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Note from WAR: The following action alert was forwarded from SHAC UK. After only two weeks of intense campaigning, BDO has cut their ties to HLS. SHAC has also announced a new financial target - Fortress Global Investments. Fortress is a New York City =-O based international investment firm with offices across the USA and around the world (http://www.fortress.com/site_content.aspx?s=4). Most of the directors of Fortress have Manhattan residences. WAR actions will begin with protests very soon. Stay tuned for announcements about times/dates/places. For those of you who do not live near a city with a Fortress Office, we will have actions that can be performed from anywhere in the world.

From SHAC UK:

BDO DROP HLS AFTER ONLY TWO WEEKS, CONTACT NEW FINANCIAL TARGET - FORTRESS

The only reason HLS are open is because of a loan they acquired in 2006. For

three years we have been investigating this loan, whilst HLS has done all they

can to keep the lenders secret. As we revealed in the last action alert, one of

the lenders is Anchor Sub Funding who were set up in Luxembourg by BDO for the

sole purpose of lending HLS $30 million. We can now reveal that BDO were paid

by another company to set up Anchor Sub Funding. Since our last action alert,

BDO have cut all ties with Anchor Sub Funding.

The company behind Anchor Sub Funding is the Fortress Investment Group who are

a global investment company, with offices in several countries. We are calling

on them to cut all ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences and call in the loan with

immediate effect.

For more information about Huntingdon's financials please visit

http://www.shac.net/action/financial/

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SAMPLE LETTER

Dear Sir/Madam

I am writing to you in relation to a $30 million loan that has been made to

Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) via your Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund.

Without this loan HLS could not remain open and therefore Fortress are in large

part responsible for the cruel and violent actions going on inside HLS. The

fact that Fortress have set up a front company in Luxembourg called Anchor Sub

Funding shows that a lot of effort has been put into keeping this loan secret,

presumably to stop HLS' horrific record of cruelty, violence and law breaking

from tarnishing Fortress' reputation.

HLS have a long history of violence; they were most famously exposed in 1997

when channel 4 TV filmed workers punching beagle puppies in the face. In 2005

ex workers spoke out about cruelty they had witnessed and in 2008 Animal

Defenders International went undercover inside HLS exposing cruel primate

experiments and disgusting conditions. HLS also have a track record of law

breaking and manipulation of data. During just one primate study, HLS broke the

law 526 times; and workers have been caught taking drugs and drinking on site.

HLS' financials are in a dire state, and there is a high risk that HLS would

fail to make its loan repayments to you, you may already be aware that they

have failed to meet loan commitments during 2009. This is due to a significant

loss in custom and terrible share price, on top of this many of their

shareholders are filing class action lawsuits against HLS after HLS' board of

directors accepted CEO Andrew Baker's offer to buy out the failing company for

a very low price of $8.50 a share.

Please don't take my word for it, if you want to see the state HLS are in

please read the Plymouth Report which HLS recently filed with the SEC:

www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158833/000115883309000045/exhibit99.htmI am

urging you to explore all get out clauses in this loan and reel it in. I also

urge you to raise these issues with everyone you can within the company and do

everything in your power to halt your support of Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Please raise this issue at any meetings you attend, and let all your colleagues

know about HLS.

For further information, please visit: www.shac.net

Yours faithfully

[YOUR NAME]

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CONTACTS:

Fortress' Board of Directors

Wesley R. Edens

Principal and Co-Chairman of the Board

wedens@fortressinv.com

Daniel H. Mudd

Chief Executive Officer and Director

dmudd@fortressinv.com

Peter L. Briger, Jr.

Principal and Co-Chairman of the Board

pbriger@fortressinv.com

Robert I. Kauffman

Principal and Director

rkauffman@fortressinv.com

Randal A. Nardone

Principal and Director

rnardone@fortressinv.com

Michael E. Novogratz

Principal and Director

mnovogratz@fortressinv.com

Dr. Richard N. Haass

Director

rhaass@fortressinv.com

Daniel N. Bass

Chief Financial Officer

dbass@fortressinv.com

Douglas L. Jacobs

Director

djacobs@fortressinv.com

Howard Rubin

Director

hrubin@fortressinv.com

Takumi Shibata

Director

tshibata@fortressinv.com

George W. Wellde Jr.

Director

gwellde@fortressinv.com

Fortress employees directly involved in the Anchor loan:

Michael Polidoro

mpolidoro@fortress.com

Michael Eggenberg

meggenberg@fortress.com

Scott Silvers

ssilvers@fortress.com

All emails in this alert

wedens@fortressinv.com, dmudd@fortressinv.com, pbriger@fortressinv.com,

pbriger@fortressinv.com, rkauffman@fortressinv.com, rnardone@fortressinv.com,

mnovogratz@fortressinv.com, rhaass@fortressinv.com, dbass@fortressinv.com,

djacobs@fortressinv.com, hrubin@fortressinv.com, tshibata@fortressinv.com,

gwellde@fortressinv.com, mpolidoro@fortress.com, meggenberg@fortress.com,

ssilvers@fortress.com

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Disclaimer and Information:

The details in this action alert are provided for information purposes only,

and should not be used for any illegal activities as defined by the

jurisdiction you live in. SHAC does not support or encourage any form of

harassment; nothing in this alert has the purpose of inciting such behaviour,

and we request that all communications are kept polite.

For general information on the campaign to close Huntingdon Life Science,

please visit our website www.shac.net

Coming events: Mark your calendars now!

HLS Protests will be held weekly and during some time periods daily!

October 2nd: World Farm Animal Day in New York City

October 3rd: ECOFEST - Central Park

October 2nd, 3rd & 4th: HLS Protests Target: Fortress Investment Group

October 11th: NYC VegFest , Tompkins Square Park (tentative)

October 17 -24, 2009: National Primate Liberation Week

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