Woman pleads guilty in alleged plot to blow up Forest Service lab

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Full article: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14702085.htm

Alternate AP headline: Woman Pleads Guilty in Ecoterror Case

Nobody likes a terrorist.

"Weapon of Mass Destruction" Targets Sex Shop In Waldo

By Grayson Kamm
First Coast News

WALDO, FL -- Detectives say it's an act of local terrorism. An adult bookstore is cleaning up after a chemical attack by a homemade device that investigators are calling a "weapon of mass destruction."

In Waldo, people have held prayer vigils and protests aimed at an adult bookstore along US 301, trying to keep the "Cafe Risque" from opening its doors on time.

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The device, discovered Sunday morning, was made of two gallon-size sports drink jugs connected by hoses. Someone set it on top of the store's window air conditioning unit.

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Homemade -- but mighty effective -- the device had HAZMAT teams in full gear Sunday morning. By Monday, clean-up teams had stripped the room bare. Everything that was inside is now outside. The contaminated trash filled two dumpsters.


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Under state law, by the book, deputies say the device is a weapon of mass destruction.

"They're looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, and... 30 years in jail," Faulk said.

"You're trying to hurt people. You're trying to change their ideas or instill fear. And that's exactly what the terrorists do. So this person is a local terrorist," he said.

More:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=58393



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College student says thought arson was "God's will"

Knoxville (AP) - A grand jury in Knoxville will decide whether to charge a bible college student in the burning of an adult bookstore.

Twenty-year-old Benjamin Daniel warren told authorities he put on a ninja outfit and torched the bookstore, believing he was doing God's will. According to the statement, Warren was later involved in a car crash, which convinced him God was punishing him for it.

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The owner of the Town and Country Book Store says the blaze cost him as much as $600,000 in product and as much as $300,000 in the loss of the building.

The Knoxville News Sentinel reviewed documents that showed Warren lived near the bookstore in Powell and had been attending Crown College, also in Powell, about six miles northwest of Knoxville.

More:
http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4865245

Just wondering.

"The three planned to act in the name of the Earth Liberation Front, a shadowy group of environmental activists, investigators said. However, the FBI infiltrated the group with an undercover informant. The FBI covertly rented the group a cabin in Dutch Flat, outside Auburn, after agents wired the cabin for audio and video surveillance ."

...would want to blow it up. It's a rather small facility dedicated to improving the genetic stock of western conifers. It was built during the 1920's I believe and has a real Sierra foothills feel. It's a really neat place, very quiet and sequestered.

and ANY genetic engineering is a target, real or symbolic. these kids are 20 years old - they DON'T understand the science. would they bomb Gregor Mendel's monastery?

ELF i have less problems with. Hummer dealerships are uncool, no gray areas.

to call this 'Terror', though, demeans terrorism.

They are an insult to us real ones.

I mean, since you've thrown it out there, environmentalist...

do things under the ELF name but that doesn't mean they have the Earth's best interest at heart or what they do is with the approvel or consent of Earth First.

These kids were apparently set up by a paid informant with previous infiltration experience ("Anna," seen here http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1796902.php) taken to a cabin she claimed was owned by a relative which was wired for sound and video by law enforcement and pretty much hand held through the whole thing by this woman. They have a fabulous case for entrapment, the girl who flipped must be an idiot or represented by one.

Anyhow, you can follow the case at indybay.org Latest article here: http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/05/1826281.php