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Officials: Major California Wildfire Declared Arson

Fox News: SAN DIEGO — A major wildfire that has scorched thousands of acres and destroyed hundreds of homes in Southern California has been declared an arson, according to Orange County law enforcement and FBI officials said on Wednesday.

Officials said that there is a $70,000 reward for information leading to an arrest for those responsible for the Santiago fire in the rugged eastern part of the county. continued

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FBI: al-Qaeda detainee spoke of fire plot

USATODAY.com - : "PHOENIX (AP) — The FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States. Rose Davis, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, told The Associated Press that officials there took note of the warning but didn't see a need to act further on it."

That sounds familiar doesn't it? (pre September 11 thinking continues in Washington)

The contents of the June 25 memo from the FBI's Denver office were reported Friday by The Arizona Republic. Davis declined to share a copy of the memo and an FBI spokeswoman in Denver didn't immediately return a telephone call.

The Republic reported that the detainee, who was not identified, said the plan involved three or four people setting wildfires using timed devices in Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming that would detonate in forests and grasslands after the operatives had left the country.

The memo noted that investigators couldn't determine whether the detainee was telling the truth.

The newspaper said many forest law enforcement officers it contacted had no idea the warning had been issued.

Doh!

I thought about this type plot as I'm sure many others have quite a while ago, and after seeing these fires out west this week begin so earnestly, the thought entered my mind that these particular fires might have been set in this way. No matter what, any forest fires being set in that fashion (by terrorists) is something very hard if not impossible to combat.

I'm not convinced that these fires were not intentional and would like to think they are , but it might be dangerous not to look at the possibility they are being set by terrorists from time to time. It sure isn't that hard to do and easy to get away with it seems.

Unless we are somehow able to one day account for every single person inside the country at all times this risk remains out there, particularly the ones that might have a propensity to act on such an act of violence like these fires or any other (like keeping our eyes on all middle eastern males not born in the US between the ages of 18 and 50 for starters) which of coarse we sure can't right now, and may never be able to do, thanks to those of us out there that would rather have terrorists freely walking undetected amongst us in the name of privacy and political correctness run amuck.

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