Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Eco-terror suspected in Seattle blazes
WOODINVILLE, Wash. — Investigators planned to sift through the rubble today of three luxury show homes in a Seattle suburb that may have been torched by eco-terrorists who mocked developer claims that the houses were environmentally "built green."
Explosive devices were found Monday in five model homes in Woodinville, Wash., said Rick Eastman, a district fire chief in Snohomish County. He said 70 firefighters answering a pre-dawn call were able to save two homes but three others were destroyed. There were no injuries.
A white sheet spray-painted in red was found on a nearby fence. It said, "Built Green? Nope black!" and "McMansions in RCDs r not green," a reference to rural cluster developments. The sheet was signed ELF, the initials of the radical Earth Liberation Front....