FBI: al-Qaeda detainee spoke of fire plot

[Roon]

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.

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.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-07-11-alqaeda-fire_x.htm

[DBoon]

1. So have they found a way to blame gays for the fires?

Illegal immigrants? Feminists?

Persoanlly I think the fires were spread by all those right wing scapegoats fleeing into the wilderness

[spanone]

2. dear fbi, god is in charge of the lightening and wind, not al qaeda

soon we'll have to show our passports to buy matches

[marmar]

3. PRAVDA is working overtime these days....

:eyes:

[Bluerthanblue]

4. this is just ludicrous-

SNL couldn't make this shit up.

[malaise]

6. Al Qaeda also caused every tornado and hurricane

since 9/11.

[aquart]

13. Well, they don't want to divert funds to climate change.

So it's all caused by clever terrorists.

[malaise]

5. Rose must work for the insurance companies

since acts of war aren't covered.

[Horse with no Name]

10. Sadly you win the prize

They didn't pay for Katrina and they certainly aren't going to pay for this. Now here is their excuse.

[truebrit71]

7. Amazing what these guys will come up with whilst being tortured...

...maybe the turr-ists will confess to an earthquake plot 'somewhere' in CA at some point in the future? :eyes:

Yeah, no REGULAR arsonist or fire-bug would set a fire would they....???

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Ahhh Ahhhh Ahhhh Ahhhhchoobullshit

Gezundheit.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. ...

:spray: Sorry, couldn't help myself.

[aquart]

11. Define "plan."

[MikeNearMcChord]

12. I wonder if Al-Qaeda is also responsible

for the collapse of the Cleveland Indians in the ALCS?

[billyoc]

14. And where the hell did they hide my other shoe?!

:rofl:

[Lurking Dem]

15. You just can't make this shit up.

How does anybody in their right mind fall for this crap?