Letters to the Editor
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What I want to know is
where were the law enforcement personnel during the last two years?
If the FBI said Al Qaeda were planning on setting fires, I would think they would have been looking for them.
"From USA Today in July of 2003:
al-Qaeda Detainee Spoke of Fire Plot
The FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States. Rose Davis, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, told The Associated Press that officials there took note of the warning but didn’t see a need to act further on it.
The contents of the June 25 memo from the FBI’s Denver office were reported Friday by The Arizona Republic. Davis declined to share a copy of the memo and an FBI spokeswoman in Denver didn’t immediately return a telephone call. As we have stated before. If you see anything suspicious, report it to law enforcement immediately."
I realize California is a large state and this warning came ou in 2003, but they should have been on the lookout for this particularly in the season for fires!