Arson jihad then and now.
2017, 2012, 2007, 2003, 1990’s?
https://barenakedislam.com/2017/10/16/is-it-wildfire-jihad-officials-in-portugal-and-spain-are-calling-the-massive-wildfires-an-act-of-terrorism/
In July 2012, William Scott, a former National Security Agency official and Aviation Week editor, told the American Center for Democracy that terrorists are using fire as a tactical weapon of war. “Perhaps the most simple form of economic warfare is wild land arson,” Scott said. “That’s just setting fires in U.S. forests [and] grasslands.”
“For any terrorists that are determined to inflict significant damage with very little investment or risk, fire is an extremely high-leverage weapon of mass effect.”
Scott explained that after U.S. Navy SEALs killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, they “captured a treasure trove of material that provided some unprecedented insight into the al-Qaeda plans. And one of those was a detailed campaign for starting fires throughout the [American] West.”
“U.S. officials have pretty much determined that some of the fires that burned in California and Colorado were ignited by al-Qaeda operatives,” Scott said.
Anons remember the arson jihad of 2007?
Funny, same interests behind it then and now, in many of the same places too.
https://www.wnd.com/2007/10/44266/
(well, and greece, italy, france, israel, etc.)
How about 2003?
https://www.wnd.com/2004/04/24086/
New al-Qaida plot to burn U.S. forests
By WND Staff
Published April 8, 2004 at 1:00am
An Arabic-language jihadi website posted a message purporting to be "al-Qaida’s plan of economic attack" on the U.S. that included setting forest fires, according to the Northeast Intelligence Network.
The six-point plan appeared Saturday and called for:
attacks on the assets of large American companies all over the world; [2020 comment: shutdown = mission accomplished]
attacks on U.S. oil refineries; [2020 comment: shutdown effect on US energy companies?]
attacks on civilian airports with the goal of financially devastating U.S. airlines; [2020 comment: shutdown = mission accomplished]
deliberate pollution of food system; [2020 comment: remember china’s “covid is in food” scare?]
setting of fires in the forests – "especially those that provide the American market with the raw materials for the wood and paper and byproducts industries"; [2020 comment: CA OR wildfires = mission accomplished]
attacks like those on the railway transportation lines in Spain; [2020 comment: replace railways with highways = mission accomplished]
A quick search didn’t get any results for arson jihad in the late 1990’s, especially in and around california, but I believe this was when it started.