I remember back in about 2005 there was a huge fire somewhere. There was an arrest made very shortly after that and the news was posted on Free Republic, credited to a news station local to the area of the fire. It was definitely a middle-east sounding name. The article was removed from FR in about 15 minutes and I never heard any more about it. I found that very strange.
I don’t recall, in my nearly 60 years, fires being so frequent and devastating as they are now. I have always thought it was a very easy way for islamists to cause the country severe damage and financial devastation.
There were plenty of threads on that that weren't pulled, and the name was Armenian, which is of course not unusual for California; Armenia being the oldest Christian country on earth.