Domestic TERRORIST GROUP
PROFILES
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Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Other Names: North American ELF
From: Domestic Terror: What It Holds For The New
Millennium, an original report from MILNET at http://www.milnet.com/milnet/domestic/Dom-Terror.htlm
Description
Violent, high-tech ecological activists protesting de-foresting, use of
bio-tech designed seeds and crops.
Activities
While this organization's members have yet to be convicted, they have claimed
responsibility for acts against U.S. Forest service stations and equipment,
since they claim the Forest Service is not doing their job to protect the
forests, as well as several lumber yard fires. Is believed to also
have set fire to a bio-altered seeds in sheds in Visalia, California and
an eastern franchise of the group claimed to have vandzalized building
sites on Long Island, New York in protest against building on vanishing
open space sites there.
Strength
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Location/Area of Operation
Headquarters in the Northwest but may have copy cat organization on the
East Coast.
External Aid
Local aid from sympathizers
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Created: 3/01
Last Updated: 3/01
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