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Article: INFORMATION ISSUED BY U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR OREGON ON JUNE 5: ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT, EARTH LIBERATION FRONT MEMBERS SENTENCED IN OREGON FOR ACTS OF ECO-TERRORISM IN FIVE WESTERN STATES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- June 5, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for Oregon issued the following press release:
Today U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken sentenced the final defendant in the conspiracy case involving twenty acts of arson committed by members of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). The ten defendants acted in an underground cell of what they called "The Family." In their previously entered guilty pleas, the defendants acknowledged that they, and their group, sought to influence and affect the conduct of government, private business, and the civilian population through force, violence, sabotage, mass destruction, intimidation and coercion, and to ...