Daniel Andreas San Diego (born February 9, 1978) is an American domestic terrorism suspect who is listed on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list. He is a

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vegan Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal product—particularly in diet—and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. An individual who follows the diet or philosophy is known as a vegan. Di ...

environmentalist An environmentalist is a person who is concerned with and/or advocates for the protection of the environment. An environmentalist can be considered a supporter of the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that se ...

and

animal liberationist The animal rights (AR) movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that seeks an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals ...

believed to have ties to an Animal Liberation Brigade cell responsible for two bombings in 2003. Andreas is also believed to have ties to Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. __TOC__

Background

San Diego was born in 1978 in

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and grew up in

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. He attended Terra Linda High School. He took classes at College of Marin and worked at San Rafael High School's

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station, KSRH, listening to heavy metal and

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. As a young man he gave up

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, and

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, taking an interest in the

movement and becoming

. At the time of the bombings he lived in Schellville, California, a small community outside of Sonoma, where he worked as a computer specialist. His landlord described him as "very nice and personable," mentioned his claim to be starting a new business venture of vegan marshmallows made without

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, and said that he had never given the impression of holding

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views on

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. The

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claims this was all an act. San Diego is described as having ties to Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) as a well-known

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animal rights activist. SHAC is an international campaign set up to close down Europe's largest animal testing laboratory,

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, a company that performs drug and chemical research experiments on animals. Before the related bombings SHAC targeted HLS customer Chiron and its employees with a series of actions, accusing them of being "puppy killers."

Animal Liberation Brigade

On August 28, 2003, two sophisticated homemade bombs exploded approximately one hour apart, at the Chiron Corporation in

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, causing minor property damage but no injuries. The FBI believes the second bomb was timed to target first responders. Another bomb, wrapped with nails to produce shrapnel, exploded on September 26, 2003 at the

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in Pleasanton, California, again causing damage but no casualties. The bombs used ammonium nitrate explosives and mechanical timers. A group called the

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claimed responsibility via an email message after each bombing. FBI agents admit that they cannot prove San Diego has ties to the emails, but believe he has ties to the group that sent them. The FBI stated San Diego is suspected of having carried out the bombing. The bombing targets were chosen because they were both clients of Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Disappearance

The FBI had San Diego under 24-hour surveillance in 2003. He discovered that he was being watched and on October 6, 2003 parked his car in downtown

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, California, walked away, and never returned.

Most Wanted

Daniel Andreas San Diego was indicted in 2004. He became the first domestic terrorism suspect to be added to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists List, and first animal rights activist. In 2014, as part of the FBI's National Digital Billboard Initiative, San Diego was to be featured on electronic billboards throughout California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Nevada, and Florida, and along the US-Canada border in New York and Washington State. At one point, the FBI believed he was in the

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area. In early 2014, the FBI announced that they had "credible intelligence" that San Diego might be on Hawaii's Big Island. San Diego was profiled on ''

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'' five times after his disappearance. , a reward of up to US$250,000 was available for information that leads to the arrest of San Diego.

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