Have they said what “caused” those fires yet...I haven’t heard....
Probably a diversionary tactic while they carry out something worse.
Not to worry — our new “Commander-in-Retreat” will talk them out of it.....(without pre-conditions!)
I bet the alarmist hope you didn't know about this Fire Mapper site, otherwise you would realize how much of the planet is being burned daily by third worlders trying to clear land.
So now they are trying to take credit for the fires in California and elsewhere? Next we’ll hear they were responsible for Katrina and that tsunami a few years back.
They'll probably coordinate their attacks with the leftist terrorist group, 'Earth Liberation Front' (ELF).
Fight fire with fire: Napalm every possible hiding place for any Al Qiada world wide
Wouldn’t the smoke blot out the sun and cause global cooling?
“Are they targeting expensive homes and big insurance in California?”
I think those are domestic terrorist groups like ELF, ALF, etc. They have been at that for at least a few decades.
Fire balloons or balloon bombs were hot air balloons with one 15 kilogram antipersonnel bomb and two incendiary devices attached. They were launched by Japan during World War II to wreak havoc on American cities, forests and farmlands. They were called the Fu-Go Weapon, supposedly a revenge bomb for the 1942 Doolittle Raids on Tokyo.
Japanese bomb-carrying balloons were 32 feet in diameter and when fully inflated, held about 19,000 cubic feet of hydrogen. Launch sites were located on the east coast of the main Japanese island of Honshu.
Balloon bombs
When General Jimmy Doolittle led his B-25 bombers in a sneak raid over Japan in the spring of 1942, he set into motion a chain of events that would result in one of the more bizarre stories of World War II: the Japanese attempt to attack the continental United States by bomb-carrying balloons, floating across the entire Pacific Ocean.
From the late fall of 1944 through the early spring of 1945, the Japanese launched more than 9,000 of these "fusen bakudan", or fire balloons, of which 300 were found or observed in the US. Some guesswork gives the total number that made the trip at about 1,000. Despite the high hopes of their designers, the balloons were totally ineffective as weapons, and survive in memory only as an ingenious and malevolent curiosity.
Japan released the first of more than 9,000 bomb-bearing balloons Nov. 3, 1944. It's estimated that nearly 1,000 reached North America. They were found in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Michigan and Iowa, as well as Mexico and Canada. The last one was launched in April 1945. The last one found in North American was in Alaska in 1955 - its payload still lethal after 10 years of erosion.
The bombs actually caused little damage, but their potential for destruction and fires was awesome, not to mention their psychological effect on the American people. U.S. strategy was to not let Japan know of the balloon bombs' effectiveness. Cooperating for national security reasons, the press showed great restraint in not publishing balloon bomb incidents. As a result, the Japanese only learned of one bomb reaching Wyoming, landing and failing to explode, so they stopped the launches after less than six months.
I’m a volunteer firefighter with the CFA in Victoria, Australia. This has been one of our worries for the last few years. We’re tinder dry in summer and large scale fires (such as Ash Wednesday in 1983) can put hundreds of lives and tens of thousands of homes at risk.
Not to mention targeting the drug cartels that have their labs in those woods...
Well lets face it, these a**hole lunatics know how to cause chaos. If true, it would cause more damage in bringing down our already troubled economy which is what they are trying to do.
Electrical facilities, forest fires, transportation hubs, water filtration plants, suicide bombings.... there is no end. The stage is, in fact, being set for our nation’s conquering. Financial Industry uprooted, Insurance companies in despair, transportation companies barely surviving after 9-11.... US Government running out of money...
I say ... desperate times call for desperate measures. Can’t we just seal the damn borders and find out who is here!
--hogwash--
Not to minimize this threat which is very significant, but this just proves how effective George W. Bush’s administration has been in keeping the homeland safe, even from something as readily available as a book of matches.
I'd say it's more likely to spark anger than fear. Enough anger to call for wiping them all out.
If al Qaeda were to pursue this it would be out of character for them. They have always favored dramatic terror with simple media appeal—explosions, many dead, all in a few minutes. High drama with a cascade effect to follow. Worldwide forest fires? I dunno.
But they would be burning up all the illegal marijuana crops in the National Forests. See the following link from earlier today
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132234/posts
expected strike date...12/21/12..