Ecoterrorism Gets Much Worse

The Earth Liberation Front has become more aggresive, and ecoterrorism has become the most serious type of domestic terrorism in the country today.

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September 26, 2002, 4:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"Arson and death threats have followed ecoterrorists' call for more use of force.... An environmental group, the Earth Liberation Front, claimed responsibility for the devastating fires atop Vail Mountain that gutted a ski lodge and caused millions of dollars in damage, in one of the costliest cases of ecoterrorism ever seen in the United States."

Thanks to Chris Steins

Read the full story: In US, a rise of violent environmental tactics

Thursday, September 26, 2002 in The Christian Science Monitor

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