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COPYRIGHT 2001 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
SEATTLE _ The first point they want to make is that killing people is not their thing. Breaking windows and starting fires _ these are OK in the anarchist playbook, but not snuffing out humans.
So it is with reservation that the anarchists of Eugene applauded the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon. But make no mistake: They are applauding, if only among themselves.
"Those buildings not being there anymore _ it's hard not to feel satisfaction about that," said "Rottin' " Robin Terranova, a bush-bearded man in his 30s and an organizer among the anarchists who gather, after a fashion, in Eugene, Ore.
Terranova and his compatriots don't feel compelled to publicize their satisfaction _ even anarchists recognize a public-relations pitfall _ but among local anarchists here, there is a notable "America had it coming" smugness.
It fits with the profile. They were the black-clad mob that rolled through Seattle during WTO in 1999, screaming for the downfall of government and corporations and contributing mightily to property damage totaling $3 million.
They went on to disrupt trade...
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