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The FBI expanded its list of "Most Wanted
Terrorists" Tuesday to include domestic
"terrorism" for the first time, adding a US
citizen wanted for bombings of two corporate
offices in California in 2003.
Daniel Andreas San Diego, 31, a fugitive
animal rights activist, was put on the list
because the FBI hopes the public will
provide tips leading to his arrest, said
Michael Heimbach, assistant FBI director for
counter-terrorism.
"One of the main purposes of putting him in
the Most Wanted Terrorists list today is the
hope it will generate new, fresh leads.
We've run our course, and basically have
come to a dead end."
San Diego, who the FBI believes may be
hiding out in Costa Rica, is sharing a
roster that includes Al-Qaeda leaders Osama
bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri as well as the
lists only other American, Adam Gadahn, an
Al-Qaeda propagandist.
Heimbach noted that the list, created in
2001 after the September 11 attacks,
previously had been reserved for
international terrorists indicted on charges
of violence against US interests.
San Diego was indicted in July 2004 with
possession of an explosive device and
"maliciously" damaging and attempting to
damage property with explosives.
He was accused in two bombings -- in August
and September 2003 -- of San Francisco Bay
area biotechnology companies targeted for
their association with a British-based
company that performed laboratory testing on
animals.
The bombings, which occurred in the early
hours outside the companies' front lobbies,
caused damage but no deaths or injuries.
"Does he rise to the stature of Osama bin
Laden? No," Heimbach said.
"But indeed, three acts of (violence) in
which explosives were used, potentially
where somebody could be injured or killed,
is quite concerning," he said.
Heimbach said he knew of no recent or
current plotting involving San Diego but the
FBI was concerned about a spike in extremist
violence in the United States.
"Animal rights-environmental extremism
remains a significant threat based on the
economic damage and widespread nature of
this threat," he said. He estimated the
damage from past attacks at 110 million
dollars.
He said other domestic terrorist suspects
were under consideration for the the list
but the FBI decided to focus first on San
Diego before expanding it further.
The California bombings came amid a campaign
against Huntington Life Sciences, the
British-based research company, that has
included death threats, vandalism and
harassment of employees, according to the
FBI.
San Diego became a suspect in the 2003
bombings when investigators found that he
had been stopped by police for a traffic
violation an hour before the second bombing
in Pleasanton, California.
Apparently aware he was under FBI
surveillance, he vanished before authorities
issued a warrant for his arrest October 5.
A search of his residence in October, 2003
turned up bomb-making components and animal
rights literature, according to the FBI. He
was formally indicted in July 2004.
Heimbach said the FBI is "pretty confident
he's not in the United States" and leads
from its investigation indicate he has ties
to Germany and Costa Rica.
He said the FBI was in close contact with
the Costa Rican government.
Calling him a "committed vegan," the FBI
said San Diego possessed a 9-mm handgun and
should be considered armed and dangerous.
It said he had tattoos that include a
medallion in the middle of his chest with a
scene of burning hills and the legend: "It
only takes a spark."
This FBI image shows several headshots of
alleged domestic terrorist Daniel Andreas
San Diego
A FBI most wanted terrorists poster shows
Daniel Andreas San Diego (Top R) along with
other wanted terrorists |
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