From Eric Dondero:

BATF and local authorities in Texas have just released photos of three "persons of interest" in the string of 11 now fires that have been set to Central and East Texas Christian churches.

From Christian Telegraph:

Two more Baptist churches, less than two miles apart, burned Monday night, making a total of 11 East Texas churches damaged or destroyed by fire since the New Year and seven confirmed as arsons, authorities say...

[Tom] Crowley, based in the ATF's Dallas office, said the latest fires are possibly associated with a string of church blazes set since Jan. 1. There have been seven confirmed arsons -- three in Athens, two in Tyler, one in Lindale, and one in Wills Point. Each of the fires was started from inside the churches... An arsonist's attack on a church in the central Texas city of Temple [Photo - near Austin] is being investigated as well...

The Dallas Morning News reports:

Sketches of three "people of interest" in the string of East Texas church fires were released by federal authorities Friday morning.

Information about the three men, whom officials are hoping the public will help identify, has been developed over the last two weeks, said Tom Crowley, public information officer for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The pictures show one man with short hair and a flamelike tattoo on his neck, another short-haired man with a cross on his left forearm, and a third man with longer hair.

Meanwhile, another high profile chuch targetted by arsonists immediately after the 2008 presidential election, remains un-resolved, and now largely ignored.

Josh Painter at Texas for Sarah Palin blog reminds us that after one full year, the case of the arson at Sarah Palin's church in Wasilla, still remains outstanding.

Wasilla Bible Church Arson Still A Cold Case

It's been well over a year since the church Sarah Palin and her family attend in Wasilla, Alaska was torched, and not only has the crime not been solved, but investigators appear to have few, if any, good leads. And there's been precious little outrage on the Left over this unpunished hate crime.

Retired journalism professor Susan Eovaldi calls the mainstream media "indifferent" on the story in The Collins Report:

The heinous fire crime at the Christian Bible Church languishes in the cold case file.

Wasilla PD investigator Ruth Josten didn’t return several calls. Last January the Collins Report posted an exclusive interview with WBC elder Tom Ryan that exposed many horrible facts still being ignored. The Report’s editor, a retired NYPD officer determined early on this crime was much more than simple arson, but instead was a six count attempted murder 1, apparently committed by an outside hired assassin.

These facts are still being ignored: 1. wires for phones, fire alarms, and water systems were slashed from INSIDE the building, near the control room 2. fire accelerant was spread across each church exit to prohibit escape of the five women and one teen girl trapped inside.

(Photo h/t Ironic Surrealism blog)