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	#08-08-01: Attorney General Prepared Remarks Operation Avalanche Press Conference [NOTE: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OFTEN ...
		More than merely another successfully prosecuted case, Operation Avalanche stands as a model of federal, state and local cooperation in the investigation, prosecution and most importantly prevention of the sexual exploitation of children.
		These offenders leverage the technology and anonymity of the internet to trade and produce child pornography, explore their sexual interest in children, and to identify youth susceptible to manipulation and exploitation.
		Today, we are announcing the results of Operation Avalanche -- a first of its kind initiative involving unprecedented cooperation between local, state and federal law enforcement.
	www.usdoj.gov /archive/ag/speeches/2001/080801childpornography.htm (912 words)

	2001 Annual Report of Investigations - Child Exploitation
		Use of the mail to traffic in child pornography, or otherwise sexually exploit children, continues to be a significant problem.
		Child molesters and pornographers often use the Internet to seek potential victims, communicate with like-minded individuals and locate sources of child pornography.
		Operation Avalanche began in 1999, when Postal Inspectors found that a husband and wife in Ft. Worth, TX, were using a Web site to advertise and distribute child pornography.
	www.usps.com /postalinspectors/ar01_07.htm (1200 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Operation Avalanche: Tracking child porn
		Operation Avalanche which began in the USA has become the world's largest child porn investigation - posing huge problems for police forces around the world.
		Operation Avalanche was a carefully planned investigation which aimed to smash what the US Department of Justice believed was the largest child pornography ring it had ever discovered.
		This arrangement made it far harder to crack than standard criminal operations as it was twice as hard for investigators to find out who was behind the websites.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/2445065.stm (659 words)

	Arizona's child porn law under attack
		Arizona's child pornography possession law, which has been hailed as the nation's harshest, is coming under fire.
		Selling, downloading, trading or buying child pornography is considered as serious a crime in Arizona as molesting a child: 10 to 24 years for each count.
		Berger was nabbed by Operation Avalanche, a federal-state task force that intercepted his credit card when he was trying to buy pictures of children who had been identified.
	www.azcentral.com /specials/special21/articles/0519sexlaw.html (1014 words)

	Print Article: UK operation probes MPs
		Two British members of parliament are being investigated for accessing child pornography websites, in the huge police operation that has embroiled rock star Pete Townshend.
		The MPs, both reported to be former Labour ministers, are the latest public figures to be caught up in Operation Ore, the largest inquiry into child pornography undertaken in the United Kingdom.
		Operation Ore is the British end of the US Justice Department's Operation Avalanche, which was sparked when the US Postal Service closed down the now notorious Landslide Promotions gateway, which is thought to have been used by more than 75,000 people worldwide in the late 1990s.
	www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/01/13/1041990230708.html (570 words)

	Task force targets child porn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Avalanche, which was to become a blueprint for investigations into Internet child pornography, grew out of an investigation into Landslide Productions of Fort Worth, Texas, which was distributing child pornography.
		People who are only users of child pornography are likely to be prosecuted in the state courts rather than at the federal level, said Sullivan, who spent 27 years as the Yakima County prosecuting attorney.
		But if the person is producing the pornography, distributing it or has a criminal history of abusing children, "these people move to the head of the line," he said.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/112807_childporn17.shtml (1835 words)

	President Increases Federal Efforts to Promote Online Safety
		Until recently, the worst kind of pornography was mainly limited to red-light districts or restricted to adults or confined by geography, isolated by shame.
		You are responsible for the welfare of your child.
		In Operation Avalanche, postal inspectors created an undercover website which they used to bring down what is to believe -- what is believed to be the largest commercial child pornography enterprise ever encountered by law enforcement authorities in the United States.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2002/10/20021023-8.html (1796 words)

	#405: 08-16-01 ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT SPOTLIGHTS KNOXVILLE'S EFFORTS TO PROTECT CHILDREN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Knoxville Police Department played a significant role in the Operation Avalanche undercover child pornography investigation that the Attorney General announced last week.
		Operation Avalanche has already resulted in 96 arrests in 37 states, with additional arrests forthcoming.
		The Knoxville task force made eight of the Operation Avalanche arrests.
	www.usdoj.gov /opa/pr/2001/August/405ag.htm (482 words)

	The rocker and a hard place - smh.com.au
		That Townshend "outed" himself with the superficially dubious explanation that he accessed child porn as research for his forthcoming autobiography is the only vaguely mitigating factor in an otherwise open-and-shut case that has sent Britain's media polemicists into a frenzy.
		Avalanche, which involves six federal agencies, began when the US Postal Service intercepted a suspect package sent to Thomas Reedy - a former nurse - and Janice Reedy, a computer programmer, in Fort Worth, Texas.
		Child welfare authorities and internet watchdogs have said that even if Townshend was surfing child porn sites for "research" purposes, this was no excuse.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/15/1042520671305.html (1574 words)

