Word: arson
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...left without his film evidence because he ran into the police, who ordered him to delete the digital video. Otherwise, they would have to confiscate his camera as potential evidence in an arson investigation. So Gray returned only with the evidence in his head to tell friends what survived and what didn...
...emergency. More controversially, the Prime Minister suggested that sabotage was behind the blazes. "So many fires, breaking out simultaneously in so many places can not be a coincidence," he said in a nationally televised address Saturday. Within days, 79 arrests of "suspicious persons" were made. And on Monday, arson and murder charges were levied against a 65-year-old man for allegedly torching parts of Aereopolis, in the southern Peloponnese, where six people were killed. Among them: a French couple trapped in a flaming ravine during a hike in the wooded area. Their charred bodies were found locked...
...Count Dracula and befriends a tough cop who's secretly gay. Finally he convinces his macho pals in the firehouse, who had turned on him and Larry, that gay ain't so bad. The "gay" firemen's presumed crimes against nature matter less than their membership in the anti-arson brotherhood; camaraderie is the straight version of gay pride...
...Alison Cooper says the authorities are maintaining control in Dili. "The situation is volatile, but the incidents of violence are sporadic and isolated and able to be contained," she says, despite just having a rock smash through the windscreen of her UN car. The UN registered 31 incidents including arson, rock-throwing and roadblocks over a 10-hour period on Monday night, but had no reports of casualties. The worst attack torched the Customs office; a second Customs building was set on fire early Tuesday. On Wednesday Gusmão was sworn in and promised to "dedicate all my energy...
...next morning, his optimism is shattered. Overnight, leaflets are found outside the school. "Warning!" one reads. "Muslim brothers and sisters of Pattani: The Malay people of Pattani are currently at war with the Siamese infidel occupiers. Therefore, we must unite." Without claiming responsibility for the arson attack, the leaflet explains that schools are targeted because they are "symbols of the Siamese infidel occupier." It continues: "This is a warning to our brothers and sisters: do not assist the occupier, or cooperate in terms of labor or goods in kind. To help them with labor, money or goods in kind...