreach director Bruce Friedrich is quoted in the PETA news release assaying, "There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt."

June 23, 2003 Edmund, OK: The home of a stock trader working for a company trading HLS stock was vandalized by ALF activists. They covered the house with red and black paint, cut the phone, DSL, and cable lines to the house, and published his home and business addresses and phone numbers on their website. The DirectAction website stated, "Skip, this is just the beginning of our focus on you and it will continue until you join the laundry list of market makers who caved into the demands of the compassionate public. Charles Schwab, Paragon, Brokerage America, Merrill Lynch, have all fled from doing business with HLS and soon you will too." His business, Legacy Trading, had been vandalized by SHAC on May 18.

June 22, 2003 Austin, TX: ALF activists vandalized the home of an employee of Abbott Labs, a client of HLS. His house was covered with red paint and the slogans "Abbott Kills" and "ALF." Activists published his home and business addresses, phone numbers, and names of his wife and daughter on ALF's website.

June 22, 2003 Missoula, MT: Forty veteran activists, including the founders of Earth First!, the Ruckus Society, Rainforest Action Network, and the National Forest Protection Alliance are staging a week long "boot camp" the in Bitterroot National Forest to train eighty "novices" in civil disobedience and other tactics of forest protest. The encampment is planned to follow the Western Governors' Association forest summit meeting in Missoula on June 17-19.

June 19, 2003 Lowell, OR: Arson at the Middle Fork Ranger Station of the US Forest Service is being investigate by Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents. AFT is usually called in when eco-terrorism is suspected. Twenty firefighters responding were able to save to adjacent buildings.

June 14, 2003 Santa Cruz, CA: Environmental activists scratched the slogan ELF into ten new SUVs, causing $15,000 worth of damage.

June 5, 2003 Chico, CA: Another arson attempt was made at a shopping center under construction. Workers found remnants of several small fires, and ELF spray-painted on the door of a work truck at the site. The FBI is exploring connections with arson attempts at two McDonalds in March, and SUVs in May, in Chico.

June 4, 2003 Washington Township, MI: Two nearly completed homes were destroyed in early morning fires. "ELF" and "Stop sprawl" were spray painted on nearby construction equipment. The houses had a combined value of $700,000. The same message was found when arson destroyed two unfinished houses in Superior Township on March 21.

June 3, 2003 Chico, CA: ELF claimed the attempted arson of a new home. The fire burned through a PVC pipe holding water, dousing the flames so the damage was minimal, about $100. "Save our bio-region ELF" was painted on the sidewalk.

June 2, 2003 New York City: Five PETA anti-fur protesters were arrested and changed with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief. Wearing bloody fur coats, with their legs "caught" in traps, they blocked the entrance of the Conde Nast building and dumped red paint on the building entrance. Vogue magazine is published in the building.

May 23, 2003 San Diego: Twenty activists dressed in black, wearing balaclavas, and carrying red candles protested outside the home of an HLS employee. A message to her, posted on the SHAC website read "tonight 250 flyers were distributed in your neighborhood alerting your neighbors that you're a vicious animal abuser. You've already been hit by the ALF, you've already gotten early morning wake-up calls, you have masked activists protesting in front of your home, your censor lights are a joke, the cops are too slow to get there within a reasonable time, and thousands of activists know where you live. What's it going to take for you to quit HLS?"

May 21, 2003 Inverurie, Scotland: Three PETA activists, one dressed in a cow suit, were arrested for breach of the peace for trying to dump two tons of cow manure at the entrance to a Scottish beef event. They were were arrested before dumping the load.

May 20, 2003 Anchorage AK: Five Iditarod sled dogs were released into downtown traffic from their boxes on dog trucks. Four were quickly recovered but a new lead dog was missing all night and found by Animal Control. One dog had injured his pads running on pavement.

May 18, 2003 Edmund, OK: The FBI is investigating a case of "domestic terrorism" at Legacy Trading, which trades HLS stock. Window and door glass was broken, and red paint poured on the walk and in the office, with damages estimated at $4000. This is the third incidence of vandalism at the company. SHAC members have called the business hundreds of times a day, typing up phone lines, and have published personal information - names, phone numbers, addresses and social security numbers, of the owner and his neighbors on the SHAC website. The owner, Skip Boruchin said he would continue to trade the stock. "No person or organization or individual has the right to dictate to me that I cannot do a legal business in this country," he said. "They have no business trying to force me out of my house ... out of my neighborhood because I run a legal business in Edmond."

May 5, Sacramento, CA: At 3:00 am, SHAC activists with blaring sirens and bullhorns showed up at the home of an executive of a company that supplies software to HLS. SHAC plastered his neighborhood with photos of a mutilated dog, and posted his home and work phone numbers on the Internet, inviting activists to make hundreds of calls. "We'll be back, scumbag" and ".we know where you live, we know where you work, and we'll make your life hell until you pull out of HLS" was posted to SHAC's website. SHAC's website also has a state-by-state point-and-click map listing Huntington Life Science affiliates. SHAC says its home visits to people with tenuous ties to animal research have "broken new ground." Other extremist groups are adopting the same tactics.

May 4, 2003 Chico, CA: The FBI is investigating an attempted firebombing at Wittmeier Auto Center. Plastic milk containers filled with flammable liquid and rigged to ignite were left under two SUVs. While no group claimed responsibility, the method was similar to arson attempts by ALF activists at two Chico McDonalds in March.

April 27, 2003, Hudene and Faglavik, Sweden: Three activists calling themselves "Bye Bye Egg Industry" broke into two hatcheries belonging to Grimarnas, Inc., Sweden's largest producer of laying chickens. Brooding machines and other equipment was destroyed, and 42,000 eggs were cooled, killing the embryos. The loss of machinery and eggs is estimated at $240,000. Two activists were arrested at one factory, and the other the next morning as he was passing out leaflets about the destruction. All three were released pending trial. They left behind a letter and a vegan cake at both factories.

April 22, 2003 London, England: SHAC is targeting thirteen Japanese firms with ties to HLS. A page on the SHAC website says "Japanese companies kill animals at HLS," and urges activists to " really put the pressure on" the firms, saying they are SHAC's main focus. A Daiichi Pharmaceuticals director had his windows smashed and car damaged at his home in Kent. Another director was targeted at his London home by protesters with klaxon horns and megaphones. Protesters told his neighbors, who were awakened by the noise, to expect more late-night disturbances. Sumitomo Corporation, a trading house, was visited by a noisy protest at its city offices. Tony Blair ordered a security review, and concern was expressed by diplomats at the Japanese embassy.

April 22,2003 Suffolk, England: Homes of HLS employees were targeted by SHAC extremists. Car tires were slashed, paint and paint-stripper poured over cars, and letters and phone calls threatening violence were made.

April 22, 2003 England: "Violent scum" and ALF were spray-painted on a car belonging to the master of the Woodland Pytchley Hunt, and the cars tires punctured. The hunt master said that hunt saboteurs have tried to knock him off his horse and sprayed acid at the hunt during the season.

April 20, 2003 Droxford, England: ALF activists broke into a chicken farm and stole 1023 hens, taking them away in horse trailers. Caging systems, conveyor belts, and feeding apparatus were damaged and the building spray-painted with slogans. Robin Webb an ALF spokesman, said the chickens would be given homes as "companion animals."

April 15, 2003 Santa Cruz, CA: ELF activists attacked 15 SUVs with bright orange paint, and in an ELF press release, complained that the local paper did not cover the story.

April 11, 2003 Santa Cruz, CA: Vandals spray-painted an estimated 65 SUVs and trucks with references to ELF and anti-war slogans. Forty-five new vehicles were marked at a Ford dealership, and 18 to 20 vehicles parked at local residents' homes.

April 5, 2003 Lockport IL: ALF activists claimed responsibility for setting fire to a store belonging to a man convicted of slaughtering and selling endangered tigers and leopards for rugs, trophies, and meat. The e-mail from ALF also contained treats against all convicted in operating the exotic animal ring. Accelerant chemicals were collected at the arson scene, which was confined to a back meat-cutting room. The e-mail was similar to the one sent following vandalism and the cutting of truck brake lines at the Supreme Lobster and Seafood Company in February.

April 4, 2003 East Tennessee State University TN: PETA's national lecturer, Gary Yourofsky in an emotional display of anger, forced the cancellation of a lecture he was to give, opposing the use of animals in scientific and medical research. The director of the University's Division of Laboratory Animal Resources, placed pamphlets in support of animal research, and a placard stating "Opposing Views" on a cart outside the lecture room. Yourofsky became angry when he saw the cart, and was abusive to the organizer of the lecture, even using an analogy comparing her to the KKK. He slung the cart across the hall, scattering pamphlets on the floor. Public safety officers were called, the lecture canceled, and Yourofsky left the building.

