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[Servant Corps]

Posted in the previous project on Terrorism:

I'm going to bump this thread just to say that I'm going to eventually do a ameuterish project with this data. I am going to examine the composition of terrorist attacks on US soil before 9/11 and after 9/11, and try to study that. It could help me determine lots of stuff, like, say, the US have, in fact, became "safer".

My original idea was to just use the data to determine how many terrorist attacks occured in the same time period as my data, but I decided that problems of methodology would likely prevent me from getting sensible data.

It's done.


(second post-9/11 graph posted because the first one wasn't clear)

To ensure methodological comparsion, I was forced to start looking at terrorist attacks from 1998 to 9/10/2001, the day before 9/11/2001 then looked an equal amount of days up to May 22nd 2005. Inbetween the last project I did, the Global Terrorist Database updated itself with  new terrorist attacks, explaining why I had included new terrorist attacks that wasn't in the previous project. This means I need to update that old project with new data, but that will be for another time.

Spoiler: Data Set for 1998-9/10/2001 (click to show/hide)

Jan. 1st 1998 to Sept. 10th 2001 (1,348 days):
44 Terrorist attacks

Anti-Abortion Terrorism (7 Attacks):
*Birmingham, Alamaba. Robert  Sanderson, off-duty officer, "was killed by a bomb after he arrived to for work as a security guard at Birmingham  Abortion clinc." Nation's first fatiality in an abortion clinic bombing. Nurse also injured. Wikipedia blames the  Army of God for the attack.
*"An unidentified assailant threw a  Molotov Cocktail at the 1600 Thomas Avenue Building in Pacific Beach, California, U.S.A. The fire was quickly  extinguished, causing only minor damage. The attack was specifically aimed at the office of Planned Parenthood."
*A mentally unstable man broke a  window at the Fargo Women's Health Organization in Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.A., throwing a container of kerosene into  the clinic. The kerosene failed to ignite. The clinic had been the brunt of several vandalism attacks in the past.  Randal Hanson was found guilty of the crime, but his defense lawyer argued that he was mentally unstable.
*An anti-abortion activist set fire to  an area within a Sante Fe gallery in New Mexico, U.S.A.. This attack occurred just moments before a pro-choice abortion  activist was set to speak. The gallery suffered minor fire damage, but there were no casualties.
*Six sticks of dynamite, bundled with  black tape and a kitchen timer, were discovered at the Carolina Women's Clinic south of Fayetteville, North Carolina,  U.S.A. No injuries or damage resulted from this incident and there was no claim of responsibility. In addition, the  Hallmark Clinic was also attacked on the same day. Nobody was injured or died in both attacks.
*The Femcare Clinic in Asheville,  North Carolina, U.S.A., was the target of a suspected bomb attack. The bomb, which failed to fully explode, could have  caused significant damage. The abortion clinic was closed at the time of the attack. No one claimed responsibility for  this incident.
*A medical clinic in Tacoma,  Washington, U.S.A. where abortions are performed was bombed, causing damage but injuring no one. The doctor is Tacoma's  only private physician who openly performs abortions; he had been threatened in the past.


Animal Rights (8 Attacks):
*"Gallons of diesel fuel and unleaded  gas placed in buckets were used to set a fire at an administrative office of the U.S.A. Department of Agriculture's  Wildlife Services near the Evergreen State College, in the state of Washington. The division was recently known as the  Animal Damage Control, which was involved in getting rid of unwanted wildlife (Canadian geese in the Seattle area,  birds that are a hazard around Sea-Tac Airport and predators on ranches and farms like coyotes). Both the Animal  Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) have claimed responsibility for the attack."
*The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) set  fire to a van from Steve Corn Furs in Paramus, New Jersey, U.S.A.. No injuries were reported.
*"The Animal Liberation Front (ALF)  claimed responsibility for causing about $150,000 in damages to the offices of the Childers Meat Company, in Eugene,  Oregon, U.S.A. The perpetrators placed buckets of fuel all over the building and set the buckets ablaze. The fire  destroyed the two-story office building, a shipping dock and a refrigeration unit. ALF carried out the attack to  protest the meat and dairy industry's treatment of cows. In February of 2006, eleven people were indicted in a series  of arson attacks, including this one. Eight of the suspects were arrested and three remained at large."
*The Animal Liberation Front (ALF)  claimed responsibility for setting a fire that destroyed United Feeds, a Sheboygan County mink feed mill near Plymouth,  Wisconsin, U.S.A.. The perpetrators also released 2,000 mink at a nearby mink farm in a related attack.
*Eight animal activists, some dressed  in military fatigues and wearing black bandannas over their faces, confronted a man they believed was an animal  researcher and yelled, "Animals live and he's going to die." This attack occurred at the man's home in Northboro,  Massachusetts, U.S.A . Police said the suspects damaged the man's mailbox and threw a rock through the car window of  someone who was visiting him. No one was injured.
*Unknown suspects set three separate  fires on the grounds of the Rancho Veal Corporation in Petaluma, California, U.S.A.. Subsequent investigation  determined that an accelerant, believed to be diesel fuel, was used in the attack. The fires damaged office space, two  trucks, and an equipment storage facility, resulting in an estimated $150,000 in damages. On March 16, 2000, the North  American Animal Liberation Front Press Office released a communiqué stating that a cell of the Animal Liberation Front  (ALF), a terrorist animal rights movement, claimed responsibility for the fires. A similar act of attempted arson had  been claimed by ALF against the Rancho Veal Corporation in February 1997. The same ALF cell is suspected in a number of  other attacks on business in the Bay area.
*The Animal Liberation Front (ALF)  claimed responsibility for placing two Molotov Cocktails under a delivery truck that belonged to Shaller & Weber, a  meatpacking plant in Astoria, New York U.S.A. One of the devices fizzled while the other failed to ignite at all.  Damages caused only totaled about $135. The group claims that the attack was carried out in support of Long Island  animal and environmental activists. In a written statement, the group writes, "The ALF activists have taken this action  against the meat industry to continue their campaign of economic sabotage against all companies who profit from the  misery, torture and death inflicted upon animals in the name of profit."
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A McDonald's fast food restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. was torched by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a group  that has frequently targeted the corporation for killing "cows, chickens and pigs, whether directly or indirectly."  Damage has been estimated at $500,000, Note: ALF cites this incident as an anti-globalization action in their 2001  year-end Direct Action Report, available as of 13 January 2003 at  http://www.earthliberationfront.com/news/2002/020116ml.html.


