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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Fortress Lies; Animals Die!

Campaign relaunch against top HLS lender, Fortress Investments.

Following on from Fortress' statement last week, where they stated an: ..."immediate agreement to fully divest itself from an investment with Huntingdon Life Sciences/Life Sciences Research" Fortress thought they could make a false statement and we would go away. They thought wrong - we always find out liars, and Fortress' own staff have told us what is really going on.

We will now be targeting Fortress as a priority target until they give a real statement and supply proof that they have deinvested in HLS. Also, there has been no filing on the SEC or any other indication that Fortress have actually de-invested in HLS as they stated on 1st October.

We always find out the liars and call for an immediate re-launch of the campaign against Fortress Investment Group. Fortress are helping keep HLS afloat with their blood money loan and in doing so are helping to kill 500 animals every day and then to lie about their dealings as well!

We are calling on activists across the globe to protest at Fortress Investment Group. For details of their office locations, go to: www.shac.net/action/financial/fortress_locations.html

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 (H-L-S) via your Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund. Without this loan H-L-S could not remain open and therefore Fortress are

in large part responsible for the cruel and violent actions going on inside H-L-S. 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 H-L-S' horrific record of cruelty, violence and law breaking from tarnishing Fortress' reputation.

H-L-S 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 H-L-S exposing cruel primate experiments and disgusting conditions. H-L-S also have a track record of law breaking and manipulation of data. During just one primate study, H-L-S broke the law 526 times; and workers have been caught taking drugs and drinking on site.

H-L-S' financials are in a dire state, and there is a high risk that H-L-S 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 H-L-S after H-L-S'

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 H-L-S are in please read the Plymouth_Report which H-L-S recently filed with the SEC: www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158833/000115883309000045/exhibit99.htm

I 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 H-L-S.

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

Peter L. Briger, Jr.

Principal and Co-Chairman of the Board