April 2, 2003 St. Polten, Austria: ALF claimed responsibility for an arson, which completely destroyed three hunting cabins.

March 30, 2003 Los Angeles, CA: CBC's California branch office, which works with HLS in the Asian market, was vandalized. The front glass window and door were smashed, and messages demanding CBC sever all ties to HLS were spray-painted on the building and parking lot.

March 28, 2003 Montgomery, AL: A federal cargo truck was set on fire and five other vehicles were spray-painted with anti-war slogans and "ELF" at a Navy Recruiting Station.

March 27, 2003 San Diego, California: The Animal Liberation Front posted the following message to an employee of Huntington Life Sciences, an animal testing laboratory, after dumping red paint on her car, puncturing three tires, and scrawling "HLS SCUM" across her garage door: A message to Claire: 'You can install all of the motion sensor lights in the world and it won't make a difference. You've been marked. We've been watching you and Kevin following your trip overseas last April 19th. We've been in your house while (you were) in San Francisco. We've "bumped" into you at Costco. You've given us the time while in line at Bank of America. We've been watching your house. We've been watching you and your family. You've provided us with a wealth of information and amusement. But the fun can only last for so long. In consideration of Kevin being out of town so often, think of your family's security as your windows could be put through tomorrow night. We won't forget the animals you've helped murder at Huntingdon. Until you quit or until HLS closes, we're bringing your work home for you." A.L.F.

March 25, 2003 Petaluma, CA: Animal activists struck the Rancho Veal plant, one of the few surviving slaughterhouses in the state, setting a fire that caused about $10,000 damage to the roof. Skylights were smashed, a back door broken, and "Stop the Killing" spray-painted on the back of the building. In January 2000, arsonists set off incendiary devices in three buildings at the plant, causing $250,000 in damage. Other protests in the past saw activists chaining themselves to the gate or to concrete barrels, and obstructing the driveway for eight hours.

March 23, 2003 Yarra Glen, Victoria, Australia: ALF torched a hurdle on a racetrack, and painted a slogan on the track, in retaliation for the death of one horse and injury to another at the Classic Steeple steeplechase race.

March 23, 2003 Los Angeles, CA: ALF activists smashed windows at the home of a businessman who works in a corporation connected to the CEO of HLS.

March 23, 2003 Beverley Hills, CA: ALF shot out the glass front door of the offices of E-Trade, which trades HLS shares.

March 23, 2003 West Hollywood, CA: ALF activists cracked the front display window of a store selling furs.

March 21, 2003 Superior Township, MI: Two homes under construction were burned to the ground in a new subdivision. Damages were estimated at $400,000. "ELF" and "no sprawl" were spray-painted on the garage of a nearby house. These were the third and fourth fires set in the subdivision in the last seven months.

March 21, 2003 London, England: Animal rights activist Sonia Hayword was jailed for 15 months, for causing rocks to be thrown through the windows of a person she mistakenly believed to be connected with HLS.

March 18, 2003 Tyrone, NY: Susan E. Coston, shelter manager for Farm Sanctuary, pled guilty to criminal trespass for taking a lamb from a Tyrone farm in November. She was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and ordered to pay $200 in restitution to the farm owner.

March 17, 2003 Chicago, IL: Kayla Werdon, A PETA activist, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, after disrupting traffic by being "improperly clothed." She was wearing shoes, shorts, a St. Patrick's Day hat, and stickers covering her nipples, and refused to cover up and stop handling out leaflets on veganism.

March 10, 2003 Vichte, Belgium: ALF militants targeted a fur farm, opening all the cages and releasing 1500 mink. Most were recaptured.

March 10, 2003 Dublin, Ireland: The Citywest Hotel in Dublin canceled an annual conference organized by the Institute of Animal Technicians, a professional organization whose members are in charge of animals used in research laboratories. Most members are from academia, and a few are HLS employees. SHAC activists invaded the hotel, let off stink bombs and jammed the hotel switchboard with protest calls. SHAC spokesperson Natasha Avery said the hotel had been put under "relentless" pressure and the cancellation of the conference that SHAC forced was a "real slap in the face for the industry."

March 9, 2003 Nissedal and Hamar, Norway: ALF claimed responsibility for arsons at two fur farm feed suppliers, which caused damages of millions of kroner. The fires were ignited by incendiary devices put under trucks and in buildings. ALF said the arsons were because "these factories play a big part in the Norwegian fur trade assault on animals.and are a strategic goal in the struggle against the Norwegian fur trade."

March 7, 2003 Galicia, Spain: ALF terrorists attacked a fur farm, releasing over 300 mink.

March 4 & 11, 2003 Chico, CA: An ALF activist attempted to torch a McDonalds early March 4th. A restaurant worker found two one-gallon containers filled with a flammable liquid near doors behind the restaurant. "Meat is Murder," "Species Equality," and "ALF" were spray-painted on the building. Notes claiming ALF responsibility were found in a phone booth and at the office of the local weekly newspaper. Instructions for similar incendiary devices are available on the ALF website. A week later a small fire was set by vandals at a second McDonalds. "Liberation" and "ALF" were spray-painted on the walls.

March 3, 2003 Berlin, Maryland: ALF activists cut through windows at the Merial Select Laboratory and stole 115 baby chickens. ALF stated in an Internet release that Merial was targeted because they are a client of HLS. The release stated "Any friend of HLS is an enemy of the ALF. We know who their clients are. We are out there and you are next."

March 2003, Melbourne, Australia: ALF activists vandalized three Ford dealerships, spraying cars with corrosive fluids. Notes were left saying the vandalism was because Ford sponsored rodeo events.

March 2003 Melbourne, Australia: ALF targeted the Jenny Hoo boutique shop twice in one month. Locks were superglued, "Fur is murder" painted on the walls, and red paint splattered on the shop.

February 27, 2003 Berlin, MD: ALF activists stole 115 baby chicks from Merial Select Laboratory, cutting through windows and wire mesh to avoid alarmed doors. Merial, which makes multiple animal vaccines and wormers, was targeted because they are a client of HLS. Activists said, "Any friend of HLS is an enemy of the ALF. We know who their clients are. We are out there and you're next."

February 27, 2003 Scotland: TV cook Clarissa Dickson Wright revealed that she gets up to 12 death threats a week from animal rights activists. She is targeted because of her pro-hunt views. Wright has been accosted at book signing, and her bookshop has been attacked. A detective is assigned to her, who she can call for advice about threats or for security if she is going to make a public appearance.

February 25, 2003 Temple Hill, England: After Peter Day shot a fox that had bitten his baby, he received threats of window smashing and car firebombing in a letter signed "Peter Hunt Saboteur." The local police warned Day and his neighbors to be vigilant.

February 23, Gothenburg, Sweden: ALF activists super-glued several gas pumps and credit card machines at a Shell gas station. Anti-HLS slogans were spray-painted on the building, stating the action would continue until Shell stopped using HLS.

February 23, 2003 Lidkoping, Sweden: Wolds fur shop was attacked and had its windows smashed six times by ALF activists.

February 21, 2003 USA: PETA launched "Holocaust on your Plate" - a campaign using a display of eight panels showing photos of farms and slaughterhouses side by side with photos of emaciated adults and children looking out through bars at Nazi death camps, comparing the slaughter of chickens to the murder of six million Jews.

February 19, 2003 Ballymanus, Ireland: ALF activists claimed to have removed sections of fence at a mink farm and released 1000 mink. However, the farm owner stated that though they did open cages containing 1000 animals, most were rounded up, and only 50 were missing.

February 18, 2003 - March 3, 2003 Cambridge, England: A mole at the Deloitte and Touche accounting firm, auditor to Huntington Life Sciences, stole landline and mobile phone numbers, and e-mail and home addresses of senior managers and their secretaries for SHAC (Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty). SHAC then announced plans to use the information to block phones with jamming software, occupy offices, and stage protest demonstrations at private homes against the firm. Natasha Avery, Co-leader with Gregory Avery, of SHAC, said "The company will be a global target. We will be hitting them all over the world." With SHAC activists using the information, D&T managers and their employees were the victims of criminal damage - acid and spray-painting attacks on cars and homes - and noisy protests outside homes late at night, intimidating spouses and children. Offensive slogans were painted on homes, and neighbors were leafleted with material stating they were living next to "murderers." After two weeks of continual harassment, D&T severed its relationship with HLS, following Marsh, Inc. which had insured the company and left after spending millions for round-the-clock protective measures for its employees. As a result of SHAC's intimidation campaigns, the British government is now supplying banking and insurance to HLS, and it has moved its headquarters to the US. Following the announcement of D&T's withdrawal of services to HLS, SHAC said it would cease its campaign and begin targeting HLS customers. Natasha Avery stated, "We'll see who has taken on the audit when the first quarter figures come out and that firm will have to deal with us..Our message to any company has always been very simple. If you deal with Huntington you deal with SHAC, and we will target whoever we want to achieve our aim of closing the place down. No company will stand in our way, be it insurer, bank, accountant or whatever. And passing laws against us is laughable because we will always find a way around them. In any case, going to prison is a small price to pay if it means closing HLS down."