Eco-Terrorism (14 attacks):
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for a series of fires that caused $12 million in damages to Vail Ski Resort outside of Vail,  Colorado, U.S.A. There were no casualties reported as a result of this attack.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for a Christmas Day fire that destroyed a Boise Cascade Timberlands Management Center in  Monmouth, Oregon, U.S.A. An ELF communiqué sent to The Associated Press said the fire was started with four buckets of  diesel fuel set alight by a kitchen timer delay. Property damage was $1 million. There were no injuries as a result of  the attack.
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The Earth Liberation Front claimed an arson attack at the agriculture building at Michigan State University located in  East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. ELF claimed it set the fire specifically to stop the work of those who study genetically  modified food.
*A previously unknown group called  "Revenge of the Trees" claimed credit for an arson at Holbrooke Inc. (A small timber company) in Olympia, Washington,  U.S.A. The arson caused approximately $150,000 in damages. The North American Earth Liberation Front Press office issue  a communiqué claiming responsibility three weeks after the arson. In the communiqué, Revenge of the Trees made  statements condemning capitalism and pledging their commitment to the destruction of the cabalist system.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for starting a fire at the Munroe County Republican Party Headquarters, in Bloomington, Indiana,  U.S.A. The fire caused minor damage to the exterior of the building. ELF released a statement that read, "I-69 is just  one example of the willingness of the rich to bleed the Earth and the working class to fulfill their money lust." The  group says it started the fire to make a statement against plans to extend Interstate 69.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for setting fire to a $2.5 million dollar home in Niwot, Colorado U.S.A. The home, which was  being built at the time of the blaze, was nearing completion. Authorities found the phrase, "Viva la revolution! The  Boulder ELF burned the Legend Ridge mansion on November 27th" written at the scene. In their claim of responsibility,  the group referred to an unsuccessful ballot issue that would have required some counties and cities to get voter  approval of growth rates, "we know that the corporate developers No on Amendment 24 campaign is guilty of a $6 million  election buyout."
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for planting a small incendiary device at homes in the Island Estates Development in Mount  Sinai, New York U.S.A. The blast caused a fire, which caused about $30,000 in damages to three different homes. The  Island Estates Development is being built on one of Long Island's last remaining peach farms. Authorities found  graffiti written at the scene that read, "if you build it, we will burn it." ELF stated, "this hopefully provided a  firm message that we will not tolerate the destruction of our island." In May 2004, Connor Cash, a member of ELF, was  arrested and charged with aiding in this attack. Cash denied all responsibility.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) set  a fire at the administrative offices of the Superior Lumber Company in Glendale, Oregon U.S.A. The fire caused $400,000  in damages to the company. There were no reported injuries or fatalities.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  attacked Melo’s Construction Corporation on Long Island, New York U.S.A. The group set equipment on fire causing $8,000  in damages. There were no injuries or fatalities.
* Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed  responsibility for setting fire to a cotton gin, owned by Delta & Pine Land Company, the largest seller and developer  of transgenic cotton in the U.S.A.. The attack took place in Visalia, California when unknown perpetrators cut through  a padlocked door, placed five gallon buckets of gasoline inside and set the cotton gin alight. ELF said that they  perpetrated the attack to rid the environment of genetically altered cotton. In a written statement, the group wrote,  "we choose this warehouse because it contained massive quantities of transgenic cotton seek in storage. But now, this  seed will no longer exist to contaminate the environment, enrich a sick corporation or contribute to its warped  research programs." Authorities are unsure if ELF is truly responsible or if they are just taking credit for the  incident.
*An anonymous group claimed  responsibility for setting fire to 36 SUVs in Eugene, Oregon U.S.A., causing about $1 million in damages. The  perpetrator set fire to several Suburban and Tahoe models at the Joe Romania Chevrolet, the same site that had been  attacked by arsonists in June 2000. It took fire officials over an hour to extinguish the flames, which melted  upholstery, electrical wiring and engine parts. Authorities may have found evidence of an incendiary device, but no  further information is provided. The claim of responsibility stated that the group carried out the attack in protest of  pollution from SUVs and to show solidarity with two men charged with the firebombing of the same dealership in June  2000.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for setting fire to three cement trucks that belonged to the Ross Island Sand & Gravel Company,  in Portland, Oregon U.S.A. The attack was perpetrated, according to the group, to protest the company's mining of a 40 -acre site in the Columbia River Gorge. The fire was started when four containers of gasoline were lit with a timing  device. The damages totaled over $210,000. In their written communiqué, the group states, "Let this be a warning to all  the greedy corporations who exploit our Earth's natural resources." In October of 2002, two men, Jacob Sherman and  Michael Scarpitti, were arrested in connection with this arson attack and another that took place in June 2001, which  targeted a logging company is Estacada.
*ELF set fire to the Jefferson Poplar  Farms in Clatskanie, Washington and the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle, Washington U.S.A at the  same time.
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Two or three logging trucks, that belonged to the Ray Schoppert Logging Company, were set on fire by environmentalists  in Estacada, Oregon U.S.A. The fires were started when milk jugs filled with gasoline were set alight. The attack came  the night before the company was to begin cutting trees from the Eagle Creek logging site. An alert Schoppert company  employee noticed the fire. In August 2002, four men were indicted in connection with this attack. Authorities believe  that this attack was linked with a similar incident in April 2001 that took place at Ross Island Sand & Gravel in  Portland, Oregon. They also believe that the perpetrators may have links to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and/or the  Animal Liberation Front (ALF).
*At approximately 3:15 a.m. local  time, seven firebombs were detonated at a newly constructed apartment complex in Sutter Creek, California, United  States. Six of the firebombs were extinguished by the sprinkler system, but the seventh firebomb exploded and caused  approximately $50,000 worth of damage to the complex, although no casualties resulted from this attack. The group Earth  Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility for this attack and subsequently three individuals were arrested and  charged.


Race Relations (including anti-Semitic attacks) (5 Attacks):
*Arsonists attacked three Jewish  synagogues in Sacramento, California. "Propaganda fliers left at the scene of the [B'nai Israel synagogue ] blast  blamed the "North Atlantic Terrorist Organization" and "Jewsmedia" for the war in Kosovo.
*Mathew Williams and Tyler Williams  broke into the home of Gary Matson and Winfield Scott Mowder, an openly gay couple in Redding, California, United  States. The Williams brothers shot and killed Matson and Mowder and stole Matson's credit card and car. Mathew and  Tyler Williams were both affiliated with the Christian Identity movement and shared views that Blacks, Homosexuals, and  Jews were subhuman and needed to be eliminated for the survival of the White race.
*Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, "an avowed  white supremacists and member of the Christian Identity church, World Church of the Creator, injured a total of nine  people and killed two in his three day shooting spree. As the police closed in on Smith, he committed suicide."  Ben killed a Korean-American doctoral student, and an African American man.
*A gunman armed with a submachine gun  opened fire in the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, California, U.S.A., injuring  five people. Buford O'Neal Furrow Jr. surrendered to authorities in Las Vegas, Nevada and reportedly told police  authorities that he intended the attack as "a wake-up call to America to kill Jews."
*Shortly before 1:00 pm local time, a  bomb exploded in the first floor men's room of Lee Hall at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical (A & M) University in  Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A.. The explosion was very minor an caused little damage, but authorities suspected that the  device malfunctioned and was potentially capable of causing significant damage. An unidentified caller phoned a news  station with a racially charged tirade and claimed responsibility for the attack. A month later, another bomb  "exploded on the second floor of  Perry-Paige Hall at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical (A & M) University", followed by a racial tirade.

Anti-Globalization Terrorism (1 Attack):
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for attempting to set a Nike shoe outlet on fire in Albertville, Minnesota, U.S.A. Authorities  discovered several milk jugs filled with gasoline on the roof of the building and evacuated the premises. The fire had  failed to ignite and no damages or injuries were caused. ELF stated that it targeted the Nike store because of  "treacherous conditions" at Nike plants around the world and because of the company's role in globalization of trade. 

