With no new evidence, Fox continues to ask: Did al Qaeda burn California?
ANOTHER FOX "NEWS" (Zionist Rupert Murdoch) CRAP PIECE:
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With no new evidence, Fox continues to ask: Did al Qaeda burn California?
David Edwards and Nick Juliano
Published: Thursday October 25, 2007
For the second straight day, Fox News stood virtually alone in advancing thinly supported speculation to raise fears that the wildfires ravaging California are not the result of a confluence of arid heat and high winds but were set deliberately by al Qaeda terrorists bent on destroying America.
Fox & Friends, the conservative cable channel, was panned Wednesday for breathlessly reporting a sketchy, four-year-old FBI memo as if it offered new information linking America's enemies in the "Global War on Terror" with a plot to burn down southern California.
The morning team was back at it Thursday, as anchor Alisyn Camerota introduced a segment on the fires that again mischaracterized and over-inflated warnings from a 2003 interview with an al Qaeda detainee.
Camerota said Fox's fear-mongering was "based on some information the FBI sent to local law enforcement in California and other Western states ... that there was a plot afoot to set three or four different" fires. Left unsaid by the Fox news-reader was that the FBI warning was sent more than four years ago, described a potential plot that made no mention of California, could not be proven accurate and did not raise alarms from forrest-fire officials at the time. (Such caveats all were included in an Associated Press report on the warning at the time.)
"How do they determine what's arson and what's terrorism?" she asked, noting accurately that authorities believe arsonists were responsible for at least "some of these fires." (Authorities say arson has been shown to have caused only two of more than a dozen fires so far.)
Terror analyst Erick Stakelbeck served as Camerota's foil in boosting the terror fears. Although he did clarify that the FBI memo was from 2003, the vintage of the intelligence didn't squelch his terror speculation; Stakelbeck warned that the fires appeared to be the result of a "coordinated effort ... over a large area."
"In a post-9/11 world, we have to consider all possibilities," Stakelbeck intoned.
Even if al Qaeda isn't involved -- and no one but Fox seems to be seriously suggesting they were -- the fires are still an example of "domestic terrorism," Stakelbeck said, although he was sure to note that law enforcement would be checking to see if arson suspects in custody fit the "terrorist profile."
Whoever is responsible for the fires, Stakelbeck couldn't help but note the ease with which such devastation can be wreaked with just some matches, kerosene and dry brush:
"What a cost-effective means of terrorism," he marveled.
The following video is from Fox's Fox & Friends, broadcast on October 25, 2007.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Fox_hypes_Qaeda_plotted_fires_theory_1025....
There was no doubt some random arson, but it would have been a thousand times worse had an organized force been unleashed to burn the area.
No doubt FOX news wants some Al CIAda false flag group to take up the hint and repeat the arsons the next time the Santa Anna's blow.
Can you imagine the draconian surveillance and search violations that will be authorized if they are able to set up a false flag arson arrest?
And that is what arson is for some: Either a way to give that inner fire bug a hit or to collect some money on a building.
In previous set fires, a lot of the arsonists that have been caught were firefighters, wishing to bask in the glow of being the first one to report the fire or collect some money from a over tapped home owner.
Or, to rent out firefighting equipment, like water tankers, to the fire crews.
Water tankers can go for as much as 1,000 dollars per day.
What about asking some serious questions, FOX?
Like how many of the homes burnt were behind in payments or in default?
Were any local banks having trouble staying afloat, due to having issued too many sub-prime loans?
Or is it what one local resident said, that the some of the fires originated in places where illegal immigrants live in tents and make fires for heat and cooking?
Or would asking serious questions impact on what passes for integrity at FOX?
Great point Greg. How many of those trophy homes were looking at ARM payment hikes and decreased appraisal values. What better time to take a profit than during the recurring Santa Anna winds.
The old formula for profit in hard times - INSURE it to the max and BURN it to the ground!
...at least they can use some of the aerial video clips in their next global warming promotional videos.
The rich burning their spare house down to get more insurance money? Could be true.
Although I don't think insurance companies are that stupid. They could have corrupt leadership which could personally benefit from this, although it would be bad for the company.
is a very plausible theory - at least for some of the fires.
thanks, Greg for bringing it up.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
We had this figured out in the above comments before Die Welt did.