BREAKING NEWS - TWO ARRESTS IN ALABAMA CHURCH FIRE INVESTIGATION, THIRD PERSON WANTED.

CNN ^ | Mar 8, 2006 | News Wire Alert

[commish]

NO story yet, just a blurb on website and TV.

[corkoman]

It looks as if he has comething caught in the chain and the gear sprocket.

I hate it when that happens to me.

[JRochelle]

Could he be an environmental freak? As in ecoterrorists?

[Quilla]

Two Are Arrested in Ala. Church Arsons
Mar 08 10:08 AM US/Eastern


BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

Two young men have been arrested and a third person is being sought in the string of church arsons that destroyed or damaged nine rural churches in Alabama last month, a federal law enforcement official said Wednesday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the formal announcement is to be made later, said the two are being charged with conspiracy and individual counts in the arsons at five Bibb County churches and four in west Alabama.

AP Reporting.

[uglybiker]

The ACLU is already sending down lawyers to defend them, claiming that they were exercising their "free speech rights."

Reminds me of an old headline from The (unlinkable) Onion:

ACLU Defends Neo-Nazis Right to Burn down ACLU Headquarters

[billbears]

Couldn't be. It was explained to me, more than once here, it was probably Muslims that 'hate our way of life'. It was also explained to me that the federal government had to be involved for some nonsensical reason.

Imagine that. The accused within the same state of the crime and not one tie to turrrists....

[JRochelle]

"I'll bet their Amish."

Thats a good guess but their mode of transportation is too slow for a speedy getaway.:)

[r9etb]

I'll bet their Amish.

I bet they're middle-class white teenagers.

[bwteim]

It is a scene from a play
http://www.bsc.edu/communications/photoweek/2005/20051111.htm

[hellinahandcart]

I saw the names on the third Breaking News thread.

Ben Moseley and Russell Debusk .

[null and void]

It looks as if he has comething caught in the chain and the gear sprocket.

Maybe she'll yank his crank?

Yikes! Did I mash 'Post'???

[Mcirrus]

Foxnews gives the names of the two arrested.

The Article from Fox News

[Velveeta]

Two Men Arrested in String of Alabama Church Fires
Police arrested two men Wednesday in connection with a string of rural church fires that plagued Alabama in early February.

Ben Moseley, 19, and Russell Debusk were taken into custody early Wednesday, officials said, and charged with conspiracy and individual counts in the arsons at five Bibb County churches and four in west Alabama.

A third suspect is still being sought.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187183,00.html

[navysealdad]

All three are college students.

[r9etb]

White boys. Gosh -- I, for one am not surprised by this.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.bsc.edu/

[CygnusXI]

"All three are college students."

Suprise, suprise, suprise! [/pyle]

[mewzilla]

LOL. Yup. And it looks like these guys are on the fast track.

[SmithL]

Just a bunch of Anti-Baptists (not to be confused with Anabaptists)

[bwteim]

Two are from BSC, the other is a Roll Tide fan.

[Joe 6-pack]

"If they were white..."

If these had been abortion clinics (aka 'cathedrals of feminism') instead of Christian Churches, you can bet that the national guard would have been activated to protect them and to join in the manhunt and the situation would have featured prominently on the covers of Time/Newsweek.