Anti-Enviromentalist Terrorism (2 Attacks):
*"Raymond Kodiak Sandoval, a former  member of the Minutemen Militia, set two fires in the Jemez Mountains in New Mexico, United States that merged into a  single fire. The blaze, later monikered the Oso Complex Fire, lasted one week and required over eight-hundred firemen  to be extinguished. The fire burned over five thousand acres of land and caused around $3,500,000 in damages. ...  Sandoval claimed that he did it to protest the policies of environmentalists who attempted to pass legislation which  would kick poor Hispanics off of their land in northern New Mexico."
*[url=http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=199903200009]A pipe bomb was left in the mailbox  of the Forest Guardians, an environmentalist group, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.. The pipe bomb was 10 inches long,  had a cigarette fuse and was disarmed by the bomb squad. The Forest Guardians had been threatened previously for their  pro-environment agenda. The perpetrators were unknown.


Anti-Government Terrorism (4 Attacks):
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"A stolen pickup truck carrying a homemade bomb crashed through the doors of the county courthouse in Lafayette,  Indiana, U.S.A., and ignited an accelerant on board, causing a fire that heavily damaged the building. However, the  bomb did not explode and no one was injured."
*Unknown perpetrators set fire to the  Internal Revenue Service Building in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. The buildings sustained heavy damages  and one firefighter was injured fighting the blaze.
*Three employees at an Internal  Revenue Service processing center in Ogden, Utah, U.S.A. were injured when they handled letters contaminated with an  unknown chemical agent.
*A letter mailed to the IRS office in  Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A. contained an unknown chemical agent that injured 3 people. Possiby related to the  attack on the IRS processing center in Ogden, Utah, but the Global Terrorist Database didn't mention the possiblity, so  I'm counting it as a seperate attack.

Anti-Kosovo War Terrorism, not Anti-Semitic (1 Attack):
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A former National Guard pilot, Milan S. Mititch, broke into the 128th Air Refueling Wing air base at Mitchell  International Airport, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. to place a bomb as well as scrawled graffiti calling for an end to  intervention in Kosovo. The bomb failed to explode and the Mititch was later arrested for the incident. . The  actual graffiti was "Free Kosova".


Other (2 Attacks):
*"Kathryn Schoonover sent envelopes  filled with cyanide to several police officers, city officials, and mental health workers in Marina Del Rey,  California, U.S.A. No injuries were reported in the incident."
*Frank Darwin Alexander sent a  mail bomb to Bill Clinton, John Hagee (a preacher with Conerstone Ministers, in San Antonio), and the Bureau of  Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms office in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Not Counted:
*"An individual, Russell Watson, was  suspected of attacking the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C., U.S.A., killing two policemen and injuring  one." Not counted  as terrorism because he was found incompentent by court to stand trial, and I believe that the terrorist must be  sane at the time of committing terrorism. Russell Watson wanted to stop an imaginary disease called the Black Heva.
*Incidents involving buytic acid are not counted in this list of terrorist attacks, as buytic acid is considered  basically a stink bomb. I feel that stink bombs really do not qualify as terrorism, even though people has been injured  in these attacks. Most of the buytic acid attacks was done by  anti-abortion activists.  One buytic acid attack was done by  eco-terrorists, and another one  was done to protest the opening of a Borders bookstore.
*I consider the Columbine Shootings to be an example of mass murder, with no political rational behind it. So it is not counted as terrorism.
*A pipe bomb was found in a bathroom  at the Blanco High School in Blanco, Texas, U.S.A. Four students, including one girl, were arrested. I consider  it to be an example of mass murder.
*The Coalition to Save the Preserves  (CSP) claimed responsibility for burning a 5,000 square-foot luxury home in Scottsdale, Arizona U.S.A. The attack is  believed to have been dedicated to the late Geoffrey Platts, a Scottsdale author and environmentalist. The CSP is  opposed to homes being built in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale. In November 2001, Mark Warren Sands, a  confessed eco-terrorist, pled guilty to torching a string of luxury homes near mountain preserves in an attempt to save  the desert. It is believed that this attack is among those to which he is charged. Sands later alledgedly admitted  to a friend that he was motivated not by concerns about the environment, but rather by his own dark inner demons. Attack is not classified as terrorism due to the political rationale actually being a cover.
*Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States-Canada  border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of  the 2000 millennium attack plots. However, the attack was not carried out; I'm more interested in actual  terrorist attacks as opposed to failed terrorist plots.
*"Ali Abu Kamal opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, killing  a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the  gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of  Palestine". His widow claimed he became suicidal after losing $300,000 in a business venture. In a 2007 interview with  the New York Daily News his daughter said her mother's story was a cover crafted by the Palestinian Authority and that  her father wanted to punish the United States for its support of Israel." (Source is  Wikipedia.) The reason this is not counted  was because the terrorist attack occured on Feb. 24th 1997, and the GTD's metholody has changed in 1998, preventing me  from using this terrorist attack. As this was a Muslim terrorist attack, I felt it was important to point it out.

[Servant Corps]

Spoiler: Data Set for 9/12/2001 to 5/22/2005 (click to show/hide)

From date: Wednesday, September 12, 2001
Added 1348 days
Resulting date: Sunday, May 22, 2005

http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx? expanded=no&casualties_type=b&casualties_max=&start_year=2001&start_month=9&start_day=12&end_year=2005&end_month=5&end_ day=22&dtp2=all&success=yes&country=217&ob=GTDID&od=desc&page=1&count=100

40 Attacks

Animal Rights (7 Attacks):
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An incendiary device exploded at a maintenance building at the White Sands Research Center in New Mexico, U.S.A., a  research laboratory that uses chimpanzees in medical studies. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) claimed responsibility  for this explosion that caused more than $1 million in damages.
*A truck parked at the Sims Poultry  Inc., a poultry plant outside of Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. was set on fire. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) later  claimed responsibility for the incident via their spokesman David Barabash. Barabash claimed the reason for the attack  was the profit and harm Sims Poultry had committed against animals. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms confirmed  the firm had been the target of animal activists in the past.
*High-rises in Seattle, Washington,  U.S.A. were evacuated after two smoke bombs went off. No one was injured and no one claimed responsibility, but the  bombings had the signatures of an animal rights attack.
*Animal Liberation Front (ALF) members  set fire to a store that sold tiger and leopard meat in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. No casualties were reported in the  attack.
*Two small explosive devices detonated  at the third-largest biotechnology firm in the nation, Chiron, in Emeryville, California, U.S.A. The blasts blew the  windows out of the building but caused no injuries. The second device was primed to detonate after the first, possibly  in order to injure emergency responders. The attack was claimed by a group called the Animal Liberation Front -  Revolutionary Cells.
*A group called the "Revolutionary  Cells Animal Liberation Brigade" claimed responsibility for two explosive devices that detonated at the headquarters of  the Shaklee Corporation, which manufactures health foods, vitamins and cosmetics. The device, which was made of  explosives attached to a small kitchen timer and was packed with nails, detonated at the premises in Pleasanton,  California, U.S.A. The bomb damaged glass, molding and stucco on the building but caused no injuries or major  structural damage. The group states that they attacked this company because of their connections to Huntingdon Life  Sciences (HLS), which tests products on animals. In their written statement, the group writes, "we gave all of the  customers the chance, the choice, to withdraw their business from HLS. Now you all will have to reap what you have  sown. All customers and their families are considered legitimate targets."
*12 luxury homes, which were under  construction on a 10-acre area in Maryland, just outside of Washington D.C., U.S.A., and very near the Mattawoman  National Wildlife Area, were burned to the ground by suspected unnamed environmentalists. 29 other houses were also  damaged by the fire, which caused a total damage estimated at over $10 million dollars. No group claimed responsibility  for the attack. This development was regularly criticized by environmentalists for its proximity to the nature  preserve.

