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Invite a friendThis morning on Fox News, hosts of the show Fox and Friends blamed the wildfires in California on a new culprit: al Qaeda. They pointed to a 2003 FBI memo, which raised the possibility that al Qaeda may try to set wildfires around the western United States. They also noted that men in a hovering helicopter saw a guy starting one of these fires.Later Wednesday, Fox anchors returned to fanning the terror fears, digging up a four-year-old FBI memo and presenting it as new information relating to an al Qaeda link to the fires.In June of 2003, FBI agents in Denver detailed an al Qaeda detainee’s discussion of a plot to set forest fires around the western United States, although investigators couldn’t determine whether the detainee was telling the truth, and his plot did not include setting fires in California.Such small discrepancies in dates and details proved to be no obstacles for Fox anchors, who reported that the memo was from “late June of this year” and “is just popping up this morning.”
