FBI's Most Wanted lists 1st domestic terror suspect Animal rights activist sought in bombings

Ben Conery and Audrey Hudson THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The FBI on Tuesday will for the first time add the name of a domestic-terrorism suspect to its list of Most Wanted Terrorists, a post-Sept. 11 creation that until now has included only suspected Islamist terrorists, a law enforcement official told The Washington Times.
Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 31-year-old animal rights activist, is wanted in connection with the 2003 bombings of two companies in the San Francisco Bay Area linked to an animal-testing laboratory.
San Diego will take his place on a list that has included notorious international terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri and Adam Gadahn, the American-born al Qaeda spokesman, said the law enforcement official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt the official announcement.
The announcement is being made nearly a week after The Times reported on a Homeland Security Department assessment warning that war veterans could be susceptible to recruitment into "right-wing extremism." The report unleashed a firestorm of controversy and led to an apology to veterans from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
San Diego apparently is linked to radical animal rights activists. The FBI has estimated that such groups have committed more than 1,000 crimes and caused more than $100 million in damage.
Authorities say San Diego planted bombs at the corporate offices of two biotechnology companies, Chiron Life Sciences Center in Emeryville, Calif., and Shaklee Corp. in Pleasanton, Calif.
No one was killed or injured in either early-morning attack, but the explosions damaged both buildings.
Authorities say San Diego targeted those businesses because of their links to Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an international laboratory that conducts testing on animals, including trials of medicine, food and chemicals to determine whether they are safe for humans.
HLS is a frequent target of animal rights activists and radicals, who accuse it of conducting unnecessary and cruel experiments. For example, the activists say, HLS employees have punched beagle puppies in their faces.
After the second bombing, in which the pipe bomb was loaded with nails, authorities received a claim of responsibility from the previously unknown Revolutionary Cells-Animal Liberation Brigade.
"We gave all of the customers the chance, the choice, to withdraw their business from HLS," according to an anonymous communique released after the attack. "Now you will all reap what you have sown. All customers and their families are considered legitimate targets."
A federal arrest warrant was issued for San Diego in October 2003 that charged him with using explosives to maliciously damage and destroy buildings and other property.
He has remained a fugitive since then.
According to the FBI, San Diego is a strict vegan, meaning he eats no meat or food containing animal products. He is also known to carry a 9 mm handgun.
The case has been featured five times on the television program "America's Most Wanted."
According to the program, San Diego became involved with animal rights radicals in the late 1980s. He wore a jacket at one time printed with the phrase, "Vegan Death Crew."