Eco-Terrorism (18 Attacks):
*ELF committed arson at Wild Horse and  Burro Corral in Litchfield, California, U.S.A and freed over 100 horses.
*A trailer and two pieces of heavy  machinery were burned at the construction site of the Microbial and Plant Genomics Research Center on the University of  Minnesota, St. Paul campus. The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed the attack, stating that the target was attacked  for its research on genetically modified crops.
*Failed  attempt to blow up a  construction crane using an American flag. Terrorists caught, and  claimed to be members of ELF.
*Bombs, consisting of three, five  gallon buckets filled with an unknown liquid, wired to two ignition devices, were found and defused near the U.J.  Noblet Forestry Building and the US Forest Service Engineering Laboratory at Michigan Tech University. Both labs  conduct genetic engineering research for the forest products industry. No group has claimed responsibility for this  attack, though the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) has claimed responsibility for several recent attacks on genetic  engineering and other projects.
*Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed  responsibility for an arson at the Mindek Brothers Fur Farm in Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.. The flames destroyed a barn  at the farm but caused no injuries. In their claim of responsibility, the groups stated that this farm was responsible  for the deaths of "thousands of innocent creatures yearly.
*Jugs of gasoline, which were set  under three vehicles at Bob Ferrando Ford Lincoln Mercury in Girard, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. were set ablaze. Two pickup  trucks, one sport utility vehicle (SUV) and a car were destroyed. The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed  responsibility for the attack, claiming that it targeted SUVs in a fight "to remove the profit motive from the killing  of the natural environment."
*Two  attacks on McDonald restraunts  in Chico, California. Both were in March 2003. Done by ALF.  Both attacks used incendiary bombs.
*Firebombing of McDonalds restraunt in  Albuqerque, New Mexico on March 11, 2003. Done by  ALF.
*That same day, another McDonald's  restraunt and  an Arbys in  Albuqerque, New Mexico were firebombed.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for setting fire to two homes in Washtenaw County, Michigan, U.S.A.. An anti-sprawl message and  the initials ELF were spray painted at the scene of the fire. ELF claimed responsibility for the incident on their  website and stated that luxury projects are "accelerating the destruction of forested areas, wetlands and other areas  of environmental concern across North America."
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  indicated it was responsible for setting fire to two nearly completed luxury homes in Macomb County, Michigan, U.S.A.  The fire destroyed the two homes and authorities found the letters "ELF" and an anti-sprawl message spray painted at  the scene.
*Suspected members of the Earth  Liberation Front (ELF) burned down a new apartment complex that was under construction in La Jolla, California, U.S.A.  The early morning fire caused more than $20 million in damage to the unfinished, wood-framed building in the upscale  University Town Centre residential neighborhood. No injuries were reported. The Earth Liberation Front claimed  responsibility for the arson attack.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) was  responsible for starting fires at the Clippinger Chevrolet dealership in West Covina, California, U.S.A. which caused  over $1 million in damage. The vehicles damaged, mostly Hummers, were parked at the dealership. Authorities found  slogans spray painted on other vehicles at the site of the attack reading, "Fat, Lazy Americans" and "ELF" among  others. Police arrested and then later released Joshua Thomas Connole who they suspected was involved with the attack  but could not come up with enough evidence to support their belief. On 19 November 2004, Billy Cottrell, a suspected  member of ELF and co-conspirer or this attack was charged with federal arson charges and faced up to thirty years in  prison, the most allowed for this crime.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for planting plastic bottles containing flammable liquid at the Ice Mountain Spring Water  Company in Martiny, Michigan, U.S.A. The devices were intended to start a fire at the premises but were discovered by  maintenance workers before they were set ablaze. In a written statement, ELF stated, "we will no longer stand idly be  while corporations profit at the expense of all others. To this end, we have taken action against one of the pumping  stations that Perrier uses to steal water."
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is  responsible for setting fire to a group of luxury homes that were under construction in Carmel Valley, in San Diego,  California, U.S.A. Four of the homes were destroyed and two others were seriously damaged. Authorities found banners  hung at the scene that read, "Development angry" and "The elfs are mad."
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is  suspected of setting fire to three luxury homes in Snohomish, Washington, U.S.A., that caused about $1 million in  damages. The perpetrators targeted new homes located in a golf course subdivision. A spokesman for ELF reportedly said  that they believe that one of their members perpetrated the attack but were not completely certain.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for starting a fire that caused about $1.5 million in damages to a lumber warehouse in West  Jordan, Utah, U.S.A. In a fax claim of responsibility, someone representing the group stated that the lumberyard was  attacked because of excessive pollutants released by Stock Building Supply's (owner of the lumberyard) forklifts. In  October of 2004, Justus Ireland admitted to setting fire to a delivery truck and a pallet full of wood at the lumber  yard.
*At approximately 3:15 a.m. local  time, seven firebombs were detonated at a newly constructed apartment complex in Sutter Creek, California, United  States. Six of the firebombs were extinguished by the sprinkler system, but the seventh firebomb exploded and caused  approximately $50,000 worth of damage to the complex, although no casualties resulted from this attack. The group Earth  Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility for this attack and subsequently three individuals were arrested and  charged.

Anthrax Scare of 2001 (1 Attack):

*US investigation concluded that this was a false-flag operation conducted by a lone scientist with access to anthrax  vials, in order to gain support for an anthrax vaccation program. 15 injured, 5 dead.

Luke Helder (1 Attack):
*Luke Helder, the Midwest Pipe Bomber, injured seven people through pipe bombs...in order to gain  attention to some  strange ideas, including promoting astral projection and protesting both  government control over daily life and the  prohibition of marijuna.

Islamist Terrorism (4 Attacks):
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Hesham  Mohamad Hadyet opened fire at El Al Israeli Airlines Ticket Counter, Killing Two People,  Injuring 4.
*Eid Elwirelwir, a U.S. citizen born  in Venezuela, crashed his vehicle into the razor-wire barricade gate of the March Air Force Reserve Base in Riverside  County, California, United States, causing $1,000 in damage to the government property. No casualties resulted from  this incident. Elwirelwir claimed he was oppressed by America for being Muslim, and additionally that he supported  "Saddam Hussein's right to use weapons of mass destruction if invaded." He was arrested and charged with damaging  government property.
*The 2001 Shoe Bomb plot by Richard Colvin Reid
*Beltway Sniper Attacks

Chrisitan Terrorism, Non-Abortion Related (1 Attack):
*Dr. O' Brian C.  Smith was attacked by a religious extermist in Mephis,  TN, first by planting explosives, and then confronting him  directly. The extermist attacked  Smtih due to him testifying in a death penalty case against Philip Workman, who was  accused  of murdering a cop. The extermist is also anti-abortion, but it seemed the death penalty  case was the primary  motiviator. Only Dr. O' Brian C. Smith was injured.

