Arson Destroys 12 New Md. Homes (washingtonpost.com)
A dozen empty houses in a new Maryland subdivision that is the focus of a long-running environmental dispute were destroyed and numerous others were damaged yesterday in what officials said were more than 20 coordinated, methodically planned arsons.

No one was hurt, but the attack left the Hunters Brooke subdivision, near Indian Head in Charles County, scarred with blackened, gutted houses, and it terrified the quiet community near the Potomac River about 25 miles downstream from the District.
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This has been happening out west, in the San Diego and LA areas, for some time. It's a new front in the old wars over development. Most people go to the village council meeting and complain. They win or lose, and if they lose they stay or move. These folks, however, flick their Bics. The issue is whether the second Bush administration will treat them as the domestic terrorists they really are, or whether it will ignore them as Clinton I and II and Bush I did. Do they have bigger fish to fry? That's what they said about Al Qaida in 1995.