May 27, 2005

2 Groups Called Terror Threat

By JEFFREY SELINGO

Attacks by two extremist groups, one of which has been tied to numerous acts of vandalism against research facilities at universities, are growing in both frequency and size and represent one of the most serious domestic-terrorism threats today, federal law-enforcement officials told a Senate panel last week.

The Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front have claimed credit for 1,100 incidents of vandalism that have caused more than $110-million in damage in the past five

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