Cuban Terrorism (1 Attack):
*The Headquaters of the Cuban-American  National Foundation and the  headquaters of Alpha 66, a Cuban terrorist group was attacked by molotov cocktails. Both  organizations blame  Cuban spies.

Anti-NK Terrorism (1 Attack):
*
Steve Kim fired seven shots at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York, United States. Four bullets hit  the building between the eighteenth and twentieth floors. There were no casualties but windows were shattered.  Immediately, after the shooting, Kim released a flier portraying the horrors of life in North Korea and called for the  United Nations to end the Kim Jong-Il regime.

Anti-Iraq War Terrorism, Non-Muslim (1 Attack):
*ELF set  fire to one truck and  vandalized five government vehicles at a Naval Recruitment HQ in  Montgomery, Alabama. Anti-Iraq War slogans were  spraypainted in the area. ELF claimed  responsiblity.

Anti-Government Terrorism (2 Attacks) [combining two terrorist attacks together]
--Anti-Tobbaco Policies Protests (1 Attack):
*A truck parked at the Sims Poultry  Inc., a poultry plant outside of Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. was set on fire. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) later  claimed responsibility for the incident via their spokesman David Barabash. Barabash claimed the reason for the attack  was the profit and harm Sims Poultry had committed against animals. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms confirmed  the firm had been the target of animal activists in the past.
--Ricin Attacks, Trucking Regulations (1 Attack):
[spoiler]A mysterious person called "Fallen Angel" have sent letters of Ricin in an attempt to change  federal trucking  regulations. According to this CNN  article,  this was his demand:

The typewritten letter was addressed to the Department of Transportation and demanded  that changes in truckers'  sleep/work schedules not be implemented.

"I have easy access to castor pulp," the author of the letter wrote, referring to the waste  of castor bean processing  which can be used to make ricin.

"If my demand is dismissed I'm capable of making ricin," the letter continued. "My demand is  simple, January 4, 2004  starts the new hours of service for trucks which include a  ridiculous ten hours in the sleeper berth. Keep it at eight  or I will start dumping."

Those federal regulations did go into effect Sunday, allowing long haul drivers to be on the  road for 11 hours after  10 hours off-duty.

The author, who claimed to be a fleet owner of a tanker company, signed the letter, "Fallen  Angel."
1st Letter: To Department of  Transportation, intercepted at Greenville, SC.
2nd Letter: To White House.   Intercepted at sorting house. Not disclosed because  the government believed ricin posed "no public health risk".
3rd Letter:A Ricin  Letter was  delivered to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. At first,  there appear to be no link to  the first Ricin case  mentioned above...but it seemed that there was a link being  discovered.

Apperantly, the US government is stumpted over who is responsible for the ricin  letters...but appear to have concluded  that the Ricin Attacks was a hoax, conducted by a  prison inmate. So, it might be an iffy case.[/quote]

Race Relations (including anti-semitic attacks) (2 Attacks):
*Unknown perpetrators set fire to  CANDLES, a Holocaust memorial museum in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. There were no casualties but the entire  building was gutted by the blaze. On the side of the building "remember Timmy McVeigh" was written on the wall. Timothy  McVeigh was executed in a federal prison near Terre Haute in 2001. (Building rebuilt in less than 2 years.)
*Attempting to initiate a race war,  Sean Gillespie hurled a Molotov cocktail at Temple B'nai Israel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. There were  no casualties but the building sustained minor damages.

Other Attacks, Unknown Motives (2 Attacks):
*At approximately 1:15 a.m. local  time, an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated on the grounds of an elementary school in New Bedford,  Massachusetts, United States. No casualties and only minor property damage resulted from this incident. No group  claimed responsibility for this attack, although two men were seen fleeing the scene moments before the explosion. 
*
Unidentified perpetrators threw two small, homemade grenades at a building housing the British Consulate in New York  City, New York, United States. No one was harmed in the attack, but the building sustained some minor damage. No group  claimed responsibility for the attack.

Not Counted:
*"A small pipe bomb put in a foam box  was found in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. mailbox. Police safely detonated the device, which was packed with  nails, and no one was hurt. The bomb had a note that stated “Free Palestine” and also reportedly made some reference to  Al-Qa`ida. A 53 year old Philadelphia man, Preston Lit, who had no connections with Al-Qa`ida or any other terrorist  group, was charged with threatening to use explosives. He had a criminal past and reportedly suffered from bi-polar  disorder and other mental sicknesses." Due to not being sane, this is not classified as terrorism.
*Two  Volunteer Firemen conducted  arson in East Norwich, New York (as well as Oyster Bay, New  York). They were responsible for 3 'terrorist' attacks in  the area. This could be a purely  criminal act, as opposed to protesting any sort of development in the area, hence why  I view  this as...not really a terrorist attack.
*In related incidents, trace amounts  of anthrax were discovered at a mail facility at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, United States. No casualties or  property damage resulted from this incident, although 100 individuals, mainly government contractors, were given  antibiotics as a precautionary measure after biological hazard sensors were set off at approximately 10:30 a.m. local  time. No group claimed responsibility for this incident. Not counted because it was eventually declared a false  alarm.

[Grakelin]

I notice that "Daughter Kidnap Plot" didn't even appear on the list.

I call bullshit.

[nuker w]

I notice that "Daughter Kidnap Plot" didn't even appear on the list.

I call bullshit.

So after this person does all this fine work... You call bullshit because one thing you heard of didn't make it?
 

Back on the rails, nice stuff. It has no effect on me, due to where i'm from but its sure interesting to look at. Good work.

[Servant Corps]

I notice that "Daughter Kidnap Plot" didn't even appear on the list.

A quick search on Google revealed that this 'plot' happened this year (2010), and thus would be excluded from both projects I did. In any event, I don't care about "plots", but actual "attacks".

[nuker w]

Any study that conflates relatively minor acts of vandalism and threats with bombs and anthrax isn't a study at all.

Can't people look at the good points of this? Plus, both of the above could be used to strike fear into people i.e terrorism.

[Grakelin]

I notice that "Daughter Kidnap Plot" didn't even appear on the list.

I call bullshit.

So after this person does all this fine work... You call bullshit because one thing you heard of didn't make it?
 

Back on the rails, nice stuff. It has no effect on me, due to where i'm from but its sure interesting to look at. Good work.

I notice that "Daughter Kidnap Plot" didn't even appear on the list.

A quick search on Google revealed that this 'plot' happened this year (2010), and thus would be excluded from both projects I did. In any event, I don't care about "plots", but actual "attacks".

you guys totally did that on purpose, right

[Servant Corps]

Can't people look at the good points of this?

Well, I welcome the criticism. All criticism is valid, since it will more than likely lead to more knowledge and better "experiments" in the future.

[Duuvian]

First post spoiler/quote:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Posted in the previous project on Terrorism:

I'm going to bump this thread just to say that I'm going to eventually do a ameuterish project with this data. I am going to examine the composition of terrorist attacks on US soil before 9/11 and after 9/11, and try to study that. It could help me determine lots of stuff, like, say, the US have, in fact, became "safer".

