Revealed: Animal Rights Extremists Set Up Combat Skills Training Camp in Britain: IoS Investigation ; Activists from around the World Are Coming to This Country to Prepare Themselves for Battle in What They Call "The Animal Liberation War"

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Britain is the new training ground for animal rights activists, with anti-vivisectionists travelling here from all over the world to learn techniques of unarmed combat and how to evade arrest.

Up to 300 young militants from abroad, including about 50 from the United States, will arrive in Britain next month for a training camp. They will be taught to climb using ropes - useful in scaling buildings - plus skills required by hunt saboteurs.

The four-day training workshop for aspiring anti- vivisectionists, in Tonbridge, Kent, has been organised by the two most prominent and militant groups - Speak, which is campaigning for the closure of Oxford University's new …