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Daniel Andreas San Diego, a suspected terrorist who managed to avoid capture by the FBI for over two decades, was recently located in Wales and faces extradition to the United States for trial. San Diego, aged 47, had been listed as one of the FBI’s “most wanted fugitives” due to his involvement in bombings in San Francisco, California, back in 2003. Following 21 years of evading law enforcement, he was apprehended in November 2024 in a remote area near Maenan, Conwy.
At Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Judge Goozée dismissed the legal arguments presented by San Diego’s defense team, although the decision on whether they will appeal has yet to be finalized. Born in Berkeley, California, San Diego is accused of having planted three nail bombs at two California companies, Chiron Corporation and Shaklee Corporation, both of which had ties to Huntingdon Life Sciences, a research organization known for conducting animal testing. According to Assistant US Attorney Helen Gilbert, the bombings were targeted because of these companies’ relationship with Huntingdon.
Gilbert outlined the incidents in court, describing how two homemade devices detonated at Chiron’s Emeryville headquarters during the early morning of 28 August 2003. While employees were present at the site, there were no injuries, although property damage resulted. The animal rights group Animal Liberation Brigade, Revolutionary Cells, later claimed responsibility for the attack via an electronic message on an animal rights magazine bulletin board. The following bombing occurred at Shaklee’s headquarters in Pleasanton, California, on 26 September 2003, at around 3:20am. Although no one was harmed, the bomb contained nails that could have seriously injured anyone nearby. This attack was also claimed by the same group.
San Diego became a prime suspect after being stopped by traffic police near the site of one of the explosions that very night. After he was released, he disappeared, with the government later linking his fingerprints to bomb-making materials found in an abandoned vehicle. When arrested by the National Crime Agency, San Diego was taken to HMP Belmarsh, a high-security prison in London. At the time of his arrest, he was found living in a secluded cottage near Llanrwst in the Conwy Valley, where evidence indicated he kept a low profile under the identity of Danny Webb, holding an Irish passport. He reportedly worked as an IT consultant, but little is known about his activities during his two decades on the run.
San Diego was among America’s most wanted fugitives and had been featured multiple times on the Fox programme *America’s Most Wanted*. The FBI listed him alongside notorious figures such as Osama Bin Laden and Abdul Rahman Yasin, known for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. When San Diego disappeared into a San Francisco subway station, the FBI was actively tracking him around the clock, poised to detain him in connection with a series of California bombings.
During his extradition hearing, San Diego’s legal team claimed that a fair trial in the U.S. could not be guaranteed due to potential political and legal interference. Prosecutors countered these concerns, noting that there was no evidence of any interference or mention of his case by former President Donald Trump or other officials in power, maintaining that San Diego would receive a fair trial under the U.S. judicial system
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