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In article <C5y36B.8MG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine) writes:
>For me, though, the black soot billowing outside the compound added with
>how fast the fire spread ponted to *someone* dousing large parts of the
>compound with some sort of gasoline or fire-starter. 
	Lots of house fires give off black sooty smoke.  And as far as
	the speed of the fire the winds were gusting to 30mph at least
	that day.  I guess you're forgetting the way Oakland and Berkeley
	looked back in 91.  Did those folks use accelerants?

						smg

	



 I doubt the Feds
>did that as they were more interested in arresting Vernon.  The real
>unbalanced one (at least the one that lost his cool) was Vernon, so
>I figured that he was more likely to do it (after all he was Jesus 
>being persecuted by the authorities, and had followers to hold onto,
>so made the decision.  He and his followers also probably felt that they
>were rocketing to heaven by doing this stuff).  Thsi conclusion, I came
>to after umpteen million hours of listening to NPR and other radio
>shows (I always have the radio going when I am in my office on some
>innocuous talk-show or news program as background noise).
>
>
>-- 
><><><><><><><><><><> Personal opinions? Why,  <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
><>  BRENT IRVINE  <> yes.  What did you think <> irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu  <>
><><><><><><><><><><> they were?.......        <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>


