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...group has evaded detection by staying so compartmentalized that some law-enforcement officials wonder if it is even a real group. The ELF's website seems to hint that it may not be anything more than a common name for isolated individuals who advocate economic sabotage. Anyone agreeing with the ELF's goals, advises the website, can "begin taking action in the name of the Earth Liberation Front...
...group, which calls itself Earth Liberation Front, has claimed responsibility for setting fire to three luxury homes under construction on an old peach farm in the historic town of Mount Sinai. The fires caused moderate damage, and the ELF later claimed responsibility in a faxed statement to the Associated Press. But investigators on site in New York didn't need a communique. Across the double garage doors of a fourth house was scrawled, IF YOU BUILD IT, WE WILL BURN IT. Next to it were the letters ELF...
...ELF emerged in 1997, a few years after another radical environmental group, Earth First!, renounced the use of violence. Since then, ELF members and sympathizers have waged a stealth war against "those who profit from the destruction of the natural environment." The attacks include a $12 million fire at a ski resort in Vail, Colo.; a $500,000 fire at a timber-company headquarters in Medford, Ore.; and another that destroyed a partly built home in Bloomington, Ind., that the ELF said was part of a development that threatened the local water supply...
...another instance, North says, a doctoral student accepted a job as an elf despite the fact that she had "no idea how to boil water, open a bottle of wine, plan for a party, water plants, walk a dog or any other household activity...
Fiona A. Torres '02, who co-supervises the Mather workers, says she was surprised to hear about the elf system...