February 1, 2003 Pyramid Hill, Victoria, Australia: ALF activists broke into a pig farm and removed 70 sow stall gates and gate pins, causing about $4000 in damages.

February, 2003, Virginia: PETA President Ingrid Newkirk sent a letter to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, after a donkey laden with explosives was used in a bomb attack on the West Bank. Newkirk asked Arafat to "appeal to all who listen to you to leave animals out of this conflict." Newkirk showed no corresponding concern over suicide bombings that kill people. "It's not my business to inject myself in human wars," she told the Washington Post.

January 26, 2003 Washington, DC: At a conference at American University called the National conference on Organized Resistance, Rodney Coronado showed the audience how to build a cheap incendiary device. "Here's a little model I'm going to show you here. I didn't have any incense, but -- this is a crude incendiary device. It is a simple plastic jug, which you fill with gasoline and oil. You put in a sponge, which is soaked also in flammable liquid -- I couldn't find an incense stick, but this represents that. You put the incense stick in here, light it, place it -- underneath the 'weapon of mass destruction,' light the incense stick - sandalwood works nice -- and you destroy the profits that are brought about through animal and earth abuse. That's about -- two dollars. " Coronado further stated, "You know, those people - I think they should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them."

January 23, 2003 Klamath Falls, Oregon: An employee of a Japanese company planning to build a hog farm received written death threats, and had car tires slashed.

January 21, 2003 South Australia: Animal activists broke into a pig farm, and welded together a number of sow stalls.

January 20, 2003 Seattle, WA: Arson at a MacDonalds caused $5000 worth of damage. In September, 2005, Christopher W. McIntosh of Maple Shade, NJ, admitted he set the fire by pouring several gallons of gasoline on the roof on behalf of ALF-ELF. In an anonymous phone call he said "[t]here was an E-L-F-A-L-F hit at McDonald's across from the Space Needle. There will be more. ... As long as Mother Earth is pillaged, raped, destroyed. As long as McDonald's keeps hurting our furry brothers, there will be more." He will be sentenced to eight to ten years in prison.

Jan 16, 2003 New York: State Susan Coston, a Farm Sanctuary employee, illegally entered a sheep producer's barn and stole a lamb, which she took to FS property. The crippled lamb was then taken to the Cornell veterinary school, with FS listed as the owner. Charges were filed against Coston, and FS now claims she acted on her own and not on their behalf.

January 4, 2003 - Poole, England: ALF activists broken into an egg farm barn, expecting to find hens in cages. Instead, they caused a stampede of over 7000 free-range hens, and about 150 were crushed or suffocated. The farm had been targeted 15 years ago, when scores of hens were turned loose, only to be killed by foxes.

January 1, 2003 Newton, MA: Working over several nights an activist spray-painted environmentalist and peacnik slogans on 16 SUVs.

January 1, 2003 Erie County, Pennsylvania: ELF activists ignited jugs full of gasoline under vehicles in a Ford dealer's lot. The fires damaged or destroyed two Ford trucks and two SUVs.

December 29, 2002 Milford, Utah: Activists from the United Animal Rights Coalition (UARC) broke into a hog farm and stole two pigs. Such break-ins are a matter of concern since activists don't follow biosecurity protocols designed to protect the animals from disease.

December 28, 2002 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: ELF activists attacked a housing development, severely damaging construction vehicles and the model home on the property.

December 28, 2002 Doebein, Germany: ALF activists smashed windows of several vehicles belonging to a meat packing company, and painted slogans on the walls of the plant building.

December 19, 2002 Emst, Netherlands: A member of the Dutch ALF stole 33 chickens from an egg farm. This is the second time the farm was broken into and birds were stolen.

December 18, 2002 London, England: The UK government has agreed to provide insurance services to Huntington Life Sciences, following an intimidation campaign by SHAC against Marsh, Inc, its former insurers. The Royal Bank of Scotland, Citibank, CSFB, HSBC, and Barclays all withdrew support from HLS after staff and shareholders were subject to harassment and intimidation by SHAC, and the UK government was forced last year to provide banking services to the company.

December 1, 2002 The Hague, Netherlands: Activists attacked the building housing Marsh, Inc. with paint, glue and acid, and vowed to return until Marsh broke its connection with HLS.

November 23, 2002 San Polo D'Enza, Italy: Animal rights activists broke into a dog breeding farm and stole 128 beagles being raised for research. The activists spray-painted "murderers" and "ALF will free all" on the buildings and walls. November 11, 2002 Thionville, France Animal rights activists broke into a mink farm in eastern France and released 1000 animals from their cages. Firefighters and volunteers searched for the animals with little success. The farm owner estimates his loss at $30,000.

November 11, 2002 Shreveport, LA & Vancouver, Canada: PETA unveiled two new advertising ventures. A PETA ad, which the Vancouver Province refused to run, compares the murder of women on a British Columbia pig farm to the treatment of animals slaughtered for food. The ad features headlines describing the mutilated bodies of the women, and ends by saying "If this leaves a bad taste in your mouth, become a vegetarian." A billboard, which was rejected by all four New Orleans outdoor advertising firms, depicts former Ku Klux Klan member David Duke with a milk mustache. The ad says "Got (lactose) Intolerance? The White Stuff Ain't the Right Stuff. MilkSucks.com."

November 1, 2002 Richmond, Virginia: Vandals who left messages crediting ELF damaged SUVs in several incidents recently. Twenty-five SUVs on the lot of a Ford dealer were permanently defaced with a glass-etching cream. The cream was also used to write ELF on the windows of a Burger King and two MacDonalds. A week later, SUVs parked near homes were severely damaged with an ax or hatchet. Vandalism and attempted arson have also been reported recently at highway and home construction sites in the area. The FBI is investigating.

November 1, 2002 Washington, DC: PETA has issued an alert against contributing to the American Lung Association as well as a call for a boycott of the Bank of America because it sends corporate contributions to the March of Dimes - both organizations which fund animal-based biomedical research. The anti-charity campaign by PETA and PCRM, through PRCM's new "Council of Humane Giving" uses misinformation on the use of animals in research.

October 31, 2002 California: SHAC activists went "trick or treating" to the homes of three people who work for businesses connected Kirby Cramer, an investor in HLS. If the door was opened, the activists responded by throwing leaflets and blood-covered stuffed animals, while screaming their message through megaphones. One couple was told their home address and personal details were on the Internet. At one home, where the door wasn't opened, the activists left photos and stink bombs, along with their leaflets and bloodied stuff animals.

October 25, 2002 Boston, MA: Twelve animal rights activists linked to SHAC were indicted for stalking an employee of Marsh Inc., which SHAC accuses of doing business with Huntington Life Sciences. The dozen activists allegedly harassed the Marsh executive for five months, calling him "puppy killer" and standing outside his home at all hours with a megaphone screaming threats, including threatening to burn down his house. Prosecutors said SHAC's goal is to intimidate Marsh into refusing insurance brokerage business with HLS.

October 25, 2002 Beijing, China: Two PETA activists, Yvonne Taylor and Kayla Worden, stripped naked and displayed a banner protesting a Beijing fur fashion show in a busy Beijing shopping district. Police confiscated their passports, and Chinese officials subsequently deported the women.

October 25, 2002 Boston, MA: Twelve animal rights activists linked to SHAC were indicted for stalking an employee of Marsh Inc., which SHAC accuses of doing business with Huntington Life Sciences. The dozen activists allegedly harassed the Marsh executive for five months, calling him "puppy killer" and standing outside his home at all hours with a megaphone screaming threats, including threatening to burn down his house. Prosecutors said SHAC's goal is to intimidate Marsh into refusing insurance brokerage business with HLS. 43 indictments were handed down, including among other charges criminal harassment, attempted extortion, and conspiracy.

October 24, 2002 Washington, DC: The Florida Election Commission has charged Farm Sanctuary with 210 counts of breaking campaign finance laws in their campaign to get Amendment 10, dealing with the use of gestation crates at hog farms, on the Florida ballot. Farm Sanctuary co-founder Gene Bauston was personally named. The Commission charged that Farm Sanctuary illegally and willfully acted as the ballot committee's cashier and unlawfully promised donors a federal tax deduction.

