No one will doubt what happened if five mega-fires each over 100 miles long start in five states on one day. It will be obvious that they were all started in lines from a car or light plane. Anyone who posits 500 orderly lightning strikes will be laughed off as a fool.
Immediate casualty numbers are not the only game in town. Proving Uncle Sam's impotence as these mega fires rage unchecked for weeks will also be quite pleasant for the jihadists to behold.
"Immediate casualty numbers are not the only game in town. Proving Uncle Sam's impotence as these mega fires rage unchecked for weeks will also be quite pleasant for the jihadists to behold."
Possible, but if they can't cause a loss of life, they will lose face.
It would show that we are beating them so badly that they are only able to make demonstration gestures back at us.
Yes, they can start forest fires. Those fires are unlikely to kill many Americans, however, and they won't be as large as last year's fires simply because we've built new logging roads as firebreaks over the last 12 months.
Frankly, what we've seen them attempt so far with Ricin in the failed London attack, Sarin and Mustard in the roadside bombs in Iraq, and VX in the failed Jordanian attack, points to a trend that shouldn't be overlooked: a poison attack.