[news] Brooklyn: Government Charges Local Man as Eco-Terrorist

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

McGowan was one of 14 people apprehended between December and March 2006 as part of Operation Backfire. All were indicted on federal charges of arson, property destruction, and conspiracy. The charges against McGowan—which he denies—stem from two 2001 arsons, one at the Superior Lumber Company in Glendale, Oregon and the other at Jefferson Poplar Farms outside of Portland. No one was injured in either blaze. The Earth Liberation Front, a decentralized underground movement that boasts of using "direct action to sabotage corporations and government agencies that profit from the destruction of the natural environment," took credit for them.

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