Fire Update

The papers have no more useful information on the fire at the Executive Mansion, but it really put a damper on people’s holiday. People we’ve talked to say were saddened and scared when they heard about the incident. Some people speculate that since the building is crawling with people who used to work for the Taylor regime, and since the fire started on the biggest holiday of the year, and since there were four visiting heads of state in the building, and since the president’s own office was destroyed, and since the Taylor war crimes trial just started a few days ago, that maybe the fire was started on purpose. We may never know.