I have thought this for a long time.
Never before, at least in my memory, have there been such a huge and devastating number of fires.
Back about 7 or 8 years ago, I remember reading on FR that an arrest had been made of someone suspected of starting a fire. The article was only up for about a half hour and it disappeared. It was a middle-eastern name. It was weird.
all middle eastern names are weird. Maybe, that is their problem.... hmmm, maybe that is the problem with America’s black culture and all the impossible to pronounce and spell weird names like femala and itsaboya, etc.
noted that in spring 2012, al-Qaeda’s English-language online magazine, Inspire, published an article called “It Is of Your Freedom to Ignite a Firebomb,” which featured instructions on how to build an incendiary bomb to light forests on fire.
A few months later, Russia’s security (FSB) chief, Aleksandr Bortnikov warned, ”al-Qaeda was complicit in recent forest fires in Europe” as part of the terrorists’ “strategy of a thousand cuts.”
Bortnikov spoke of “extremist sites [that] contained detailed instructions of waging the ‘forest jihad’ and stressed that such a method had proved itself effective as it inflicted both physical and moral damage, needed little training or investment and it was extremely hard for police to find and apprehend the arsonists.”
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/06/fire-jihad-forest-fires-in-america.html
this is only the most recent report of the jihadist Stated if not realized Intentions.
Im thinking I read something simiar at least half a dozen years ago.
jihadists-claim-credit-for-arizona-fires
http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/jihadists-claim-credit-for-arizona-fires/
I’m still searching for their earlier threats to set off such blazes.
Not true. This year is not significantly worse than others over the last decade or more. "Since 2000, there has been a dramatic spike, not just in the acreage burned — more than 7 million acres every year on average — but in the size of wildland fires and their duration. In 2002 alone, Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon had huge fires that set modern records, with the Hayman, Rodeo-Chediski, and Biscuit fires burning 138,000, 467,000, and nearly 500,000 acres, respectively." Source
The problem is forest structure due to a policy of mandated neglect.