By Conrad Wilson (OPB) What a 20-year-old arson says about domestic terrorism today In the 1990s, some knew Joseph Mahmoud Dibee as “Seattle.” It was his codename, according to his FBI wanted poster. Today, the former international fugitive is stuck in Seattle, confined by a house-arrest order and awaiting trial on federal charges, including allegations he participated …
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Mar 03
Judge Issues Release in Oregon Eco-Terrorist Case
By Jeff Reynolds, An Oregon judge has released an alleged domestic ecoterrorist charged in the 1997 arson of a Redmond meatpacking plant after he tested positive for coronavirus. Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, who was allegedly a member of the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front, was free for decades until he was arrested in …
Feb 28
Rooster kills Indian man during banned cockfight
By OMER FAROOQ ASSOCIATED PRESS HYDERABAD, India — A man was killed by a rooster with a blade tied to its leg during an illegal cockfight in southern India, police said, bringing focus to a practice that continues in some Indian states despite a decades-old ban. The rooster, with a 3-inch knife tied to its leg, fluttered …
Feb 24
Hunters Kill 178 Wolves in 72 Hours (Wisconsin, USA)
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hunters and trappers blew past Wisconsin’s wolf kill target in less than 72 hours, forcing a premature end to a hunt that initially wasn’t supposed to happen for another nine months and raising the ire of animal rights activists. The Department of Natural Resources closed the …
Feb 18
Slow Burn From Seattle to Syria, from Russia to an arrest in Cuba, an ecosaboteur and 12-year fugitive now awaits trial before a Eugene judge
BY ARDESHIR TABRIZIAN Eugene Weekly En route to Havana, Cuba, on May 21, 2018, a man identifying himself as “Yousef Deba” was stopped by El Salvadorian authorities after he showed his passport and travel documents. He was photographed, his eye was scanned, he was twice fingerprinted and his electronics were searched. His biometric data matched information …
Feb 02
New Mom Risks It All To ‘Liberate Animals’ From Inhumane Farms
She even claims that she’s ready to go to jail for her crimes, even though she has a 15-week-old newborn daughter. BY JAMES GUTTMAN Babygaga.com Tuesday Goti has devoted her life to the protection of animals, but there are those who feel that the vegan activist may have taken things too far. The mother from Ireland has …
Jan 09
Oregon judge ends pre-trial custody of Joseph Dibee, who faces decades old eco-terrorism charges
Conrad Wilson OPB.org (Oregon) U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken said during a hearing Friday she would release Joseph Dibee from pre-trial custody. Dibee, who is currently housed in Multnomah County’s Inverness Jail, is a federal inmate charged as part of an eco-terrorism conspiracy to destroy government property by arson. Days before Christmas, Dibee tested …
Dec 26
Animal Liberation Prisoner Joseph Dibee Contracts Covid-19 in Prison
Cluster of COVID-19 cases in Multnomah County jail appears to grow by Conrad Wilson OPB.org Multnomah County is currently dealing with its largest outbreak of COVID-19 inside its jails since the pandemic began. As of Wednesday, nine inmates across two facilities had tested positive. The sheriff’s office announced an initial case on Dec. 17, stating …
Dec 08
Man fatally shoots son while deer hunting in Delaware County
Alissa Widman Neese The Columbus Dispatch An Elyria man unintentionally shot and killed his 28-year-old son while deer hunting in Delaware County last week. Bradley Smith, 63, apparently mistook his son, Andrew Smith of Columbus, for a deer while hunting at dusk, said Tracy Whited, spokeswoman for the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office. More:Hunters preparing for deer gun …
Dec 03
“Eco-fascists” Charged with Arson on a Mink Farm (Sweden)
Henrik Lilja Rönnquist ProjektSanning The two accused have a connection to violent right-wing extremism and ecofascism Two young men have been charged with arson on a mink farm in Sölvesborg in Blekinge. In October last year, it started to burn heavily on a mink farm in Sölvesborg municipality in Blekinge. The building burned to the ground and …
Dec 02
A hunter was fatally shot in Minnesota by another hunter when he was mistaken for a deer
And now for some Christmas cheer…. By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN (CNN)A man hunting in Minnesota last week was fatally shot when another hunter mistook him for a deer. The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that it received a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Red Lake Tribal Police on November 25 that they …
Nov 19
Ireland signals likely end to fur farming with cull of 120,000 mink
Politico BY SHAWN POGATCHNIK Dublin’s efforts to suppress the spread of the coronavirus are spurring an early end to the trade. DUBLIN — Ireland is ordering the nation’s three mink farms to cull all of their 120,000 animals, signaling a likely end to Irish fur farming after years of debate and delay. Mink farming became an …
Nov 18
Campaigners Call for Fur Trade to End as Millions of Mink Culled
Newsweek BY BASIT MAHMOOD While news of the decision to gas and burn 17 million mink in Denmark to halt the spread of a COVID-19 mutation from humans to animals made global headlines, what has often been missed is that the mink would have been killed regardless because of demand for their fur. The only difference …
Nov 06
Undercover police officer Bob Lambert ‘planted Debenhams firebomb’
The Times (UK) by Fiona Hamilton An undercover police officer who infiltrated an animal rights group was yesterday accused of planting a firebomb at a department store. Activists convicted of the attack on three branches of Debenhams in 1987 believe that Bob Lambert, an undercover police officer, put down one of the devices, a public …
Nov 04
SPIES AND LIES How undercover cops had sex with innocent women they were spying on & even had KIDS with them in shocking police scandal
The Sun (UK) by Miranda Knox GLANCING at the passport of her boyfriend of six years, Lisa’s* heart pounded and a wave of nausea washed over her. The couple were on holiday in Italy, and while looking for her sunglasses in the car’s glovebox, she’d stumbled across the document – which revealed, to her shock, …