“The Animal Liberation Front has a more checkered history of damaging property and leaving an incendiary device on someone’s doorstep, but there’s no way to tell if Aghdam had any loyalty to them. “No one knows who is and who isn’t part of the ALF, it’s an underground anonymous organization,” Will Hazlitt, a spokesman for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, told Newsweek.
Part of the ALF credo is that no harm should come to humans, so this couldn’t have been under the ALF banner, Hazlitt said. “This type of action would not be considered an ALF action since its primary objective is the injuring of people,” he said.”