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October 18, 2001
Some Terrorists Never Change
Animal rights extremists may have been responsible for a bioterror scare at Michigan State University (MSU) last Friday. "An unknown white substance" was found in a piece of mail -- and university spokesman Terry Denbow "suggested that an animal rights group was responsible." Though the substance turned out to be harmless, it wouldn't have been the first extremist attack on the school: In December 1999, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) set fire to the office of MSU's Dr. Catherine Ives, who was developing disease-resistant crops to help feed people in Africa.
Rather than laying down their arms after September 11, ELF and its counterpart Animal Liberation Front (ALF) seem to be embracing terrorism. Federal agents are investigating a fire and as many as four unexploded incendiary devices found at a government animal holding pen in Nevada Monday -- a site where animal rights extremists committed arson in 1991. And ALF set fire to the Coulston Foundation primate research facility nine days after the terrorist attacks on the U.S., "showing the domestic terrorist group would not let up," The Oregonian's Bryan Denson writes.
Said one security expert: "Our nation was under attack from external forces. And to have one of our own people -- one of our own citizens -- do a mindless and meaningless attack on the Coulston Foundation, I just find that repugnant."
Animal rights extremists may have been responsible for a bioterror scare at Michigan State University (MSU) last Friday. "An unknown white substance" was found in a piece of mail -- and university spokesman Terry Denbow "suggested that an animal rights group was responsible." Though the substance turned out to be harmless, it wouldn't have been the first extremist attack on the school: In December 1999, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) set fire to the office of MSU's Dr. Catherine Ives, who was developing disease-resistant crops to help feed people in Africa.
Rather than laying down their arms after September 11, ELF and its counterpart Animal Liberation Front (ALF) seem to be embracing terrorism. Federal agents are investigating a fire and as many as four unexploded incendiary devices found at a government animal holding pen in Nevada Monday -- a site where animal rights extremists committed arson in 1991. And ALF set fire to the Coulston Foundation primate research facility nine days after the terrorist attacks on the U.S., "showing the domestic terrorist group would not let up," The Oregonian's Bryan Denson writes.
Said one security expert: "Our nation was under attack from external forces. And to have one of our own people -- one of our own citizens -- do a mindless and meaningless attack on the Coulston Foundation, I just find that repugnant."
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