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 * Domestic Terrorist Groups **

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**Earth Liberation Front (ELF)--** Environmentalist group held responsible for acts of eco-terrorism throughout the United States =====
 * =====Goal: use economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment =====
 * =====Recent activities in the U.S.: March 3, 2008 when explosive devices set fire to four multi-million dollar homes from the 2007 Seattle Street of Dreams in Echo Lake, Washington, costing $7 million in damage; On September 4, 2009 ELF claimed responsibility for using a stolen excavator to overturn two AM radio towers belonging to station KRKO near Seattle, Washington =====

**Animal Liberation Front (ALF)--** Animal Rights group.

 * =====Goal: engages in illegal direct action in pursuit of animal liberation =====
 * =====Recent Activities in the U.S.: As of 2008, activists were increasingly taking protests to the homes of researchers, staging "home demonstrations," which can involve making noise during the night, writing slogans on the researchers' property, smashing windows, and spreading rumors to neighbors =====

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**Andrew Joseph Stack III(1956-2010)**--Apparant suicide/homicide pilot who crashed his plane into an office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Feb. 18, 2010. =====
 * =====Goal: To destroy the IRS building and send a message to the U.S. government and other federal agencies about corruption. =====
 * =====Why: His Suicide note begins by expressing displeasure with the government, the bailout of financial institutions, politicians, the conglomerate companies of General Motors, Enron and Arthur Andersen, unions, drug and health care insurance companies, and the Catholic Church. He then describes his life as an engineer; including his meeting with a poor widow who never got the pension benefits she was promised, the effect of the Section 1706 of Tax Reform Act of 1986 on independent contractor engineers, the September 11 attacks airline bailouts that only benefited the airlines but not the suffering engineers and how a CPA he hired seemed to side with the government to take extra tax money from him. =====