Posted on 08/11/2006 10:28:49 PM PDT by DannyTN
It really has me worried. These plans are in place. The cell phone deal show how massive it is going to be. When you have middle-Eastern men buy 1,000s of non-tracebable cell phones, you have trouble.
The government better toture the heck out of those guys to get information and the ACLU and the Libs better just shut up about it. There is one massive attack coming, that seems obvious. And it will hit many cities at once.
"One man was driving while the other two were in the back opening the phone packages with box cutters throwing the phones in one box, batteries in another and the packaging and phone charger in another container. The suspects had 1000 other cell phones in the van."
Later on in the article:
"They also told officers they get stopped frequently and say they buy the phones for $20 and sell them elsewhere for $38. They sell them without the packaging or charger."
The two from Dearborn arrested last week were also "reselling" the gutted phones, and they were charged with money laundering. Aside from figuring out what they're doing with the batteries, the other key, obviously, is who is buying the phones, at almost double the price, sans charger and perhaps sans batteries. Most likely the same person(s) who fronted these guys the money to buy the phones.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1682087/posts?page=176#176
Looking at the map of where the busts have been, it looks like if you live in Pittsburgh, Detroit, or Minneapolis/St. Paul, you may have extra cause for alarm. Looks like a cluster of them around those areas.
Not so much explosive components but detonation devices.
You use two of them, one is rigged to the bomb and then you use the second one to call it, this triggers the detonator and sets the bomb off. You can also rig the alarm on one phone, which is with the bomb, to set the detonator off.
Hopefully, it is just something relatively mild, like communitcations.
That would trip a Meth Watch flag. More Lithium in the cell phone batteries, too.
They didn't buy 1000 at once, they traveled over several states to purchase these phones. Hence the map they had of the location of Wal-Marts over a large part of the US.
I understand that. But, at least since Jan 06 the Feds have been watching this.
One person bought 150 at a Target at one time. Kinda stupid.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1499905
They can't shut them off unless they shut down on the relay stations(cells)that are used to send the calls out across the country. Trac phones are untraceable, the numbers are known only to the person who buys and registers it with the cell phone company that sold it. There is no way the FBI or any other agency can call these numbers and set any bombs off prematurely as has been suggested on this thread. Many people have a poor concept of what a trac phone is and how it is used.
It is NOT a one time use phone, the batteries are rechargable, the minutes are renewable and they can be used for communication freely because they can't be traced as a regular cell phone on monthly plan can.
Terrorists use them that way and they use them to set off bombs, it is a typical method for setting off the IDs used in Iraq for instance.
Hey, these are just terrorist guest workers buying cell phones Americans won't buy, so they can commit crimes even Mexicans won't commit...
Dollar General is cheap but it's not like "everything's a dollar". They do have some higher priced merchandise.
Most stores won't sell more than 2 or 3 to a customer, it is hard to believe that target will sell hundreds of them to one customer. The limit is the reason the 3 guys caught in Dallas were driving from Wal mart to Wal mart to buy them. They would each buy the set limit from each store.
(Ithaca is the city of evil.) CNN's newsticker this am: cops in Michigan arrested the three Middle Eastern men they caught the other day with dozens of cell phones, lots of cash and airline schedules and info. Strong hint that they're part of terror. According to the cops, they had cover stories -- preposterous cover stories, but they aren't rocket scientists -- were cooperative, yada yada yada. Straight out of bin Laden's terror play book, which CNN was talking about on Anderson Cooper's show last night.
This was Ithaca Michigan.
So wanna guess how long till Bush gives an order to spy on every single tracphone in the country.
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