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Terror Fires

It's looking more and more like the California fires were no accident- bq. Law enforcement officials now suspect several of the California wildfires that have killed 18, consumed more than 718,000 acres and destroyed more than 2,400 homes in 10 days were deliberately set – increasing speculation there is a terror connection to the blazes. bq. One man has been arrested so far -- Dikran Armouchian, 23, of Pasadena. bq. Damage estimates exceed $2 billion, but that figure is expected to rise substantially as an inventory of firefighting costs and lost property is completed. If this is true, we are well and truly in it. It looks like similar fires last summer in Europe were deliberately set, too. RTWT here. Posted by maestro at October 31, 2003 11:36 AM | TrackBack