ELF fairy tales: agents provocateurs.ON JANUARY 13 the Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to some other federal agency. nabbed three members of the Earth Liberation Front The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for anonymous and autonomous individuals or groups that, according to the now defunct Earth Liberation Front Press Office, use "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Auburn, California Auburn is the county seat of Placer County, California, USA. The population was 12,462 at the 2000 census. It is well-known for its California Gold Rush history and boasts one of the best preserved historic downtowns in the state. . The FBI triumphantly claimed to have foiled the would-be bombers of power stations, research facilities, and California's Nimbus Dam The Nimbus Dam is a base load hydroelectric dam on the American River near Folsom, California. External links
Eco-activists Eric McDavid, Lauren Weiner, and Zachary Jensen lived in California with an FBI agent known as Anna, who had met McDavid at a 2004 anarchist event. Jensen has already pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge. But McDavid's attorney, Mark Reichel, claims his client and his friends were "three idiots" who couldn't have planned any attack. According to the bureau's documents, Anna had rented the house; her "terrorist cell" was too lazy to plan anything larger than a vegan vegan /veg·an/ (ve´gan) (vej´an) a vegetarian whose diet excludes all food of animal origin. ve·gan n. meal. Audiotapes recorded Anna pressing the activists to study bomb-making chemistry, at one point complaining that "you guys change your mind a lot" and "it seems like you guys don't want to do it at all." |
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