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===Government response=== {{Expand section|reason= The government of the day responded to the 1997 investigative work, and additional responses were made before 2006|date=August 2012}} From 2006, ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' reports, the British Government took the decision to tackle "the problem of animal rights extremism."<ref name="CassTelegraph"/> On 1 May 2007, a police campaign called ''Operation Achilles'' was enacted against SHAC, a series of raids involving 700 police officers in England, Amsterdam, and Belgium.<ref name=spiegel>[http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,517875-2,00.html "Britain's other war on terror"], Spiegel online, 19 November 2007</ref> In total, 32 people linked to the group were arrested,<ref>[http://www.netcu.org.uk/media/article.jsp?id=249 "Animal rights extremism β police arrest 32 people"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927074535/http://www.netcu.org.uk/media/article.jsp?id=249 |date=27 September 2007 }}, National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit press release, 1 May 2007.</ref> and seven leading members of SHAC, including [[Greg Avery]], were found guilty of blackmail.<ref>[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/92cf1796-93d2-11dd-b277-0000779fd18c.html "Activists in live testing trial deny blackmail"], ''[[Financial Times]]'' 6 October 2008.</ref> Police estimated in 2007 that, as a consequence of the operation, "up to three quarters of the most violent activists" were jailed. ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' writes that the number of attacks on HLS and their business declined drastically but "the movement is by no means dead."<ref name=spiegel/>
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