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Article: Invasion of the ELFs: the radical Earth Liberation Front opens up a Canadian front with a summer of destruction.(ENVIRONMENT)
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- Western Standard
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- September 25, 2006
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Last January, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that a massive police initiative code-named Operation Backfire had resulted in the indictment of 11 members of a terror cell. The Family, a radical, violent environmental group, was aligned with the outlaw Earth Liberation Front and had been linked to 16 arson and vandalism attacks in the western U.S. between 1996 and 2001. Six members of the gang, including Canadian Darren Thurston, who was twice convicted of similar crimes in Edmonton in the early 1990s, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and arson charges in July. The rest, as well as two others, are now either on the lam or have been arrested and now face trial ...