Incident Date:
October 11, 1996
Incident Successful:
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Perpetrators: Animal Avengers
Event Type: Threat
Weapon Type(s): Chemical (Poisoning)
Organization Type: Environmentalist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: Yes
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror:
Target Information
1- Food or Water Supply(Food Supply)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "10/11/1996: The weekend prior to Canadian Thanksgiving, local TV news stations and the Vancouver Sun in British Colombia, received letters from the ""Animal Avenger"" animal-rights group claiming that turkeys being sold at grocery stores were poisoned. "
References: 1) Monterey WMD Terrorism Database
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