My original idea was to just use the data to determine how many terrorist attacks occured in the same time period as my data, but I decided that problems of methodology would likely prevent me from getting sensible data.

It's done.


To ensure methodological comparsion, I was forced to start looking at terrorist attacks from 1998 to 9/10/2001, the day before 9/11/2001 then looked an equal amount of days up to May 22nd 2005. Inbetween the last project I did, the Global Terrorist Database updated itself with  new terrorist attacks, explaining why I had included new terrorist attacks that wasn't in the previous project. This means I need to update that old project with new data, but that will be for another time.

[spoiler=Data Set for 1998-9/10/2001]
Jan. 1st 1998 to Sept. 10th 2001 (1,348 days):
44 Terrorist attacks

Anti-Abortion Terrorism (7 Attacks):
*Birmingham, Alamaba. Robert  Sanderson, off-duty officer, "was killed by a bomb after he arrived to for work as a security guard at Birmingham  Abortion clinc." Nation's first fatiality in an abortion clinic bombing. Nurse also injured. Wikipedia blames the  Army of God for the attack.
*"An unidentified assailant threw a  Molotov Cocktail at the 1600 Thomas Avenue Building in Pacific Beach, California, U.S.A. The fire was quickly  extinguished, causing only minor damage. The attack was specifically aimed at the office of Planned Parenthood."
*A mentally unstable man broke a  window at the Fargo Women's Health Organization in Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.A., throwing a container of kerosene into  the clinic. The kerosene failed to ignite. The clinic had been the brunt of several vandalism attacks in the past.  Randal Hanson was found guilty of the crime, but his defense lawyer argued that he was mentally unstable.
*An anti-abortion activist set fire to  an area within a Sante Fe gallery in New Mexico, U.S.A.. This attack occurred just moments before a pro-choice abortion  activist was set to speak. The gallery suffered minor fire damage, but there were no casualties.
*Six sticks of dynamite, bundled with  black tape and a kitchen timer, were discovered at the Carolina Women's Clinic south of Fayetteville, North Carolina,  U.S.A. No injuries or damage resulted from this incident and there was no claim of responsibility. In addition, the  Hallmark Clinic was also attacked on the same day. Nobody was injured or died in both attacks.
*The Femcare Clinic in Asheville,  North Carolina, U.S.A., was the target of a suspected bomb attack. The bomb, which failed to fully explode, could have  caused significant damage. The abortion clinic was closed at the time of the attack. No one claimed responsibility for  this incident.
*A medical clinic in Tacoma,  Washington, U.S.A. where abortions are performed was bombed, causing damage but injuring no one. The doctor is Tacoma's  only private physician who openly performs abortions; he had been threatened in the past.


Animal Rights (8 Attacks):
*"Gallons of diesel fuel and unleaded  gas placed in buckets were used to set a fire at an administrative office of the U.S.A. Department of Agriculture's  Wildlife Services near the Evergreen State College, in the state of Washington. The division was recently known as the  Animal Damage Control, which was involved in getting rid of unwanted wildlife (Canadian geese in the Seattle area,  birds that are a hazard around Sea-Tac Airport and predators on ranches and farms like coyotes). Both the Animal  Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) have claimed responsibility for the attack."
*The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) set  fire to a van from Steve Corn Furs in Paramus, New Jersey, U.S.A.. No injuries were reported.
*"The Animal Liberation Front (ALF)  claimed responsibility for causing about $150,000 in damages to the offices of the Childers Meat Company, in Eugene,  Oregon, U.S.A. The perpetrators placed buckets of fuel all over the building and set the buckets ablaze. The fire  destroyed the two-story office building, a shipping dock and a refrigeration unit. ALF carried out the attack to  protest the meat and dairy industry's treatment of cows. In February of 2006, eleven people were indicted in a series  of arson attacks, including this one. Eight of the suspects were arrested and three remained at large."
*The Animal Liberation Front (ALF)  claimed responsibility for setting a fire that destroyed United Feeds, a Sheboygan County mink feed mill near Plymouth,  Wisconsin, U.S.A.. The perpetrators also released 2,000 mink at a nearby mink farm in a related attack.
*Eight animal activists, some dressed  in military fatigues and wearing black bandannas over their faces, confronted a man they believed was an animal  researcher and yelled, "Animals live and he's going to die." This attack occurred at the man's home in Northboro,  Massachusetts, U.S.A . Police said the suspects damaged the man's mailbox and threw a rock through the car window of  someone who was visiting him. No one was injured.
*Unknown suspects set three separate  fires on the grounds of the Rancho Veal Corporation in Petaluma, California, U.S.A.. Subsequent investigation  determined that an accelerant, believed to be diesel fuel, was used in the attack. The fires damaged office space, two  trucks, and an equipment storage facility, resulting in an estimated $150,000 in damages. On March 16, 2000, the North  American Animal Liberation Front Press Office released a communiqué stating that a cell of the Animal Liberation Front  (ALF), a terrorist animal rights movement, claimed responsibility for the fires. A similar act of attempted arson had  been claimed by ALF against the Rancho Veal Corporation in February 1997. The same ALF cell is suspected in a number of  other attacks on business in the Bay area.
*The Animal Liberation Front (ALF)  claimed responsibility for placing two Molotov Cocktails under a delivery truck that belonged to Shaller & Weber, a  meatpacking plant in Astoria, New York U.S.A. One of the devices fizzled while the other failed to ignite at all.  Damages caused only totaled about $135. The group claims that the attack was carried out in support of Long Island  animal and environmental activists. In a written statement, the group writes, "The ALF activists have taken this action  against the meat industry to continue their campaign of economic sabotage against all companies who profit from the  misery, torture and death inflicted upon animals in the name of profit."
*
A McDonald's fast food restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. was torched by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a group  that has frequently targeted the corporation for killing "cows, chickens and pigs, whether directly or indirectly."  Damage has been estimated at $500,000, Note: ALF cites this incident as an anti-globalization action in their 2001  year-end Direct Action Report, available as of 13 January 2003 at  http://www.earthliberationfront.com/news/2002/020116ml.html.


