Friday, February 03, 2006

Six Alabama Churches Torched

Arson? Nah--spontaneous combustion. Du-uh!!!

It'll be interesting to discover the link between them. If we're lucky it was atheists. If not, terrorists? Hopefully it's a statement about something. Otherwise, just plain dumb:
Police suspect arson at six Ala. churches: "Fires damaged five rural Alabama churches in a string of suspected arsons late Thursday and early Friday.

The fires were set 'as fast as they could drive from one location to the next,' Bibb County Chief Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Weems said of the cluster of blazes, all near U.S. 82 and Highway 139.

Most of the churches were Baptist and all were in Bibb County, about 25 miles south of Birmingham.
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In 1996, race was a factor in a series of arsons that damaged rural black churches in Alabama and elsewhere. But Ingram said the fires late Thursday and early Friday destroyed both the churches of predominantly black congregations and predominantly white congregations."


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