October 18, 2002 Winter Park, Colorado: The town's water supply has been threatened in a letter by a group claiming to be ELF. The Denver Water Board also received a letter from ELF on October 2. ELF's press office said, in an e-mail to the Associated Press, that while they don't say the threat isn't real, they usually get notice after an action has been taken. Security in the area has been stepped up since 9/11.

September, 22, 2002: Animal activists are urging action against Shell, BP, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck and 59 other companies which have links with the Huntington Life Sciences. SHAC (Stop Huntington Life Cruelty) has posted contact information for the companies on their website, urging activists to lobby the companies and organize demonstrations against them to force them to drop dealings with HLS. "The only way we are going to stop HLS is if every single one of us opposed to what they are doing stands up and takes action against them with determination and force" reads the SHAC website.

September 2, 2002, Edmund, OK: The FBI is "actively investigating" SHAC to see if any federal laws have been broken. SHAC had posted on its website personal information (names, addresses, and social security numbers) of nineteen neighbors of Skip Boruchin, a market maker for stock of Huntington Life Sciences. SHAC has been harassing Boruchin with pickets and hundreds of phone calls daily to force him to stop marketing HLS. Boruchin has stood firm, so SHAC has focused on his neighbors. An except from the website stated "Skip Boruchin is a man who can not be moved by reason or sympathy ... So we regretfully announce that since Skip can not be figuratively moved, he must be literally moved. Below is a small sample of information currently available on his neighbors. We have other information for some of them - e-mail accounts ... credit card information, birthdates, etc. This information will be periodically leaked to the public and to animal liberation groups to do with as they will."

August 22, 2002, Lohja, Finland: Animals rights activists representing Justice for Animals targeted a fur store owner. During their protest at the owner's home, they told her children that their mother was "a murderer," that they should be ashamed of her, and that "your mother will kill that {family} dog." The store owner said her children had become fearful, having nightmares, and being afraid the protesters would return.

August 20, 2002 London, England: Robert Moaby, linked to SHAC, was jailed for four and half years for sending e-mail death threats to senior corporate figures and financial backers of HLS living in New York and Toronto. In sentencing him, the judge said "These were not idle threats. They must be seen in the context of a violent campaign against HLS and its associated companies."

August 18, 2002 Eugene, Oregon: FBI and the Oregon State Police are investigating instances of sabotage to Bonneville Power Administration transmission lines. Environmental activists have been shooting at and damaging the insulators of the power lines in several different areas. The sabotage has caused brush fires, and repairs and power outages have cost BPA and other suppliers $40,000.

August 11, 2002: Arson by the ELF caused $700,000 worth of damage at a Forest Service lab in Irvine, PA, and destroyed 70 years of research focused on maintaining a healthy forest ecosystem. An e-mail from Elf's office said "While innocent life will never be harmed in any action we undertake, where it is necessary, we will no longer hesitate to pick up the gun to implement justice, and provide the needed protection for our planet that decades of legal battles, pleading protest, and economic sabotage have failed so drastically to achieve." It further stated that all Forest Service stations were targeted, and, if rebuilt, the Pennsylvania station would be targeted for complete destruction.

July 10, 2002 Seattle, WA: The FBI is searching for the activists who set off smoke bombs in two downtown buildings where Marsh, Inc., which insures HLS, has offices. The buildings were completely evacuated with no injuries. The Fire Department reports that the bombs are an incendiary type that, if they had come in contact with combustible materials, would have caused high-rise fires. SHAC did not take credit, but "applauded" the animal rights activists who set the bombs and left notes.

July 9, 2002 San Francisco, CA: A SHAC activist deliberately vomited over the HLS display at the World Congress of Pharmacology Conference. The next day more activists overturned the company's literature table, yelling and calling the HLS personnel "puppy killers."

June 22, 2002 Seattle, WA: An activist protesting the round-up and culling of geese tried to interfere with wildlife officials by repeatedly driving his car in front of their trucks and slamming on the brakes. He hit a truck driven by a federal wildlife official, sending the man to the hospital where he was treated with back and neck injuries.

May 3, 2002 Blomington, IN: A series of explosions was planned at the Sims Poultry Company. Company trucks were connected by gasoline trails to a refrigerator truck that was rigged to explode. The refrigerator truck burned, but the others failed to catch fire. Sims Poultry had been targeted in the past. ALF took credit for the arson in a press release May 15.

March 15, 2002 Traveler's Rest, Ontario, CA: A group calling itself Activists Working for Animal Rights broke into a fox farm and released 40 foxes. The activists cut through a chain link fence and carved a note on a door threatening to "burn" next time. Most of the foxes were recaptured, but three died after being struck by vehicles on a nearby highway.

February 14, 2002 Trenton, NJ: Two PETA activists filed a lawsuit against the state of New Jersey following a collision of their car with a deer. PETA charged that New Jersey's wildlife management programs were planned to increase the deer population "despite the known dangers an increased deer population poses to motorists," and thus the state violated the obligations of the government to provide for public safety.

Feb 12, 2002, Washington DC: FBI testimony before the House Ecoterror Hearing. "Domestic terrorism is the unlawful use, or threatened use, of violence by a group or individual based and operating entirely within the United States (or its territories) without foreign direction, committed against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives...During the past several years, special interest extremism, as characterized by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), has emerged as a serious terrorist threat. The FBI estimates that the ALF/ELF have committed more than 600 criminal acts in the United States since 1996, resulting in damages in excess of 43 million dollars."

November 11, 2001 San Diego, CA: ALF broke into the contract animal research lab of Sierra Biomedical, smashing equipment and destroying research files as well as the company's transport van. The damage was estimated at $50,000. An ALF communique stated "No high-price contract is worth murder nor is it worth what the ALF will do to stop these murders. We were thorough and determined, they will not soon recover from our visit."

October 19, 2001 Portland, Oregon: Two anti-logging activists were indicted in the first federal prosecution in Oregon of alleged eco-terrorism by ELF. Jacob Sherman and Michael Scarpetti, aka "Tre Arrow," were charged with four felonies in connection with a fire that destroyed cement trucks in April, 2001, causing damage estimated at $210,000. They also face another federal indictment for fire-bombing three logging trucks in June, 2001, during the protest of the Eagle Creek Lumber Sale. Investigators found similarities in the two arson attacks.

October 18, 2001 Glenwood, Iowa: ALF cut wire mesh pen fencing and released approximately 162 pigeons, ducks, and geese. They emptied nesting boxes, removed breeder tags, and damaged or destroyed sheds on the property. This was their second action against this farm.

October 17 and 24, 2001 In Ellsworth, Iowa: Animal Rights terrorists attacked a small fur farm twice in six days, releasing 1700 mink to be hit by cars or fall victim to dogs, starvation, stress and cold. ALF claimed credit for the raids.

October 16, 2001 Jewell, Iowa: ALF released an estimated 200 mink from Isebrand Fur Farm, which had been previously targeted by ALF in 1999 when 3000 mink were released. This is the 70 time animals have been released from fur farms in North America.

October 12, 2001, East Lansing, MI: A letter containing an unknown white powder caused the evacuation of a mailroom, and the subsequent decontamination of 17 people, at Michigan State University. The substance was later found to be harmless. Evidence in the letter indicated it came from an animal rights group. The school had previously been targeted by activists in December, 1999 when arson, claimed by ELF, caused $900,000 worth of damage at a Michigan State animal research facility.

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.

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.

February 17, 2001 UK: Rock Star Bryan Ferry is targeted by animal rights activists for declaring his support of foxhunting. Ferry's reunion tour of Roxy Music is threatened with protests; he cancels plans for attending a March pro-hunting demonstration in London.

February 13, 2001 Scotland: A letter bomb was sent to an agricultural entity in the Borders. Army experts were called out to defuse the bomb.

February 12-16, 2001 Long Island, NY: Suffolk County arsonist suspects are arrested. Four teenagers were charged with burning trucks and 9 homes under construction; and with plotting to burn a duck farm and a McDonald's. The group is linked to ELF and ALF. Arrested were Connor Cash, 19; and Jared McIntyre, Matthew Rammelkamp and George Mashkow III, all aged 17. Each could face 5 to 20 years in jail, $500,000 in fines and $358,000 in restitution.

February 12, 2001 UK: An agricultural firm in North Yorkshire received a letter bomb which was defused without incident by army experts.

February 11, 2001 UK: Nearly 1,000 animal rights protesters in Southern England attacked facilities of GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Roche, Bayer and Pharmacia. They also targeted homes belonging to company executives. Organized by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, the rally met at a central location and split to 9 locations where they smashed facility windows, broke and entered, destroyed machinery and upended cabinets. 87 were arrested with more arrests expected, pending individual identification from videotapes of the protests.

