It takes
arsonists to really get these sectarian fires blazing, and, "unless they set them and fan them and give them fuel,'' they will more often than not die out.
This fire, which was not started by
arsonists, has burnt almost 230,000 hectares of land, destroyed 550 homes and killed at least 147 people in a wide area from Wandong, north of Melbourne to Marysville and Taggerty.
In particular, he has identified three states--Kansas, Nebraska, and Vermont--which form, he says, the "axis of ignition," guilty of "state-sponsored pyromania." Now, he continues, this axis poses an even greater danger than last year's
arsonists. And the danger could grow worse: "If these state-sponsors could gain access to WMC ("weapons of mass conflagration"), the fires of October 2007 would look, by comparison, like backyard barbeques."
These young
arsonists tend to act impulsively and in an externalizing fashion when confronted with situations that provoke intense reactions, rather than thinking first about the consequences of their behavior.
A giant map, an aerial view of the city, hangs nearby, with tiny flames marking each of the 19 fires linked to the
arsonist. `We start putting the pieces together and ask, `Could it be this person?' '
Back in September 1996, Fareed Zakaria, managing editor of the CFR's flagship journal Foreign Affairs, penned a very revealing essay for Newsweek concerning
arsonist Saddam Hussein.
The fire was reported at 3am after the
arsonist struck in the first-floor lobby of the flats in Hastings, East Sussex.
Last year, the FBI credited an unknown Phoenix
arsonist with causing at least $5 million in damage by torching nine luxury homes bordering the environmentally sensitive Phoenix Mountains Preserve.
In addition, Sas explains, "We're trying to create a way to predict where a fire will be set." By determining a statistical pattern-are most fires started near a settlement, at certain hours, etc.-officials hope to be able to catch the next
arsonist in the act.
Carrie Harper, community councillor for the Queensway area, also the victim of a car
arsonist, said: "It is a mindless act putting lives at risk."
Mr Dark told reporters: "The
arsonist or
arsonists are still at large and we hope that the police will leave no stone unturned in finding those
arsonists.
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arsonist is terrorising a town in the North, police feared yesterday.