	Facts about operation avalanche afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Operation Avalanche was a four-week U.S-led offensive in December of 2003 designed to disrupt a resurgence in militant activity in the southeastern territory of Afghanistan and to establish conditions for the provision of humanitarian aid.
		Described by the U.S. government as the biggest ground operation in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, the offensive led to the capture of more than 100 suspects and the deaths of 10.
		The operation was marred by the accidental killings of 15 children in raids on suspected militants.
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/operation_avalanche__afghanistan_.html (157 words)

	U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Operation Avalanche
		Operation Avalanche began in 1999, when Postal Inspectors discovered that a Ft. Worth, Texas, company, Landslide Productions, Inc., operated and owned by Thomas and Janice Reedy, was selling child pornography Web sites.
		After reviewing volumes of seized evidence and subpoenaed financial records, the Reedy’s were indicted in federal district court on 89 counts of conspiracy to distribute child pornography and possession of child pornography.
		Investigators obtained and served search warrants, seized huge volumes of child pornography images and materials, identified child molesters, and rescued victimized children from further sexual abuse.
	www.usps.com /postalinspectors/avalanch.htm (735 words)

	FC: Transcript of DOJ "Operation Avalanche" child porn a
		Today we are announcing the results of Operation Avalanche, a first of its kind initiative involving unprecedented cooperation between local, state and federal law enforcement.
		Of even greater concern, more and more child molesters and child pornographers are turning to cyberspace to seek out potential victims, communicate with others, and locate sources of child pornography.
		The consumer or user of child pornography is no less responsible for sexual exploitation of children than is the producer or distributor.
	www.fitug.de /news/newsticker/old/2001/newsticker090801094442.html (3194 words)

	CBC News: the fifth estate: Landslide- porn laws in canada
		THE 1993 LAW: Canada’s current child pornography law was passed in 1993 and is considered to have some of the harshest penalties in the world.
		It deals specifically with child pornography and exploitation on the internet and specifically banned cyber-luring, using the internet to communicate with children for sex.
		In 1995 John Robin Sharpe was arrested and charged with two counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of distributing child pornography.
	www.cbc.ca /fifth/landslide/laws.html (872 words)

	Protecting Children Online - Real Cases - San Diego District Attorney
		A musician was indicted for producing and distributing child pornography, including a videotape that shows him having sex with an 11-year-old girl.
		He was found guilty of 89 counts of sexual exploitation of minors, distribution of child pornography and conspiracy.
		A Pasadena math teacher is on trial for keeping hundreds of images of child pornography, trying to seduce underage girls over the Internet and having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl.
	www.sdcda.org /protecting/children_cases.php (992 words)

	toledoblade.com -- Internet blamed for increase in child-sex trade
		Investigations into child pornography have netted suspects from all walks of life, as last month's raid on the home of Fremont Councilman Ken Schneider demonstrates.
		Reports must pertain to child pornography, child prostitution, child sex tourism, child sexual molestation, online enticement of children for sexual acts, and unsolicited obscene material sent to a child.
		Child pornography amounts to about 93 percent of the types of cases being reported, said Ruben Rodriquez, director of the center's Exploited Child Unit.
	www.toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20021103&Category=NEWS17&ArtNo=111030117&Ref=AR (854 words)

	Salem Avalanche - Press Release
		SALEM, VA -- The Salem Avalanche have joined forces with Operation Blue Ridge Thunder in the fight against child pornography and other cyberspace crimes against children for the second annual Safe Surfin' Day on Tuesday, June 6th at Salem Memorial Baseball Stadium.
		Avalanche mascot Mugsy and players Justin Hemme and Scott Seal have joined Operation Blue Ridge Thunder for some of the school visits.
		Avalanche fans are encouraged to attend Tuesday's day game and join the students for what will be an exciting afternoon at Salem Memorial Baseball Stadium.
	www.salemavalanche.com /releases/060500.html (321 words)

	Commercial child porn ring bust leads to 100 arrests - ZDNet UK
		A two-year investigation, dubbed Operation Avalanche, came to a head yesterday when US attorney general John Ashcroft issued a string of arrest warrants for child pornography subscribers and merchants in the US, Indonesia and Russia.
		Sommer acted as an expert defence witness at the Operation Cathedral trial in January, and explains that Wonderland was more typical, an elite group of people who used the Internet to swap images of children among themselves.
		Operation Avalanche was a nationwide investigation involving the Dallas police and the US Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), which first detected the Landslide ring.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /internet/0,1000000097,2092866,00.htm (620 words)

	News from Agape Press
		Almost 150 arrests have resulted thus far from Operation Avalanche, and Chief Postal Inspector Kenneth Weaver says it is not over yet.
		Weaver believes it is time to clamp down on child pornographers who have been getting more aggressive in their actions.
		"The use of the mail to traffic in child pornography continues to be a tragic problem in our society," he says.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/8/222001d.asp (294 words)

	CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CASES INVOLVING THE INTERNET
		Sussex Police has made 110 arrests as part of Operation Ore, the national crackdown on child abuse on the net, and seized more than 1,000 computers from addresses across both the east and west of the county.
		"People who access child pornography are fuelling the widespread and often organised sexual abuse of children by paedophiles across the world." "The government is determined to give the highest priority to protecting our children, on and off-line, and to searching out and arresting those who prey upon them.
		While it is agreed globally that efforts must be taken to prevent the production and circulation of child pornography, the debate surrounding explicit content is a complex one which differs from country to country.
	www.cyber-rights.org /reports/child.htm (3608 words)

	injusticebusters 2003 > > Computer child porn: Operation Snowball is a witch-hunt and make-work project
		Suzanne Théberge, spokeswoman for federal Justice Minister Martin Cauchon, noted that at a recent meeting of federal, provincial and territorial ministers, the politicians agreed that stronger measures to protect children from sexual exploitation are needed: "It's an ongoing process," she said.
		The warrants stem from previous a previous investigation in New Zealand and ``Operation Avalanche'' in Texas, which in 1999 uncovered the largest chid porn enterprise in the United States, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
		Operation Avalanche identified a company known as Landslide Productions of Fort Worth, Texas, which had a 250,000-customer base and grossed as much as $1.4 million a month from selling child pornography on the Internet.
	www.injusticebusters.com /2003/childporn_witchhunt.htm (5507 words)

	FOXNews.com - U.S. Kills 10 Enemy Fighters in Afghanistan - U.S. & World
		The operation involved more than 2,000 U.S. troops in an area of southern and eastern Afghanistan the size of California, though there were no major skirmishes.
		Still, the start of the operation was overshadowed by the deaths of 15 children in raids on suspected militants.
		Avalanche was also supposed to keep militants on the defensive during a historic constitutional convention, or loya jirga, which began in the capital, Kabul, more than two weeks ago.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,106947,00.html (717 words)

	A force to be reckoned with \| Society \| SocietyGuardian.co.uk
		Operation Ore, the police investigation into a child porn ring, is raising fundamental questions about the priority the police attach to child protection and about the capacity of the Home Office to respond to rapid change
		The Home Office minister, Hilary Benn, implied this was an operational matter for the police to resolve within their existing budgets.
		It found that around 35% of those initially arrested for possessing child pornography were also engaged in sexually abusing a child.
	society.guardian.co.uk /children/comment/0,1074,838567,00.html (988 words)

	Ecpat International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Police forces across Britain are already struggling to cope with Operation Ore which led to the arrest of Who guitarist Pete Townshend.
		He has admitted viewing indecent images of children but said it was for research into an autobiography as he had been abused himself as a child.
		Operation Ore followed on from Operation Avalanche, a US Justice Department crackdown on more than 250,000 suspected paedophiles around the world.
	www.ecpat.net /eng/ecpat_inter/irc/newsdesk_articles.asp?SCID=992 (492 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Global weapon to fight child net porn
		It is part of an initiative from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to tackle pornography in Eastern Europe and South East Asia, where much of the indecent imagery of children comes from.
		It was used in the widely publicised Operation Appal, in which 40 suspects were arrested.
		"Child protection is of the highest priority to the government," said Home Office Minister Hilary Benn in a statement.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/2463305.stm (599 words)

	Protecting Children Online - An ECPAT Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is the largest known commercial child pornography enterprise uncovered.
		However, they narrowed their investigation to the 400 distributors of the child pornography.
		Sadly, the investigators reported that these on-line sex abusers have learnt lessons from the Wonderland and Avalanche Operations and have been developing new and innovative ways to hide their true identities.
	www.ecpat.net /eng/ecpat_inter/publication/other/english/html_page/ecpat_prot_child_online/files/danger5.htm (347 words)

	Increasing Online Safety for America's Children
		To date, 130 individuals have been charged in the operation, which broke up what is believed to be the largest commercial child pornography enterprise ever encountered by law enforcement authorities in the United States.
		In Operation Hamlet, the Customs Service dismantled an international ring of child molesters who, in many cases, molested their own children and distributed the images over the Internet.
		To report information about child pornography and the online enticement of children, parents can log on to http://www.cybertipline.com or call the Tipline at 1-800-843-5678.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2002/10/20021023.html (894 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. targets porn site's customers - August 8, 2001
		One postal inspection official said that of 1,022 violators of child porn laws since 1997, 368 had been determined to be child molesters.
		In the operation, undercover agents contacted people who had been customers of Landslide and offered to sell them child pornography.
		After the pornography was delivered to a customer, law enforcement agents moved in to make arrest.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/LAW/08/08/ashcroft.childporn (470 words)

	Ashcroft's Paedophile Terror
		"Operation Candyman", one of a number of initiatives against paedophilia and internet child pornography, was a sting operation started under the new Bush administration in January 2001.
		Later we learned of "Operation Avalanche", a vastly larger operation, which produced (up to Jan. 2003) at least 300,000 "identities" worldwide, including over 7000 in Britain (Operation Ore includes these 7000 "identities" too).
		Numbers have been arrested in connection with child porn; the "exposure" is often seen to come from the FBI.
	www.geocities.com /libertystrikesback/candyman.html (1804 words)

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