February 10, 2001 Finland: Karri Konsti's fur farm suffered destruction of all cages and the release of 40 foxes on this date, in the fourth raid on his facility. The foxes were dyed and released inside the farm property to confuse breeding efforts.

February 7, 2001 Washington DC: A McDonald's franchise was vandalized, with damage attributed to the Animal Liberation Front.

February 7, 2001 UK: Barclays Stockbrokers, a subsidiary of Barclays bank, announced that it will cease to hold Huntingdon Life Sciences shares in Barclays nominee accounts on behalf of its clients. In taking this move, a Barclays spokesman explained that "our first responsibility is to the safety and welfare of our staff and their families. Unfortunately we cannot currently guarantee the safety of our people because of the actions of a very small group of animal rights extremists. Until the actions of this group have been stopped - and we welcome the Government's recent comments on this matter - we feel the only responsible course of action is to stop holding Huntingdon Life Sciences shares for clients in our nominee company. We deeply regret this decision."

February 6, 2001 NY: Credit for smashing a Corlina Furs front window was claimed in an ALF communique.

February 5, 2001 UK: One of the 47 beagles stolen from the hunt kennel in Kent a month ago was returned to the kennel, recovered near Bristol by police on a tip. The dog had been castrated and an attempt had been made to remove its ear tattoo. Julian Greensides was arrested and charged with handling stolen goods. The hunt has put up a 5,000 pound reward for the recovery of the hounds and the capture of those responsible.

February 5, 2001 Buffalo, NY: ALF claims credit for a night time raid on a University of Buffalo campus Burger King, smashing 4 display windows and a glass door, and spray-painting the restaurant sign.

Feburary 4, 2001 Charlotte, NC: Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus train cars were vandalized with spray paint slogans, credit claimed by an ALF communique.

February 4, 2001 UK: In an attack near Nantwich, Cheshire Beagles master George Murray, his wife and five other hunt members were assaulted by masked animal rights activists. At least five hunt members were injured by the stick- and whip-wielding attackers. Murray was beaten, kicked in the head and face and his wife was punched in the face. They were threatened with death as retribution for the death 10 years ago of hunt saboteur Michael Hill.

February 1, 2001 UK: Huntingdon Life Sciences reported more than 400 attempts by protest hackers to infiltrate its web site in the 4th quarter of 2000.

January 31, 2001 UK: Animal activist Charlotte Lewis was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to sending hate mail to staff members of Huntingdon Life Sciences. Her letters included the warning "If you don't quit HLS then your life will not be worth living. You will always have to be looking over your shoulder." Another letter read "This is a warning. Your life is in grave danger if you don't stop working at HLS. You will find yourself having a gun aimed at your stupid ugly head." Evidence against Lewis included DNA tests matching her saliva on the backs of postage stamps.

January 31, 2001 UK: Pershing, a division of the Credit Suisse First Boston investment bank, severs its links to Huntingdon Life Sciences, a drug-testing group. Investors holding shares in nominee accounts, which enabled anonymity, were asked to take their shares back in their own names and told that Pershing would stop buying HLS shares on their behalf. The move, according to Pershing's managing director, was aimed at protecting Pershing's own staff - who could not remain anonymous in normal operations - from harassment, intimidation and assault by animal rights activists. This move by Pershing follows withdrawals from HLS support already undertaken by the fund manager Phillips & Drew; broker WestLB Panmure; the bank HSBC; and broker TD Waterhouse.

January 31, 2001 UK: A letter bomb exploded in Cumbria in a charity shop owned by the British Heart Foundation. The woman who opened the package was not injured.

January 30, 2001 UK: Two nail bombs, sent to an agricultural supplier in Sheffield and a cancer research campaign shop in Lancashire, were detected and defused by authorities before being opened by the recipients. Both bomb attacks were linked to letter bomb mailings that started in mid-December.

January 27, 2001, Philadelphia, PA: The Pride of the Sea, a fish distributor struck by ALF activists earlier in the month again sustained night time truck tire slashings.

January 26, 2001 AZ: The tally has reached 11 for torched Expensive homes under construction in the Phoenix area. No one has claimed credit for the arson attacks, but circumstances suggest opposition to urban sprawl and ecosystem disturbance.

January 26, 2001 Netherlands: The Dutch government became the second European country to ban the breeding of animals for fur production. The 200 mink farms currently operating in the Netherlands were given 10 years to scale back production to closure. Current Dutch fur production yields 2.8 million furs annually, mainly for the Italian market.

January 25, 2001 VT: In response to a decision to remove "Got Milk?" posters from Burlington school premises, Governor Howard Dean told dairy industry officials that the state would be willing to help pay the costs of any lawsuits filed by a group that objected to the portrayal of milk as a healthy food. Superintendent Donna Jemillo's removal of the posters two weeks ago, after PETA objections, considered "equal space" for anti-milk ads an unworkable alternative.

January 25, 2001 MN: Frank B. Ambrose was arrested in Bloomington on charges of timber spiking, a charge punishable by up to 18 months in prison and a $10,000 fine. Ambrose is the Midwest organizer for the American Lands Alliance. At least 26 trees in an 80-acre stand of oak and other hardwoods were found to have been spiked, after which the Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the act through an internet posting. Officials claimed that the distinctive 10-inch nails driven into trees were traced to Ambrose.

January 24, 2001 UK: Animal rights activist Matthew Holborrow, 26, was convicted of harassment and put under a restraining order prohibiting any approach closer than a half mile from Ponteland mink farmer Peter Harrison's land. Hexham magistrates noted three occasions of harassment stemming from pointing a video camera into a house occupied by Harrison's parents. The farm has been the target of more than 400 protests in the last three years, with Holborrow present at about 20. Harrison claimed stress, family distress and a heart attack stemming from the harassment.

January 23, 2001 France: The French fashion house Chanel suffered a web site hacker smear protesting fur fashion only hours before presenting its latest haute couture collection. Chanel's site was altered by the insertion of gory pictures and charges of "murderers." The hacking is under investigation.

January 23, 2001 UK: The Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty group (SHAC) claimed to have information on the identity of the anonymous US financial backer who rescued Huntingdon Life Sciences from dissolution recently. SHAC Spokesman Greg Avery said, "We will destroy them. They will come to rue the day they had anything to do with Huntingdon Life Sciences… They must be mad if they think they can keep it a secret." Protesters have established a track record of intimidating and backing off businesses and investors that could provide financial support for HLS. Tactics include publishing the names and addresses of shareholders, with web site invitations to "…get a list of shareholders in your area…"

HLS is the biggest contract research firm in the UK, with most of the work on new medicines for dementia, asthma, AIDS and diabetes. In the last 10 years nearly every new drug has had some of its research done there. Over the course of animal rights protests, HLS stock has gone from a 1990 level of 335 pence to one penny in the week of January 15-19, 2001. The value of HLS also fell from 350 million pounds to 5 million pounds.

Cambridge police received an extra one million pounds to help with the added costs of policing the protests at HLS.

January 22, 2001 Canada: The Crown Isle golf resort in the retirement community of Courtenay broke its silence, disclosing vandal attacks over the past few months. Damage included spray paint graffiti, destroyed course fixtures and slogans against "the rich" painted on greens with turpentine. A communique to the Comox Valley Record protested the development of green space and warned against building high end housing around the golf course.

January 22, 2001 UK: A pet shop supplier in Newcastle received a letter bomb. The device failed to explode.

January 21, 2001 France: Nearly 400 mink were released from a fur farm near Fecamp in northwestern France, according to police. ALF slogans were left at the farm, the value of the lost mink is not immediately known.

January 19, 2001 OR: Elaine Close joined Craig Rosebraugh on the witness list of people subpoenaed to testify at Josh Harper's criminal contempt trial scheduled for February 6, 2001 in Portland, Oregon. Harper is charged with refusing to cooperate with a federal grand jury investigating the work of ALF and ELF.

January 18, 2001 Washington DC: London Mayor Ken Livingstone, appearing at a luncheon in his honor during the US Conference of Mayors meeting, took a glass of water in the face from a PETA spokesperson who was upset over the plan to rid Trafalgar Square of pigeons. Bruce Friedrich, attending the luncheon under a faked press affiliation, asked the mayor about the plan, pronounced it "all wet," tossed the water at Livingstone and was hustled out of the room by security.

January 17, 2001 UK: A bill to ban fox hunting passed the House of Commons, setting up a battle in the House of Lords and pitting urban dwellers vs. rural traditionalists over the issues of liberty, democracy and a rural way of life.

