Daniel Andreas San Diego (born February 9, 1978) is an American domestic terrorist who is listed on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list. He is a straight edge vegan environmentalist and animal liberationist 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.[1][2][3][4]
San Diego was born in 1978 in Berkeley, California and grew up in San Rafael, California. He attended Terra Linda High School.[5] He took classes at College of Marin and worked at San Rafael High School's radio station, KSRH, listening to heavy metal and rock music. As a young man he gave up drugs, alcohol, meat, and milk products, taking an interest in the straight edge movement and becoming vegan.[1][2]
At the time of the bombings he lived in Schellville, California, a small community outside of Sonoma, where he worked as a computer specialist.[6][7] His landlord described him as "very nice and personable," mentioned his claim to be starting a new business venture of vegan marshmallows made without gelatin, and said that he had never given the impression of holding radical views on animal rights. The FBI claims this was all an act.[2]
San Diego is described as having ties to Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) as a well-known San Francisco Bay Area animal rights activist. SHAC is an international campaign set up to close down Europe's largest animal testing laboratory, Huntingdon Life Sciences, a company that performs drug and chemical research experiments on animals.[8] Before the related bombings SHAC targeted HLS customer Chiron and its employees with a series of actions, accusing them of being "puppy killers."[1][8]
On August 28, 2003, two sophisticated homemade bombs exploded approximately one hour apart, at the Chiron CorporationinEmeryville, California, causing minor property damage but no injuries.[1][9] The FBI believes the second bomb was timed to target first responders.[10] Another bomb, wrapped with nails to produce shrapnel, exploded on September 26, 2003 at the Shaklee CorporationinPleasanton, California, again causing damage but no casualties.[11] The bombs used ammonium nitrate explosives and mechanical timers.[12]
A group called the Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade claimed responsibility via an email message after each bombing.[3] 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.[2][11] The bombing targets were chosen because they were both clients of Huntingdon Life Sciences.[8]
The agency had San Diego under 24-hour surveillance in 2003.[13] He discovered that he was being watched and on October 6, 2003 parked his car in downtown San Francisco, California, walked away, and never returned.[2]
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San Diego was profiled on America's Most Wanted six times after his disappearance. In April 2009, he became the first domestic terrorism suspect to be added to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists List. At one point, the FBI believed he was in the Northampton, Massachusetts area.
In February 2014, as part of the FBI’s National Digital Billboard Initiative, San Diego’s photo, summary of crimes, and the tip line 1-800-CALL-FBI will be featured on electronic billboards throughout California, as well as along the U.S.-Canada border in New York and Washington State. Billboards in Massachusetts, Oregon, Nevada, and Florida will also feature the San Diego case.[needs update]
In early 2014, the FBI announced that they had "credible intelligence" that San Diego might be on Hawaii's Big Island.[14]
A reward of up to $250,000 USD is available for information that leads to the arrest of San Diego.
Given the mass surveillance revelations of Edward Snowden in 2013 noted video face recognition software capacity and the capability of the NSA to spy domestically by tapping into private CCTV feeds, there exists a credibility gap in the FBI's inability to locate San Diego. At the time of his disappearance, the insurgency was taking off in Iraq, and one theory is the military recruited San Diego due to his expertise with improvised explosive devices and gave him a new life.
Another view is San Diego's actions were a covert false flag for government or corporate interests - or both. In 2002, Foster City pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences had switched its focus on antivirals, and Chiron Corporation held critical patents, especially in lucrative market for Hepatitis C treatments. In 2015, the Panama Papers revealed Gilead has substantial overseas investors in China via a series of shell corporations called "Deacons." From 1988-2000, Donald Rumsfeld was on the board of Gilead. The intimidation of Chiron executives lead to the improbable dissolution of the biotech powerhouse, paving the way for the rise of Gilead and AbbVie to enter the antiretroviral market. The price gouging of those companies and abuse of patent law is widely viewed as unethical, and the contract assassinations of Los Angeles biotech executive James Patrick Riley in 2001, Canadian biotech executive Barry Sherman in 2017, and possibly Rodolphe Merieux in 1996 leave corporate espionage and organized crime within the realm of possiblity
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