A shaky, amateurish video shows everything in graphic detail: Four masked people break into darkened university labs, pour toxic chemicals onto computers and stacks of files, and release hundreds of research rats and mice. They spray-paint walls with slogans such as “Science not Sadism” and “Free the Animals.”
The November break-in at the University of Iowa’s Spence Laboratories – a crime for which there have been no arrests but for which the group Animal Liberation Front, or ALF, has claimed responsibility – is characterized by university and law-enforcement officials as terrorism.
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