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28.10.03, 18:26
www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-07-11-alqaeda-fire_x.htm
FBI: al-Qaeda detainee spoke of fire plot
PHOENIX (AP) — 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.
The Republic reported that the detainee, who was not identified,
said the plan
involved three or four people setting wildfires using timed
devices in
Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming that would detonate in
forests and
grasslands after the operatives had left the country.
The memo noted that investigators couldn't determine whether the
detainee was
telling the truth.
The newspaper said many forest law enforcement officers it
contacted had no
idea the warning had been issued.