Eco-Terrorism (14 attacks):
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for a series of fires that caused $12 million in damages to Vail Ski Resort outside of Vail,  Colorado, U.S.A. There were no casualties reported as a result of this attack.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for a Christmas Day fire that destroyed a Boise Cascade Timberlands Management Center in  Monmouth, Oregon, U.S.A. An ELF communiqué sent to The Associated Press said the fire was started with four buckets of  diesel fuel set alight by a kitchen timer delay. Property damage was $1 million. There were no injuries as a result of  the attack.
*
The Earth Liberation Front claimed an arson attack at the agriculture building at Michigan State University located in  East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. ELF claimed it set the fire specifically to stop the work of those who study genetically  modified food.
*A previously unknown group called  "Revenge of the Trees" claimed credit for an arson at Holbrooke Inc. (A small timber company) in Olympia, Washington,  U.S.A. The arson caused approximately $150,000 in damages. The North American Earth Liberation Front Press office issue  a communiqué claiming responsibility three weeks after the arson. In the communiqué, Revenge of the Trees made  statements condemning capitalism and pledging their commitment to the destruction of the cabalist system.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for starting a fire at the Munroe County Republican Party Headquarters, in Bloomington, Indiana,  U.S.A. The fire caused minor damage to the exterior of the building. ELF released a statement that read, "I-69 is just  one example of the willingness of the rich to bleed the Earth and the working class to fulfill their money lust." The  group says it started the fire to make a statement against plans to extend Interstate 69.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for setting fire to a $2.5 million dollar home in Niwot, Colorado U.S.A. The home, which was  being built at the time of the blaze, was nearing completion. Authorities found the phrase, "Viva la revolution! The  Boulder ELF burned the Legend Ridge mansion on November 27th" written at the scene. In their claim of responsibility,  the group referred to an unsuccessful ballot issue that would have required some counties and cities to get voter  approval of growth rates, "we know that the corporate developers No on Amendment 24 campaign is guilty of a $6 million  election buyout."
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for planting a small incendiary device at homes in the Island Estates Development in Mount  Sinai, New York U.S.A. The blast caused a fire, which caused about $30,000 in damages to three different homes. The  Island Estates Development is being built on one of Long Island's last remaining peach farms. Authorities found  graffiti written at the scene that read, "if you build it, we will burn it." ELF stated, "this hopefully provided a  firm message that we will not tolerate the destruction of our island." In May 2004, Connor Cash, a member of ELF, was  arrested and charged with aiding in this attack. Cash denied all responsibility.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) set  a fire at the administrative offices of the Superior Lumber Company in Glendale, Oregon U.S.A. The fire caused $400,000  in damages to the company. There were no reported injuries or fatalities.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  attacked Melo’s Construction Corporation on Long Island, New York U.S.A. The group set equipment on fire causing $8,000  in damages. There were no injuries or fatalities.
* Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed  responsibility for setting fire to a cotton gin, owned by Delta & Pine Land Company, the largest seller and developer  of transgenic cotton in the U.S.A.. The attack took place in Visalia, California when unknown perpetrators cut through  a padlocked door, placed five gallon buckets of gasoline inside and set the cotton gin alight. ELF said that they  perpetrated the attack to rid the environment of genetically altered cotton. In a written statement, the group wrote,  "we choose this warehouse because it contained massive quantities of transgenic cotton seek in storage. But now, this  seed will no longer exist to contaminate the environment, enrich a sick corporation or contribute to its warped  research programs." Authorities are unsure if ELF is truly responsible or if they are just taking credit for the  incident.
*An anonymous group claimed  responsibility for setting fire to 36 SUVs in Eugene, Oregon U.S.A., causing about $1 million in damages. The  perpetrator set fire to several Suburban and Tahoe models at the Joe Romania Chevrolet, the same site that had been  attacked by arsonists in June 2000. It took fire officials over an hour to extinguish the flames, which melted  upholstery, electrical wiring and engine parts. Authorities may have found evidence of an incendiary device, but no  further information is provided. The claim of responsibility stated that the group carried out the attack in protest of  pollution from SUVs and to show solidarity with two men charged with the firebombing of the same dealership in June  2000.
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for setting fire to three cement trucks that belonged to the Ross Island Sand & Gravel Company,  in Portland, Oregon U.S.A. The attack was perpetrated, according to the group, to protest the company's mining of a 40 -acre site in the Columbia River Gorge. The fire was started when four containers of gasoline were lit with a timing  device. The damages totaled over $210,000. In their written communiqué, the group states, "Let this be a warning to all  the greedy corporations who exploit our Earth's natural resources." In October of 2002, two men, Jacob Sherman and  Michael Scarpitti, were arrested in connection with this arson attack and another that took place in June 2001, which  targeted a logging company is Estacada.
*ELF set fire to the Jefferson Poplar  Farms in Clatskanie, Washington and the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle, Washington U.S.A at the  same time.
*
Two or three logging trucks, that belonged to the Ray Schoppert Logging Company, were set on fire by environmentalists  in Estacada, Oregon U.S.A. The fires were started when milk jugs filled with gasoline were set alight. The attack came  the night before the company was to begin cutting trees from the Eagle Creek logging site. An alert Schoppert company  employee noticed the fire. In August 2002, four men were indicted in connection with this attack. Authorities believe  that this attack was linked with a similar incident in April 2001 that took place at Ross Island Sand & Gravel in  Portland, Oregon. They also believe that the perpetrators may have links to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and/or the  Animal Liberation Front (ALF).
*At approximately 3:15 a.m. local  time, seven firebombs were detonated at a newly constructed apartment complex in Sutter Creek, California, United  States. Six of the firebombs were extinguished by the sprinkler system, but the seventh firebomb exploded and caused  approximately $50,000 worth of damage to the complex, although no casualties resulted from this attack. The group Earth  Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility for this attack and subsequently three individuals were arrested and  charged.


Race Relations (including anti-Semitic attacks) (5 Attacks):
*Arsonists attacked three Jewish  synagogues in Sacramento, California. "Propaganda fliers left at the scene of the [B'nai Israel synagogue ] blast  blamed the "North Atlantic Terrorist Organization" and "Jewsmedia" for the war in Kosovo.
*Mathew Williams and Tyler Williams  broke into the home of Gary Matson and Winfield Scott Mowder, an openly gay couple in Redding, California, United  States. The Williams brothers shot and killed Matson and Mowder and stole Matson's credit card and car. Mathew and  Tyler Williams were both affiliated with the Christian Identity movement and shared views that Blacks, Homosexuals, and  Jews were subhuman and needed to be eliminated for the survival of the White race.
*Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, "an avowed  white supremacists and member of the Christian Identity church, World Church of the Creator, injured a total of nine  people and killed two in his three day shooting spree. As the police closed in on Smith, he committed suicide."  Ben killed a Korean-American doctoral student, and an African American man.
*A gunman armed with a submachine gun  opened fire in the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, California, U.S.A., injuring  five people. Buford O'Neal Furrow Jr. surrendered to authorities in Las Vegas, Nevada and reportedly told police  authorities that he intended the attack as "a wake-up call to America to kill Jews."
*Shortly before 1:00 pm local time, a  bomb exploded in the first floor men's room of Lee Hall at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical (A & M) University in  Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A.. The explosion was very minor an caused little damage, but authorities suspected that the  device malfunctioned and was potentially capable of causing significant damage. An unidentified caller phoned a news  station with a racially charged tirade and claimed responsibility for the attack. A month later, another bomb  "exploded on the second floor of  Perry-Paige Hall at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical (A & M) University", followed by a racial tirade.

Anti-Globalization Terrorism (1 Attack):
*The Earth Liberation Front (ELF)  claimed responsibility for attempting to set a Nike shoe outlet on fire in Albertville, Minnesota, U.S.A. Authorities  discovered several milk jugs filled with gasoline on the roof of the building and evacuated the premises. The fire had  failed to ignite and no damages or injuries were caused. ELF stated that it targeted the Nike store because of  "treacherous conditions" at Nike plants around the world and because of the company's role in globalization of trade. 

