Mansions Destroyed in US by Environmental Protesters

by Sreeraman on  March 04, 2008 at 5:51 PM Environmental Health
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Mansions Destroyed in US by Environmental Protesters
Protests against posh living are reaching extraordinary lengths in the US.

Fire destroyed five luxury homes Monday morning at a subdivision north of Seattle in the state of Washington.

Police suspect it to be a case ecoterrorism. A sign with the letters "ELF" was found at the scene of the fires in the "Street of Dreams" development in Woodinville, said Chief Rick Eastman of Snohomish County Fire District No. 7.

Eastman did not say if the sign stood for the Earth Liberation Front, which the FBI has called an ecoterrorist group.

"Built green? Nope black!" the sign reads, according to an image from CNN affiliate KING-TV in Seattle. The sign calls the homes "McMansions."

John Heller, president of Seattle Street of Dreams model luxury home development, said he had spoken to the fire chief and was told that the fires were suspicious.

"My understanding is that it was an act of terror," Heller said.

The FBI said the fires were being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism.

Heller said he was out of town on business and was rushing back to see what was left of the development. He said it was a new subdivision that featured luxury homes priced at $2 million.

Video footage showed large grayish white plumes of smoke billowing in the air and firefighters trying to contain blazes in large homes in a heavily wooded area.

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