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Are terrorists responsible for massive wildfires?
A wildfire in Colorado has sent 32,000 people fleeing for their lives and some are wondering if terrorists are to blame.
Back in May 2012, al Qaeda recommended that followers start “fire bombs” in the U.S. as a way to wreak havoc on their enemies.
While the men who wrote the articles may have died in U.S. missile strikes last year, their ideas continue to live on. Their articles covered how to detailed advice on how to create huge forest fires with times explosives and how to build remote-controlled bombs.
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“Issue nine carries equally lethal advice, with “It Is of Your Freedom to Ignite a Firebomb,” which gives detailed instructions on how to ignite an “ember bomb” in a U.S. forest, recommending Montana because of the rapid population growth in wooded areas.
“In America, there are more houses built in the [countryside] than in the cities,” says the writer, who uses the pseudonym The AQ Chef. “It is difficult to choose a better place [than] in the valleys of Montana.”
Issue eight has an eight-page article on how to construct remote-controlled explosives, with a laundry list of parts and ingredients and photos showing proper assembly.“ (Read the ABC News article.)
At least 60 homes burned down yesterday as part of a 15,000 acre fire in Montana yesterday.
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A number of other wildfires have affected other parts of the Western U.S.. There are fires in Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and more.
In fact, yesterday, 32,000 people have been evacuated from the Colorado Springs, Colo., area as a fire threatened the city and parts of the Air Force Academy.
“We expect further trouble from the weather today,” incident commander Rich Harvey said at a press briefing. “We do expect all of our lines to be challenged today.”
Colorado Springs Fire Chief Rich Brown called the fire a “monster event” and announced that the fire is “not even remotely close to being contained.” The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
Among the evacuees were cadets and staff at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
In other parts of the West:
- In Utah, a woman was found dead after a blaze on Tuesday that consumed at least 24 homes. The fire is 15 percent contained and has consumed 600 square miles.
- In Wyoming, the Bridger-Teton National Forest wildfire grew from 300 acres to 2,000 acres Tuesday.
- In New Mexico, a fire burned nearly 70 square miles west of Ruidoso was 90 percent contained.
I live in AZ. My family and I are directly affected by the AZ fires near the MX border. Last year we ran for 2 weeks with our large & small animals. This year we have already been in pre-evac mode. These fires are so devastaing and consuming. I feel for those people now. I look at the photos and I can feel the dry, suffocating smoke. I feel the film on the skin from the smoke & ash. The fires that are affect me are the ones started by the illegal drug/human trafficking. So, I cannot even put to words how upsetting it is for us in AZ to have the current political shenanignas to continue to abandon us down here. I do not understand it. It is upsetting. We are screaming for help and no one is sending us a lifeline.
June 27th, 2012 at 8:58 pmThis just fuels my flames about the direction this country is going. Sometimes I feel they are covering for these guys. Great article. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
June 28th, 2012 at 2:58 amDina Rae
The muslims are doing this very thing in Israel right now. The Jews have reforested native plants and trees all over Israel and the muslims have found it easy to try to burn them down. They know only destruction so although our government will never admit it, I suspect muslims here will at least take advantage of the potential.
June 28th, 2012 at 4:43 amI read a patriot fiction story of which the name escapes me, that this scenario took place. Jihadist loaded up on fireworks and flares, anything that had a maintained flame or lots of sparks. They then drove through different states setting them off while driving through back roads.
Them setting fires is much easier than crashing planes, blowing up bridges or almost anything else. With just a few men and a few thousand dollars, they could do a significant amount of damage.
June 28th, 2012 at 2:12 pmWithout solid evidence of the cause of the fires, printing a story like this seems extremely irresponsible. For one, terrorists really like to claim responsibility for their actions. For two, wildfires happen all the time. To suggest something like this would have a lot of people panicking over every single brush fire, and questioning the origins of past wildfires, such as those of Northern California two years ago (one year before the issued ‘instructions’ for manually initiated fires). For three, there are far less Muslim ‘extremists’ in the United States than in the Middle East.
Isn’t one of the ‘tenets’ of the al-Qaeda to ‘bring [divine] punishment’ to our allies? Why haven’t similar fires appeared in Canada (forests span the whole of the country, lengthwise, and the weather would make the efforts of fighting a large fire particularly difficult)? For that matter, why haven’t Alaskan oil lines been attacked?
In all likelihood, this fire was caused by an irresponsible camper(s), who, by now, would be much too ashamed to bring him or herself to national attention by admitting responsibility for the fire.
June 29th, 2012 at 11:26 amMany years ago, not very long after 9/11, terrorists advocated setting forest fires to drain the American economy, cause havoc and possibly kill people. Military magazine carried an article about it. This is not a new concept, as the Japanese attempted to use this concept by sending fire bomb balloons across the Pacific. Only now, it can work.
June 29th, 2012 at 3:47 pmYes, this article was extemely irresponsible as there is not evidence of the premise, and will only bring out the “haters” and the paranoid, evidenced by the term “Muslims” used in a comment, rather than terrorists. True muslims are as peaceful as Christians, and should be respected as true Christians should.
July 1st, 2012 at 8:14 pmI don’t think the article is irresponsible. First of all the title states a question. “Could Terrorists Be Responsible”? The article is not stating this as a fact. However, this presents an idea that might very well be true. We all need to understand that everyone should be alert for things that look suspect. The days of living in a fog and not being aware of what could happen are long gone.
July 2nd, 2012 at 2:13 pmThere have been over 20 fires intentionally set in southern Colorado which has been reported on by every news organization. Whether is foreign terrorists or locals doesn’t really matter at this point except for the fact that we need to be listening to intelligence information and taking it seriously. It once again shows how vulnerable we are. It’s not time for panicking rather for preparing. The article is not irrisponsible it is informative. Be prepared, the boyscouts are.I am not advocating hating anyone, but you should read the Koran and then make an informed decision.
July 2nd, 2012 at 2:48 pm