Two way radios? Contraband? Is that the latest thing that will get you put on the watch list? How about people who purchase 72 hour emergency kits? Better watch them too.
Be serious. 2 way radios alone are not a problem. But in combination with 3 tons of nitrate..now that should be on any watch list.
They purchased 3 tonnes of sodiam nitrate - that's not a very common thing to purchase - especially when you don't own any facility which has need of such materials.
I think stings are great! They reveal ahead of time what evil is being planned. The INTENT was to blow up a lot of things - with the INTENT of killing a lot of people.
Seems like some people are not very grateful for this evil being removed from accomplishing their goal.
From the other article posted here on FR, it appears they first started their planning in a chat room. I really don't think a two way radio could be considered contraband. I also don't consider most anything included in a 72 hour emergency kit to be contraband. Well, at least nothing I have in my emergency kit. YMMV though.
Well that is, unless your emergency kit contains three tons of ammonium nitrate and a "crude cell phone detonator". Three tons of fertilizer seems to be a bit much for a 72 hour emergency kit. I suppose I could see where a smallish bag of MiracleGro might be something you'd want to toss into your emergency kit because, after all, in an emergency you'd definitely want edible plants to grow as fast as possible.
I haven't determined yet exactly what you'd need a 'crude cell phone detonator' for though. I guess if one was trapped under fallen debris one might want to use the detonator to blast one's way out. Seems a bit radical to me. Would you really need 3 tons of ammonium nitrate though? Wouldn't that be kind of overkill?