Arizona Firefighter Deaths

Yeah this is going to sound weird.

Over the period that I was scheduled to be in police custody a heatwave has struck across the the South-Western United States. In Arizona these high temperatures and low humidity combined with a lightning strike to cause a fast moving wild-fire. Yesterday (30/6/13) a 19 member team from the Granite Mountain Hot Shots firefighting crew were trapped by the flames and were all killed. This marks the US' single biggest loss of firefighters lives since the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Obviously since my arrest the US and the UK have been discussing how to proceed. The US are obviously keen for things to continue as before. The UK being the ones who will end up gripping the guardrail at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are obviously less keen. A large part of this discussion has been a series of fires at recycling centres in the UK including one that was started (by a Chinese Lantern apparently - remember them from the para-Olympic closing ceremony) in Smethwick in the West Midlands yesterday.

Therefore it is possible that the US intentionally killed the Arizona firefighters as part of that discussion. The message being that the people who are trying to "firefight" the problems created by my arrest have failed and the US are conceding to the UK's position. However this is entirely inconsistent with all the other messages the US have been putting out today. Therefore I think that God, the weather or just plain dumb luck is actually just trying to force the US into conceding to the UK position. After all wild-fire fighter is probably one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet.

On a related note US President Obama and UK Prime Minister Cameron's separate overseas diplomatic tours are drawing to a close so things should settle down over the coming days. For example in the original script I was meant to be appearing in front of Croydon Magistrates Court at exactly the same time South African lawyers were appearing in Westminster Magistrates Court for Shrein Dewani's extradition hearing.

18:50 on 1/7/13.