[quote]By Caryle Murphy and Del Quentin Wilber, Washington Post | November 16, 2004

WASHINGTON -- A Falls Church, Va., man who worked as a federal informant on terrorism set himself on fire in front of the White House yesterday, hours after announcing his suicide attempt and citing his growing despondency over how the FBI managed his case.

Mohamed Alanssi, 52, approached the northwest guardhouse at 2:05 p.m. and asked security to deliver a note to President Bush. When Secret Service officers turned him away, he stepped about 15 feet away and used a lighter to ignite his jacket, according to US Park Police.

Officers doused the flames with fire extinguishers. He was taken to Washington Hospital Center, where he was listed in critical condition.[/quote]

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This is so sad. :cry:

This event reminds me of the man who set fire to himself outside the Pentagon back in the 60's during Johnson's term...I suppose it was in protest of the Vietnam War.....or was that scene just fiction? it was shown in the movie..."Path to War." :shock:

No Andrew, that was real. I believe he had a kid with him that he sat beside him while he did it.

I believe it was during the Kennedy administration though...

actualy if the movie is correct, it was after Kennedy was killed....it showed Mcnamara standing looking out of the window as the man set his baby daughter down and dowsed himself with Gasoline and lit himself...it was long after Kennedy....the troop loss was starting to mount, and the Johnson administration begain spirowling out of control.