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   From: daily.negro@gazette.com   
      
   Arson caused by race-baiting American mass media.   
      
   A string of churches with predominantly black congregations –   
   from Florida to Tennessee -- has reported fires in the past   
   week, officials say.   
      
   The circumstances surrounding the six fires in five states   
   differ in each case, but their occurring in the past eight days   
   has prompted closer scrutiny.   
      
   So far only two of the six cases are being investigated as   
   arson, and federal authorities have not launched any official   
   hate crime investigations.   
      
   Arson was a notable problem for black churches in the mid-1990s   
   and prompted then-President Bill Clinton to push for the   
   creation of the Church Arson Prevention Act in 1996, though a   
   related U.S. Department of Justice task force was suspended at   
   the end of his second term.   
      
   This week's fires come amid a tense time in some Southern cities   
   after a shooting by an alleged racist at a historic black church   
   in Charleston, South Carolina, left nine dead. The result has   
   been a push for the removal of the Confederate flag from several   
   state Capitols amid reignited debates over the region's racial   
   history.   
      
   A senior official from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,   
   Firearms and Explosives said they have special agents, certified   
   fire investigators, looking into the different fires.   
      
   "At this time, ATF has not determined the fires are related. We   
   are still determining origin and cause so we cannot say all are   
   arson," the official told ABC News.   
      
   The ATF is also reportedly checking the fires against its Bomb   
   Arson Tracking System to see whether there are any commonalities   
   among the fires.   
      
   http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=32102943   
      
        
      
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