January 14, 2001 NY: Radicals struck on Long Island, torching equipment shortly after 5 a.m. at a North Shore construction company. ELF claimed credit for the attack, which caused about $8,000 damage, destroying a pickup truck and burning a 14-ton payloader.

January 13, 2001 OR: The Oregon Regional Primate Research Center was cleared of allegations of animal abuse after inspection by 6 officials of the US Dept. of Agriculture. An investigation by USDA followed allegations by former employee Matt Rossell, who filed a formal complaint and released secretly shot videotape purporting to document animal abuse at the facility. USDA reported no abuse, but recommended improving monkey housing, providing more frequent fresh produce regularly, exploring new ways of collecting semen samples, and gathering monkeys in less stressful fashion.

January 12, 2001 UK: A letter bomb was sent to a pet shop in Coventry, it did not explode.

January 11, 2001 CO: Chairman Bernard Black of the Colorado State Wildlife Commission, who is black, reports that Stephanie Tidwell, a part-time staff member for an animal rights organization, called for a lynch mob after a heated meeting about allowing the aerial shooting of coyotes as a way to protect mule deer. Tidwell, according to Black's wife, said after the meeting, "what we need now is a lynch mob." When Dorothy Black told Tidwell to watch her language, the Chairman said three animal rights activists verbally assaulted and intimidated him and his wife. Tidwell later admitted to making an unfortunate statement, the Rocky Mountain Animal Defense organization sent Black a letter communicating regret over the incident. Nicole Rosmarino, the official member of RMAD in attendance at the hearing, denied that she was involved and Bettina Rosmarino says she is no longer actively involved with the group.

January 11, 2001 UK: A letter bomb sent to a fish and chips shop in Flintshire exploded without injury to anyone. Letter bombings since December 15th using the same materials and targeting animal- and research-related enterprises are linked for investigation by authorities. MI5 is called in by the to assist police from several jurisdictions in the investigation.

January 11, 2001 TX: Houston billboard companies joined Cheyenne and Tucson companies in rejecting PETA backed billboards picking on the rodeo and meat-eating. The rodeo board pictures a buxom blond in a black cowboy hat with the words, "No one likes an eight-second ride," and "Buck the rodeo." The anti-meat ad pictures a bikini-clad model holding several large sausages with the words, "I threw a party, but the cattlemen couldn't come." Both boards were rejected for various reasons, including impropriety, offensiveness, sexual explicitness and promoting a political cause rather than goods and services.

January 10, 2001 UK: Animal rights activists were suspected of placing an incendiary device under the car of a prominent fox hunt supporter in Surrey. It ignited, destroying two cars and damaging another. Members of three hunt organizations were told to be on the lookout for attacks after their names and addresses were discovered on an internet "hit list."

January 10, 2001 UK: Cambridgeshire police chief Ben Gunn disclosed that the extra expense for policing the protests at Huntingdon Life Sciences have cost 2.6 million pounds over the past 14 months. He added that the tone of the protests was becoming increasingly bitter.

January 10, 2001 MT: Three protesters were arrested after hindering Department of Livestock efforts to manage bison. Wandering bison are slated for hazing back into Yellowstone or trapping and testing for brucellosis or if elusive, shot. About 20 bison are outside the park. Three organizations also filed 60-day notices of intent to sue Montana and the Federal government for failure to complete a bald eagle survey before building the buffalo trap.

January 9, 2001 Washington DC: PETA publicizes its intent to announce a negative publicity campaign against Burger King tomorrow. It wants Burger King to follow the practices McDonald's moved to after the PETA campaign against them.

January 6, 2001 UK: Attendees at Uttoxeter racecourse evacuated during the fifth race after receipt of a bomb threat at the facility. It was the third time a day of racing had been curtailed because of a bomb threat since cancellation of the Grand National in 1997.

January 6, 2001 UK: 47 beagles were stolen from a hunt kennel in Kent by animal activists. All of the stolen beagles had ID tattoos on their right ears, only 4 remained at the kennel, apparently missed by the activists. (See continuation at February 5, 2001.) As to professed plans of ALF to place the hounds in "safe, loving homes," Dan Murphy, the joint master of the Wye Beagles Hunt, said the hounds would wreak havoc in a domestic environment: "People who think that they are getting a gentle Labrador or collie that will fall asleep in front of the fire are in for a big shock. They are naïve if they think that these hunting animals will become cuddly pets."

January 5, 2001 NY: Animal rights activist Andy Stepanian received a 90-day sentence for breaking a Long Island fur store window. Judge A. Corso had indicated the possibility of a community service sentence earlier, but gave Stepanian 90 days and refused a stay of sentence pending appeal.

January 5, 2001 Philadelphia, PA: The Pride of the Sea, a fish distributor, sustained vandalism damage including slashed truck tires, a punctured radiator, moth balls in the gas tank and glued building locks. Credit for the damage was subsequently claimed by an ALF communique. See January 27th report for additional damage to the same facility.

January 5, 2001 UK: Livestock auction estate agents in East Yorkshire are attacked by letter bomb. One female staff member sustained serious eye injuries from the explosion.

January 5, 2001 UK: A farmer in North Yorkshire was injured by nails from an exploding letter bomb.

January 2, 2001 OR: An ELF arson attack against the Superior Lumber Co. administrative offices in Glendale caused $400,000 damage. This is the third holiday arson against an Oregon timber business in as many years.

December 30, 2000 UK: A mail bomb sent to a pest control company in Cheshire exploded, injuring the owner's 6-year old daughter who was helping her father with the mail. The girl was cut on her legs and feet by shrapnel from the envelope. Authorities suspect animal rights activists in the bombing.

December 30, 2000 NY: ELF arsonists torch three luxury homes under construction and spray graffiti on a fourth in Mt. Sinai on Long Island. Damages amount to $160,000.

December 29, 2000 NY: ALF vandals smashed windows and spray-painted anti-fur slogans on the front of Tres Chic, a Hewlitt, Long Island furrier shop. 10 coats inside the store were doused with with red paint.

December 28, 2000 UK: The ban on fur farming, effective June 2003 will cause closure of a mink farm in north Devon at a cost estimated at more than 6 million pounds. The farm now breeds 30,000 mink a year from a stock of 6,500 adult animals that have been built up over an 80-year selective breeding program. The farm employs 10 full-time and 40 part-time workers, and is one of 13 farms slated for closure by the ban deadline. Part of the farm will be sent to a satellite operation in Denmark, but 6,500 of the mink will have to be killed in the shutdown.

December 26, 2000 UK: Traditional Boxing Day hunting meets, 300 of them, produced clashes between hunting advocates and animal rights protesters. An estimated 325,000 turned out to support the Countryside Alliance in favor of continued hunting activities, while protesters from the Hunt Saboteurs' Association and the League Against Cruel Sports showed up at 120 meets in combined numbers under 500. Much verbal conflict, one arrest, and some hurled eggs and potatoes were the only reported incidents to mar the event.

December 25, 2000 Canada: An ALF communique claimed credit for placing 7 incendiary devices beneath seven trucks at a Burnaby, BC meat distribution company.

December 19, 2000 NY: A house under construction at Miller Place. Long Island, is torched and credit is claimed by ELF, with damages of $50,000.

December 17, 2000 KS: The Kansas City Star discovered a propaganda scheme in its letters to the editor. An animal rights response to an earlier letter concerning fast food chicken matched letters sent under different names to newspapers across the country and in Canada. Each letter had a different local author name attached to it and what appeared to be a local address.

December 16, 2000 CA: Approximately 30 anti-fur activists were arrested in front of Neiman Marcus in Union Square, San Francisco. They locked themselves into metal sleeves in front of the department store in one of their weekly demonstrations against Neiman Marcus participation in fur fashion.

December 15, 2000 UK: Agricultural suppliers in North Yorkshire received a letter bomb that did not explode.

December 12, 2000 UK: HSBC, the world's second-largest bank, "reviewed" its position over Huntingdon Life Sciences shares and opted to sever its ties with HLS. The move followed intense pressure from animal rights protesters.

December 11, 2000 UK: A subcontractor on his way to work for AstraZeneca. a major UK drug company, found cannisters attached to wires inside his van and a black bin liner propped up next to his vehicle. While phoning police inside his home, the van exploded, shaking neighbors in their beds. Due to the type of bomb and the employment connection to the drug company, Police suspect animal rights activists in the blast.

December 11, 2000 Canada: ALF claims credit for the arson destruction of a truck belonging to the Ferry Market warehouse, a meat distributor in Vancouver, BC.

