yeah... it's not like these upstanding terrorists would ever turn over and rat on their fellow scum of the earth now is it???
Posted on 01/19/2006 5:07:10 PM PST by BurbankKarl
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Federal agents have arrested two more people in the investigation into a string of Northwest arsons claimed by the shadowy radical groups Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front.
Criminal complaints filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene name the first suspect in the 1997 arson of a horse slaughterhouse in Redmond, Ore., for which ALF claimed responsibility, and another person accused of torching the offices of the Superior Lumber Co. in Glendale, now known as Swanson Group, in 2001, for which the ELF said it was responsible.
Both were to appear in U.S. District Court in Medford on Thursday afternoon. They each face up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
The FBI arrested Jonathan Mark Christopher Paul, 39, on Tuesday outside Ashland, said FBI spokeswoman Bethanne Steele.
The complaint alleged he firebombed the Cavel West horsemeat packing plant in Redmond on July 21, 1997 with an unnamed woman.
Suzanne Nicole "India" Savoie, 28, of Applegate surrendered to the FBI Thursday, Steele said. The complaint charged she served 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. They include two lumber mill offices, a tree farm, an SUV dealer, and two federal research labs.
Authorities have also linked two of the earlier suspects to a fire at a Vail, Colo., ski resort, but no one has been charged in that arson. Of the seven, four are being held without bail, one is free on bail, one committed suicide in jail, and one remains a fugitive.
According to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Paul E. Caldwell, Jr., an unidentified informant involved in the horsemeat packing plant fire told investigators that Paul and an unidentified woman set the blaze using five-gallon plastic buckets filled with a mix of gasoline, diesel oil and soap that were ignited by an electronic timer.
The buckets have been a signature of ELF and ALF fires.
Paul prepared the fuel mix, adding soap shavings so it would form a gel and burn more slowly, the affidavit said. They did a dry-run a week before. The night of the fire, one of the buckets went off unexpectedly, igniting a fireball, and two didn't ignite, according to the affidavit.
The ALF claimed responsibility for the fire. It caused an estimated $1 million in damage, but 100 horses in nearby corrals survived. The communique from ALF said the arsonists also poured hydrochloric acid in air conditioning vents to taint any meat that survived the fire.
Cavel has been criticized by animal-rights groups for slaughtering wild horses rounded up from U.S. Bureau of Land Management lands in the West. The Belgian-owned company never rebuilt the Redmond plant, but continues to operate one in DeKalb, Ill.
James Tucker, general manager of the Cavel International Inc. plant in DeKalb, Ill., said the company no longer handles BLM horses, but may have to close its last U.S. plant in March if Congress passes a bill that would stop funding for federal inspectors for horse meat.
"It's long overdue," Tucker said of the arrest. "From my readings of other ALF activities, they don't seem to have any qualms about taking illegal action to make their point."
An FBI affidavit against Savoie said she was the girlfriend of Daniel McGowan at the time, and they both served as lookouts in the Superior Lumber fire. McGowan of New York City is being held without bail in Eugene on charges he helped torch Superior Lumber as well as a tree farm in Clatskanie. Earth Liberation Front took responsibility for both fires.
This is why the far left is so worried about warrantless phone intercepts. They are convinced this is how these eco-nuts are getting caught.
Well, I think some provisions of the Patriot Act helped.
yeah... it's not like these upstanding terrorists would ever turn over and rat on their fellow scum of the earth now is it???
And in Chicago, they all vote Democratic -- especially the dead ones.
Sounds like they are closing in on Jim McDermott.
This guy shoud get a few extra years for having to many first names.
I'm sure Hollywood will be producing TV and movie scripts featuring ecoterrorist villains any day now.
Give 'em the death penalty.
Boy, that would be poetic justice if they nailed his sorry a$$ as an accomplice.
I'm trying to figure out how to set up a "sting." Pull 'em in to a location, and let 'em have it with pig feces. One thing about these clowns, I bet they can be infiltrated fairly easily.
Send em to Gitmo.
I hope they get incredibly harsh sentences in maximum security prisons. Make an example of the scum.
i know what you mean, a big sign saying Free Tofu maybe...???
Shoot, just go to DU. That's were most of 'em hang out.
They are Marxist/Leninists domestic terrorists using ecology as a reason to create havoc.
They will, but he'll run back over to Baghdad to see Saddam when they do!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!
They're burning buildings that will then call for what, more wood. They're supposed to be friends of the trees?
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