CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : OAKLAND : Nails Link Activists to Bomb, Police Say

Two Earth First! activists accused of transporting a bomb that blew up in their car were carrying nails that were identical to those in the explosive, according to the San Francisco Examiner. Police statements filed in Oakland Municipal Court said officers found the sack of nails during a search of the car after the May 24 blast in Oakland, the paper said. The discovery--and an FBI bomb expert’s opinion that the nails matched those taped to the pipe bomb--led police to conclude that environmentalists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were transporting the device, the court documents say. Bari, 40, and Cherney, 33, were injured. Police arrested them, but the district attorney has declined to file charges pending further investigation. Bari and Cherney, organizers of logging protests, say they were the victims of a murder attempt.