Animal Rights Group Claims Credit for Botched Arson Attempt The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) web site is claiming responsibility for a failed arson attempt in Los Angeles. On June 30, an incendiary device, intended for the home of a UCLA psychiatry professor, was placed at the wrong address. Fortunately, for the elderly homeowner the device did not detonate and no one was injured. ALF claims that the intended target of the explosive device was keeping monkeys to study "psychological, psychiatric and social problems such as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, substance abuse, criminality and violence." Arson investigators stated that had the device functioned properly, the 70-year-old homeowner would have had a difficult time escaping. It is exactly this type of reckless crime that has led the FBI to list animal rights terrorism as one of the largest domestic terrorism threats in the United States. The press officer of the ALF, Jerry Vlasak, recently declined an FBI invitation to speak about animal rights activism at FBI headquarters in Quantico, Virginia. Vlasak and his wife,Pamelyn Ferdin, were convicted of illegally demonstrating outside the home of a Los Angeles city animal service employee.