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U.S. judge to rule if arsons were terror EUGENE, Ore., May 15: Legal arguments before a Eugene, Ore., judge began Tuesday on whether 10 environmentalists who confessed to arsons committed acts of terror. The six men and four women were members either of the radical Earth Liberation Front or Animal Liberation Front, and were convicted of the fires in the U.S. Northwest that did as much as $40 million in damage to various facilities, but caused no physical injuries. Federal prosecutors will attempt to persuade U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken several of the defendants qualify as committing acts of domestic terror, which could add 20 years to each of their sentences, the Eugene Register Guard reported. It would also mean they serve sentences in the toughest federal prisons. The group was rounded up under the country's largest-ever sweep of radical environmentalists code-named Operation Backfire. Under federal law the sentence for each ultimately up to Aiken regardless of any <file:///C:/Program%20Files/Common%20Files/Microsoft%20Shared/Stationery/#> plea bargains or even her own ruling on whether the crimes were acts of terror, the report said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
