These cold-blooded savages were not cowardly, pathetic, pyromaniacs, but malicious, hired arsonists who had met to plot their carnage; fires were set in the three governates simultaneously, to maximize the carnage, the chaos.
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This reminds me of the arsonists who burn the forests in California every time the Santanas are blowing and tried to burn the Smoky Mountains in 2016. I believe that a large minority of them are paid to destroy people's homes and lives.