Anti-Enviromentalist Terrorism (2 Attacks):
*"Raymond Kodiak Sandoval, a former  member of the Minutemen Militia, set two fires in the Jemez Mountains in New Mexico, United States that merged into a  single fire. The blaze, later monikered the Oso Complex Fire, lasted one week and required over eight-hundred firemen  to be extinguished. The fire burned over five thousand acres of land and caused around $3,500,000 in damages. ...  Sandoval claimed that he did it to protest the policies of environmentalists who attempted to pass legislation which  would kick poor Hispanics off of their land in northern New Mexico."
*[url=http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=199903200009]A pipe bomb was left in the mailbox  of the Forest Guardians, an environmentalist group, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.. The pipe bomb was 10 inches long,  had a cigarette fuse and was disarmed by the bomb squad. The Forest Guardians had been threatened previously for their  pro-environment agenda. The perpetrators were unknown.


Anti-Government Terrorism (4 Attacks):
*
"A stolen pickup truck carrying a homemade bomb crashed through the doors of the county courthouse in Lafayette,  Indiana, U.S.A., and ignited an accelerant on board, causing a fire that heavily damaged the building. However, the  bomb did not explode and no one was injured."
*Unknown perpetrators set fire to the  Internal Revenue Service Building in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. The buildings sustained heavy damages  and one firefighter was injured fighting the blaze.
*Three employees at an Internal  Revenue Service processing center in Ogden, Utah, U.S.A. were injured when they handled letters contaminated with an  unknown chemical agent.
*A letter mailed to the IRS office in  Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A. contained an unknown chemical agent that injured 3 people. Possiby related to the  attack on the IRS processing center in Ogden, Utah, but the Global Terrorist Database didn't mention the possiblity, so  I'm counting it as a seperate attack.

Anti-Kosovo War Terrorism, not Anti-Semitic (1 Attack):
*
A former National Guard pilot, Milan S. Mititch, broke into the 128th Air Refueling Wing air base at Mitchell  International Airport, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. to place a bomb as well as scrawled graffiti calling for an end to  intervention in Kosovo. The bomb failed to explode and the Mititch was later arrested for the incident. . The  actual graffiti was "Free Kosova".


Other (2 Attacks):
*"Kathryn Schoonover sent envelopes  filled with cyanide to several police officers, city officials, and mental health workers in Marina Del Rey,  California, U.S.A. No injuries were reported in the incident."
*Frank Darwin Alexander sent a  mail bomb to Bill Clinton, John Hagee (a preacher with Conerstone Ministers, in San Antonio), and the Bureau of  Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms office in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Not Counted:
*"An individual, Russell Watson, was  suspected of attacking the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C., U.S.A., killing two policemen and injuring  one." Not counted  as terrorism because he was found incompentent by court to stand trial, and I believe that the terrorist must be  sane at the time of committing terrorism. Russell Watson wanted to stop an imaginary disease called the Black Heva.
*Incidents involving buytic acid are not counted in this list of terrorist attacks, as buytic acid is considered  basically a stink bomb. I feel that stink bombs really do not qualify as terrorism, even though people has been injured  in these attacks. Most of the buytic acid attacks was done by  anti-abortion activists.  One buytic acid attack was done by  eco-terrorists, and another one  was done to protest the opening of a Borders bookstore.
*I consider the Columbine Shootings to be an example of mass murder, with no political rational behind it. So it is not counted as terrorism.
*A pipe bomb was found in a bathroom  at the Blanco High School in Blanco, Texas, U.S.A. Four students, including one girl, were arrested. I consider  it to be an example of mass murder.
*The Coalition to Save the Preserves  (CSP) claimed responsibility for burning a 5,000 square-foot luxury home in Scottsdale, Arizona U.S.A. The attack is  believed to have been dedicated to the late Geoffrey Platts, a Scottsdale author and environmentalist. The CSP is  opposed to homes being built in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale. In November 2001, Mark Warren Sands, a  confessed eco-terrorist, pled guilty to torching a string of luxury homes near mountain preserves in an attempt to save  the desert. It is believed that this attack is among those to which he is charged. Sands later alledgedly admitted  to a friend that he was motivated not by concerns about the environment, but rather by his own dark inner demons. Attack is not classified as terrorism due to the political rationale actually being a cover.
*Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States-Canada  border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of  the 2000 millennium attack plots. However, the attack was not carried out; I'm more interested in actual  terrorist attacks as opposed to failed terrorist plots.
*"Ali Abu Kamal opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, killing  a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the  gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of  Palestine". His widow claimed he became suicidal after losing $300,000 in a business venture. In a 2007 interview with  the New York Daily News his daughter said her mother's story was a cover crafted by the Palestinian Authority and that  her father wanted to punish the United States for its support of Israel." (Source is  Wikipedia.) The reason this is not counted  was because the terrorist attack occured on Feb. 24th 1997, and the GTD's metholody has changed in 1998, preventing me  from using this terrorist attack. As this was a Muslim terrorist attack, I felt it was important to point it out.

[/quote][/spoiler]

Can you make the second pie chart have the same style of captions as the one 1998-9/11? It's tough for me to see which colors are which on a dim monitor screen. By that I mean the arrows pointing to what the graph slices represent. I know it will be crammed in there due to the limited space, and also it's probably in the same order, but it still would make life easier for the users like me.

Also, thanks for doing this, it's an interesting piece of work.

[Phmcw]

You should maybe also make a graph including the casualties if you want to estimate the severity of the attacks.

also, what the hell  , your ecologists seems a bit belligerents .

[Ampersand]

1; Please make the categories have the same color in both graphs. As it stands, it seems a tad confusing and misleading at a glance, due to how no categories have the same color in the before and after graphs. Scratch that, I just realized, it's not that they don't have the same color, it's that the second has different categories with very similar colors. My mistake.

2; I also feel that there isn't much consistency in what you count as "terrorism". On the one hand, you don't count successful incidents involving buytic acid, but do count attempted, but failed, arson, which is then conflated with several bombings, shootings, and mass arson.

3; You seem to only count occasions where a political motivations were a factor, but have an 'Other' category. What were the political motivations in those incidents, and why can't they be categorized with other categories, or have individual descriptive categories?

[Urist Imiknorris]

The ecoterrorists do.

[mainiac]

A whole lot of this isn't what I would call terrorism.  Someone started a small fire in a planned parenthood office?  Sorry, but this liberal ain't shaking in his Birkenstocks.  And the entire animal rights section is "meh".  A distracted driver in my small town alone did more damage then environmental terrorists combined over these years.  We didn't call it terrorism.  We called it.  "Cool, we're getting a shiny new Pizza Hut."

[Ampersand]

Actually, probably most of the points I'd address in this thread were already covered in the previous thread linked to in the original post. By me, and a few others, actually. I forgot about that thread.

I have fewer problems with this one than I do with the last one, mainly because Servant Corps isn't drawing conclusions based upon the numbers as he did in the previous one ("lone wolves aren't dangerous"), but merely accounting for terrorist attacks, and the motivations behind them, and giving a percentage to the numbers involved.

Of course, if you really want to get interesting, my opinion is that you ought to try deeper analysis than this. Another set of graphs, Method of Attacks by Motive: Bombings by Motive, Arson by motive, Shooting by motive, etc. At least that way, the issue of conflation of relatively minor seeming attacks with relatively major attacks is avoided.

[Duke 2.0]

 Dammit Anti-eco-terrorist terrorists! You've only grown 1%! You gotta pick it up to address the growing eco-terrorist threat!