December 9, 2000 NY: A fire causes $200,000 damage in a condo under construction at Middle Island. ELF claims credit, opening "an unbounded war on urban sprawl"

December 6, 2000 NV: Dawn Carr, the animal rights activist who put a tofu pie in the face of newly crowned Miss Rodeo America 2000 last year has been sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay $1,700 restitution for damages done to the dress of 21 year-old Brandy DeJongh.

December 6, 2000 MN: The University of Minnesota's Student Organization for Animal Rights, with California-based In Defense of Animals, is offering a $10,000 reward for anyone who can provide information that a researcher is in violation of animal abuse laws. The announcement preceded a presentation by Matt Rossell, a former employee of the Oregon Primate Research Center who surreptitiously videotaped activities while working at the center and, after quitting, filed a formal USDA complaint jointly with the Animal Legal Defense Fund alleging animal abuse. The university views the act as outrageous, akin to putting a bounty on the head of researchers and other people who are working to find cures for diseases.

December 6, 2000 Washington, DC: A coalition of environmentalists, farm groups and animal activists, spearheaded by fifteen law firms contributing $50,000 each, announced an all-out assault on factory hog farms. They plan to scrutinize Illinois hog operations for possible lawsuits.

December 3, 2000 UK: Police warn Huntingdon Life Sciences personnel and anyone connected to HLS support activities, contracted or financial, that they may become targets of animal rights protesters. The animal rights group has already gone after HLS staff with harassment, intimidation and car bombings, and has also published names and addresses of shareholders on the internet, urging readers to "adopt a director" to harass and intimidate.

One unnamed victim, a retired salesman from Surrey, reported that "They call at all hours, sometimes after midnight and up to eight times a day. This is a form of terrorism and it's very frightening…" He gave police a dossier of hate male and documentation of goods sent to his home by mail order firms. Other shareholders have been mail-ordered collect three-piece suits, garden sheds, sex toys and pornography. The activists are also writing to shareholders' neighbors, sending pictures of mutilated animals and informing them of their neighbor's support for animal experimentation. HLS said the mutilation photograph was not taken on its premises.

December 1, 2000 CA: San Deigo-based Jack In The Box received a letter targeting the fast food franchise chain with a publicity campaign and boycott if it doesn't certify animal usage suitable to PETA's demands. On the heels of its public battle with McDonalds over this same issue, PETA also mailed similar letters to Wendy's, KFC and other fast food companies.

November 30, 2000 VA: The beaver population has exploded, partly because of a program that imported them to restore their numbers, and the results are becoming expensive. USDA calls it an epidemic of destruction of private property, roads and crops. A proposed beaver management plan to rid the area of nuisance rodents is projected to cost as much as $272,000, or $135 per beaver. Ironically, trapping controlled them in the past, when pelts fetched about $30 apiece on the fur market. Today, the price for beaver pelts is around $8 and no one is trapping them.

November 28, 2000 UT: Jeremy Lee Parkin of Salt Lake City was arraigned on multiple felony counts for the release of 30 mink from a fur farm last year and the break-in and destruction of breeding records. Parkin faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted as charged.

November 28, 2000 NC: Three stores in Cary suffered leather and fur merchandise vandalism in the post-Thanksgiving shopping rush. Wilson's Leathers, the Limited and the Gap each discovered slashings and dark marker damage to leather and fur on three consecutive days, amounting to over $5,000 in losses.

November 27, 2000 CO: ELF claims credit for torching one of the first luxury homes under construction in a new Boulder County subdivision, damages $500,000. Activists blame the failure of the voters to defeat a ballot measure controlling growth.

November 22, 2000 UK: The fur farming (prohibition) bill to outlaw in England and Wales the farming of animals for the value of their fur was set for approval today. Effective January 1, 2003, it makes UK the first country to introduce a national ban.

November 21, 2000 OH: PETA is ready to premier advertising against clothing retailer Express for selling leather garments. A 30-second spot produced to curtail the desire for leather urges buyers to "steer clear of Express." Express has been the target of on site protest pressure from PETA since October

November 20, 2000 Germany: A German animal protection charity is being charged with the diversion of more than DM 100 million to secret bank accounts in Switzerland. Reports in the press indicate suspicion that "Deutsches Tierhilfswerk" collected DM 356 million in 1998, but only DM 2 million was actually applied to animal protection projects.

October 28, 2000 OR: Animal rights activists demonstrated outside the Portland home of Oregon Health Sciences University president Peter Kohler, publicizing alleged abuse at OHSU. Former OHSU employee Matt Rossell held a news conference, showing a video intended to portray abuse, and the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a formal complaint with USDA to address the claims of abuse at the University Primate Center.

October 27, 2000 UK: Animal activists throwing rocks at the home and kennels of a major hunt last month caused the erection of a perimeter 10-foot barbed wire steel fence. Last week, more than 100 posters of chief huntsman Mike Brycroft, his wife and their 17-month old child, captioned "Meet the Brycrofts - they kill for fun" were put up in the local area. The Brycrofts are now under police guard as they prepare for the first meet of the season.

October 26, 2000 CT: Animal rights activists bidding on rights to trap on state land hope to deny trapping activity. On the heels of a court challenge that threw out state regulations requiring proof of trapping activity by successful bidders, the activists are ready to spend $36,000 again this year. In 1998, they won bids for 35 parcels amounting to 47,000 acres. In 1999, the court challenge effectively canceled the auction. This year, 160,000 acres is up for grabs on 122 parcels.

October 25, 2000 WI: Tina Kaske, animal rights activist and former public relations director for Alliance for Animals, filed a complaint with police in Madison based on claims that she had been called "trash" and a "terrorist" by talk show host John "Sly" Sylvester. Kaske claimed that Sylvester threatened to give out her home address over the air, that he asked callers to shoot off firearms as a tribute to her, and that an unknnown and ininvited 2 a.m. visitor at her apartment was somehow connected to Sylvester. Kaske left her position as Alliance for Animals spokeswoman because of the negative publicity. Police filed the complaint and never contacted Sylvester "because of his First Amendment rights."

October 23, 2000 UK: Two hunt members received death threats and car bombs. Both were on a publicized list of seven huntsmen considered to be "legitimate targets" by the Hunt Retribution Squad." All seven had received threatening letters on September 4, 2000. Amateur whip David Pitfield's van was destroyed by one bomb in South Nutfield, Surrey. The bomb under a woman hunt member's vehicle in East Sussex, discovered five hours later, did not detonate and was removed by army bomb experts. Both bombs were considered lethal.

October 22, 2000 UT: Animal rights groups are filing a lawsuit challenging Utah's passage of Proposition 5 in 1998, which established a constitutional requirement that citizen-driven initiatives to change the state's wildlife regulations must win 67 percent of the vote in 20 of Utah's 29 counties in order to pass. Plaintiffs in the suit include the Initiative & Referendum Institute of Washington, HSUS, Fund for Animals and Rep. David Jones, D-Salt Lake City.

October 21, 2000 NY: A Moriches, Long Island duck farm lost at least 19 ducks in an ALF activist raid. Some birds were taken, fences were cut to allow the escape of others, and ALF graffiti was spray-painted on buildings.

October 20, 2000 Finland: An estimated 1500 foxes were dyed with henna and breeding cards were removed from a fox farm near Iisalmi. An ALF communique claimed credit for the raid.

October 18, 2000 IN: ELF graffiti accompanied damage to heavy logging equipment in the Martin State Forest. Destruction included cut hoses, smashed gauges and sand poured into fuel tanks and radiators. Damages amounted to $55,000. ELF later claimed credit for the incident.

October 17, 2000 VA: HSUS, Fund for Animals, a coalition of Virginia voters and Philip Hirschkop joined others in filing a lawsuit contending that Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries fact sheets are partisan leaflets supporting a proposed amendment to the state's constitution and that the agency's action amounts to taking a position on the amendment. Plaintiffs seek removal of the fact sheet from distribution around the state and deletion of the same information on the agency's web site.

October 16, 2000 Netherlands: The Dutch ALF claimed responsibility for building damage and torching three meat delivery vans in Rotterdam.

October 16, 2000 Australia: The RSPCA is caught disseminating misinformation about electronic training collars. A look at the campaign also leads to speculation as to the foundation for criminalizing the use of electronic collars in several Australian states, and the source for the Department of Customs definition of electronic collars as an illegal import, along with hand grenades and rocket launchers. During a court proceeding which led to an injunction against the RSPCA, a picture of a dog claimed to have an electronic collar-generated neck burn was found to have been a picture of a dog with an infection, not a burn. A photo of an RSPCA officer's arm showed three "burn" marks corresponding to the three probes of a No-Bark collar while the middle probe is actually plastic and conducts no electricity. Innotek Australia also introduced evidence of university research showing a collar's output to be 3000 times less than an electric fence, 50 times below the human threshold of pain and 6 times less than static electricity.

