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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (79025)	11/1/2001 11:29:16 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116753

OT Another group of terrorists Group claims responsibility for firebombing federal corral By Scott Sonner Associated Press Writer RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A radical environmental group is claiming responsibility for firebombing a federal corral to protest government roundups of wild horses. The Earth Liberation Front said in a communique released by another group that it set firebombs at a Bureau of Land Management wild horse corral near the California-Nevada border. The communique was released by a spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front. ALF spokesman David Barbarash told The Associated Press Tuesday that the North American press office of the ALF in Courtenay, British Columbia, received it Monday from someone claiming to represent the ELF. The ELF statement said it set "four timed incendiary devices aimed at destroying two barns, two vehicles and one office building" at a BLM wild horse holding facility. The action was taken "in opposition to the Bureau of Land Management's continued war against the Earth," a copy of the message said. "For years, the BLM has rounded up thousands of wild horses and burros to clear public land for grazing cattle. ... In the name of all that is wild we will continue to target industries and organizations that seek to profit by destroying the Earth." One of four firebombs with timing devices started a fire that destroyed a barn full of hay, causing $85,000 in damage on Oct. 15 at the BLM's Litchfield horse facility about 80 miles north of Reno near Susanville, Calif. No one was injured. The communique, however, contained some inaccuracies in describing the incident. It said the ELF attacked the BLM's "wild horse holding facility in Corvallis, Calif. on October 17th, 2001." The date was wrong, and there is no Corvallis, Calif. BLM said it has no facility in Corvallis, Ore. Otherwise, the information is consistent with the attack at the Litchfield corral Oct. 15, including the description of cutting sections from wooden fences to corrals holding more than 200 wild horses "in order to free them from captivity." Barbarash said he serves as spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front but also has been acting as a temporary go-between for the Earth Liberation Front because "right now there is no person working the ELF press office." The FBI is investigating the firebombing. FBI spokesman Nick Rossi in Sacramento said he was unaware of anyone claiming responsibility. Bomb squads were able to disarm three of the incendiary devices before they went off. The horses were far from the bombs and not in any danger. None escaped, the BLM said. The BLM estimates 48,000 wild horses and burros are running free across parts of 10 Western states, about half of them in Nevada. Last year the agency rounded up an estimated 7,000 wild horses, but agency officials said earlier this year the population is too large for the range to sustain and they'd like to pare it nearly in half by 2005. ELF and ALF have claimed responsibility over the past five years for dozens of actions across the country, including an arson at the BLM wild horse corrals near Burns, Ore., in November 1997.

To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (79025)	11/2/2001 9:20:18 AM
From: Alex	Respond to of 116753

CB's to reduce gold sales????????? London (Platts)--1Nov2001 Central banks are more likely to hold onto their gold bullion and limit sales to those agreed under the Washington Agreement on Gold in the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center, the World Gold Council said in a release Thursday. "Focusing just on the future of gold as an official reserve asset, my view is that the immediate effect will be to "freeze" central banks in their existing policies and positions on gold," said Dick Ware, manager, regulatory affairs, of the World Gold Council. "In addition, we are unlikely to see any large selling outside WAG." Speaking at an international precious metals conference in Moscow, Ware said representatives from the WGC had met all major gold shareholders outside of WAG and "concluded that none of them are likely to sell gold." "Given the circumstances, it would be natural for central banks and governments to look more favorably at the case for having a reasonable ratio of gold in their external reserves," said Ware. "This applies especially to those central banks that have very little if any gold at present." However, Ware's comments were dismissed by Howard Patten, metals analyst at Barclays Capital. "It takes a good dose of mental gymnastics to get your head around the idea that members of the Washington accord will turn net buyers from being net sellers, and that is what we would need," said Patten. Patten also pointed out that the "Bank of England sold immediately after the attacks, and the Swiss sales rate increased following the attacks while prices were higher." In the long run, said Ware, the impact of recent events is likely to be positive for gold as a reserve and monetary asset by tending to reinforce and remind people of many of the longstanding key arguments for gold. "If you weigh things up, you have the world's major central banks selling 400mt gold versus 'major' banks outside the Washington accord who 'may' limit sales. It is very unlikely to happen to put it mildly," said Patten.