The Americans are ready to fight back "with all guns blazing," one irate Idaho producer said yesterday. "They have killed the market," said Dick Bennett, chairman of Bennett Forest Industries in Idaho.

"The facts are horrific," said Judge David McCombs of the frenzied knife attack that killed Johnathon Robert Madden on Nov. 25, 2003. Johnathon's older brother Kevin Madden, now 19, and Timothy Ferriman, 18, received jail sentences.

"We've hit at the heart of the group," Ontario Provincial Police Det. Supt. Don Bell told a news conference yesterday.