October 14, 2000 South Africa: Animal wildlife expert Ron Thomson, former head of Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, sounded an elephant overpopulation alarm, noting that with elephant numbers doubling every ten years, huge swaths of Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana would be reduced to an uninhabitable desert. Thomson, calling for a lifting of the ivory trade ban, accused animal rights groups of hijacking the conservation debate by putting the sanctity of elephants above all else. "This is a fundamental error. It will lead to the destruction of the soil and plants which sustains them along with countless other species." Thomson estimated that half of the current 200,000 elephant population would have to be culled in order to avoid massive desertification problems.

October 14, 2000 MA: A security system warning apparently headed off a mink release in Hinsdale. At least two trespassers had cut 25 feet of fencing and entered sheds but were unsuccessful in releasing mink.

October 9, 2000 Norway: Animal rights activists released more than 1500 mink at a farm in southern Norway. About half were captured, but many of them were at risk of dying from exposure suffered during the release.

October 7, 2000 PA: Fund for Animals and others joined as plaintiffs in a lawsuit aimed at preventing a state-controlled bobcat hunt designed to reduce the bobcat population in the state by 5%. Bobcats are not endangered or threatened in the state.

October 6, 2000 WA: 29 animal rights activists are suing the city for civil rights violations connected with their arrest and detention at an anti-fur demonstration during the Democratic National Convention in Seattle. Claims include being forced to sit handcuffed or stand with their hands behind their heads in the sun for hours without water, vegetarian food, or medical attention, being strip searched and having been prohibited from calling lawyers. Charges against 41 of the 42 people arrested in the demonstration were eventually dismissed.

October 3, 2000 Washington DC: USDA agreed in an out of court settlement to expand its regulation of research animals to include rats, mice and birds. The agreement is the result of a lawsuit instituted by the American Anti-Vivisection Society, an animal rights group. The cost to biomedical laboratories is estimated to be $80-90 million if implemented. The agreement has yet to be approved by a federal judge.

September 26, 2000 Denmark: ALF vandals released more than 4000 mink from two Danish farms overnight, one near Soeroe and the other near Frederikssund.

September 25, 2000 Denmark: ALF vandals released 8000 mink in a night time raid at a fur farm near Frederikssund.

September 26, 2000 CA: Protesters at Bouvray Furs, a Los Angeles jewelry store, were arrested after an incident caught on videotape where two demonstrators kicked the locked security screen to the store. 42 animal rights activists were arrested, two were charged. One wound up going before a judge. The convicted protester, when finally identified by the court, was wanted in Illinois for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and had a prior conviction for aggravated sexual assault.

September 24, 2000 CA: Four protesters locked themselves together at the neck in an anti-fur demonstration at Bloomingdale's, Sherman Oaks. Store personnel surrounded the protesters with curtains and turned on music to drown out the chanting until police arrived. Two adults were held in jail in lieu of $10,000 bail and two juveniles were released to their parents.

September 17, 2000 OR: ALF activists struck Sunshine Dairy Foods, the smallest dairy in Portland, causing $3000 damage to vans, refrigerated trucks and a building.

September 28, 2000 NY: Andrew Stepanian, president of the Animal Defense League, was convicted of criminal mischief for throwing wooden logs through the window of a Huntington, Long Island fur store. Stepanian's cohort in the night time attack pled guilty to one count of fourth-degree criminal mischief on May 19th and was sentenced to 45 days in jail and given three months probation. Stepanian faces two and one-third to seven years in prison, with sentencing to be pronounced on November 17, 2000.

September 20, 2000 VA: In a night time raid, vandals painted golden arches on the front of PETA's Norfolk headquarters and threw raw ground meat at the building.

September 17, 2000 Finland: ALF raiders returned to the Christer Ronlunds mink farm which was raided three days earlier and this time released 2000 to 2500 mink.

September 14, 2000 Finland: The Finnish ALF raided the Christer Ronlunds mink farm near Voyri, releasing 600 mink.

September 13, 2000 NC: ALF forces claim credit for the release of 20 cats from the Gaston County Animal Shelter. Subsequent damage assessment by the County revealed destroyed fencing enclosures, a broken door and the absence of 58 cats which had been rounded up as part of an anti-rabies initiative to protect staff and students at nearby Belmont Abbey College.

September 12, 2000 Faroe Islands: A Faroese court fined Paul Watson $37,000 (US) or 60 days in prison in the case of nonpayment. The penalty was based on Watson's violation of Faroe Island immigration laws when he entered Faroese waters with the vessel "Ocean Warrior" to protest a Faroese pilot whale hunt this past summer. Watson, unwelcome in Faroese waters and persona non grata in all the Nordic countries, chose to be judged in absentia.

September 11, 2000 IL: The National Dairy Council and the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board went on the offensive, noting that the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and PETA are trying, with their current anti-milk campaign, to generate media coverage on an animal rights agenda based on little fact and no actual news. Both dairy organizations point out that PCRM's milk-cancer connection views have been repeatedly denounced by the American Medical Association, National Osteoporosis Foundation and the American Council on Science and Health. In fact, the researchers who conducted the health study used by PCRM to support their publicity campaign disagree with PCRM's position on the issue.

September 9, 2000 IN: A fire at the Republican Party Committee Headquarters in Bloomington caused $1,500 damage to the exterior of the building. A communique from ELF claimed credit, blaming plans to extend an interstate highway, stating that the arson was "a reminder to politicians…that we are watching and that we will not sit idly by as they push for plans like I-69."

September 5, 2000 UK: In a partial summary of protest and intimidation, Huntingdon Life Sciences reports that their 750-employee facility receives about 500 abusive telephone calls per day, 200 at the switchboard and 300 directly to extensions within the system. All calls are recorded. Examples include, "You torturer, I hope you get cancer." "If I saw you on the street, I would stab you in the face." "You f** animal torturer, you animal abuser, you f** bitch." "I hope you get cancer, I hope you get murdered on the way home from work today." Employees of HLS also receive similarly intimidating mail at their homes.

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, 2000 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 31, 1999, Fulton County, GA: ALF torches a McDonalds restaurant. 1998, Belgium: The ALF claimed responsibility for nine attacks against McDonalds and another fast food restaurant.

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.

August 16, 1997, West Jordan, UT: ALF burned a McDonalds to the ground, causing $400,000 in damages.

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.

June 29, 1997, Crystal City, VA: 200 Animal Rights activists harassed customers and employees at a McDonalds, blocking the restaurant's driveway for two hours. Police in riot gear used pepper spray to disburse the crowd. Eighteen people were arrested on criminal trespass charges, and three face additional charges of vandalism for throwing food.

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, Troy MI: The ALF attacked a McDonalds with a foul-smelling chemical, and spray-painted "McS---, McMurder, McDeath" on the bathroom walls.

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.

October 14, 1996, Eugene, OR: The ELF spray-painted graffiti and glued locks at a McDonalds.

11/10/92 Minneapolis, Minnesota: Swanson Meats* Arson $100,000+

10/24/92 Logan, Utah: Utah State University Break-in/Arson $110,000

2/28/92 Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University East Break-in/Arson $125,000

6/10/91 Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Break-in/Arson Vandalism 75,000

7/1/89 Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Break-in $50,000-70,000

4/2/89 Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Break-in /Arson/ Theft $250,000

1/29/89 Dixon, California: Dixon Livestock Building* Arson/Vandalism $250,000

8/15/88 Loma Linda, California: Loma Linda University: Break-in/Theft $10,000

6/5/88 San Jose, California: Sun Valley Meat Packing Company* Arson/Vandalism $300,000

11/28/87 Santa Clara, California: V. Melani Poultry* Arson/Vandalism $230,000

11/25/87 San Jose, California: Ferrara Meat Company* Arson $420,000

9/1/87 Santa Clara, California: San Jose Valley Veal & Beef Co., Arson $35,000

4/16/87 Davis, California: University of California, Davis Arson/Vandalism $4,500,000

12/6/86 Bethesda, Maryland: SEMA Corporation* and National Institutes of Health, Theft $100,000

11/24/86 Wilton, California: Omega and HMS Turkey Ranches* Theft/Vandalism, 12,000

10/26/86 Eugene, Oregon: University Of Oregon Break-in/Theft $50,000

5/1/86 Gilroy, California: Simonsen Laboratories* Vandalism $165,000

4/20/85 Riverside, California: University of California-Riverside Break-in/Theft $600,000

12/9/84 Duarte, California: City of Hope Research Inst.* and Medical Center, Break-in Theft $400,000-$500,000

5/29/84 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Break-in/Theft $20,000

12/25/83 Torrance, California: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Break-in/Theft $58,000