FBI: ECO-MILITANTS GREATEST TERRORIST THREAT

2005-05-27

Richard Moore

Friends,

On one level, this attitude by the FBI can be considered
totally absurd. But at another level, it makes perfect sense.
That is to say, there are no real terrorists, and the FBI
knows it. The label "terrorist" actually means anyone who is
an obstacle to neoliberalism or U.S. world conquest. Anyone
who cares about the environment counts in both categories.

rkm

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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 08:38:15 -0400
Subject: ECO-MILITANTS ARE GREATEST THREAT, WARNS FBI
From: The Wisdom Fund <•••@••.•••>
To: Richard Moore  <•••@••.•••>

May 20, 2005
The Guardian (UK)

ECO-MILITANTS ARE GREATEST THREAT, WARNS FBI
by David Usborne


The FBI has sounded a new and surprising alarm, suggesting
environmental and animal-welfare militants are now the biggest
terrorist threat in the US, increasingly using incendiary
devices on targets ranging from housing developments and
research laboratories to car dealerships.

John Lewis, the agency's deputy assistant director for
counter-terrorism, told a senate committee in Washington that
the militant groups were "way out in front" in economic
damage. He also suggested it would not be long before loss of
human life was added to their tally of crimes.

"There is nothing else going on in this country over the past
several years that is racking up the high number of violent
crimes and terrorist actions," he told senators, prompting
some Democrats on the panel to warn against tagging all
environmental and animal rights organisations with the same
label.

The hearing, held by the Senate Environment and Public Works
Committee, was an unusual detour from the US government's more
familiar preoccupation with terrorist threats from foreign
groups such as al-Qa'ida. The FBI said it has 150
investigations into 1,200 crimes allegedly committed by
eco-terrorists and animal welfare militants between 1990 and
2004. . . .

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