Two Men Try To Buy Multiple Cell Phones In Ithaca

wnem tv5 ^ | Aug 11, 2006 04:18 PM CDT | WNEM TV5

[DannyTN]

(TV5) -- While FBI agents pour into Caro another incident breaks out in Gratiot County. At approximately 11:35am August 11th police were called to the Dollar General Store in Ithaca after a" clerk in Ithaca became suspicious after two men came into the store, and became upset when they were turned down while trying to buy several disposal cell phones.

TV5's Mike Terry spoke with the clerk who called police. She said they were two "Middle Eastern" men and said they've been coming into the store weekly and buying disposable cell phones. She said the same thing was happening at the dollar general store in Alma.

You might think the clerk became suspicious because of what was going on in Caro but when we asked the clerk she said she wasn't even aware of what was going on.

The policy at their store is that they can only sell two cell phones, per person, per day. She saw the men put the phones in the trunk of the car and when she thought they were coming back in, she called 9-1-1.

We did talk to Ithaca police while there has been no crime committed-they do want to find these men, and run their names against government watch lists.

[Mogollon]

August 22nd is a big deal for the raghead religion. They're probably getting ready to kill some people on that day to celebrate.

[DannyTN]

"LOL! Also to tell us, "no sign of terrorism"."

How could I forget that! LOL

[nopardons]

I have no idea at all.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[BigSkyFreeper]

Me neither, but the technology and know-how is more than likely posted on some jihadist website somewhere.

[Born in a Rage]

You know, this is really disturbing. I heard on the news today that a couple of people bought 25 disposable cell phones here in New Hampshire too. The police are investigating. Why are all of these people suddenly buying multiple cell phones today? We have a nuke plant near NH, that has always been our greatest terrorist threat. Is there one near Ithaca? I'll google it, but if anybody knows please post. I'll try to find an article tomorrow about the cell phones that were sold here.

[Cementjungle]

So we need two cell phones per bomb.

You only need one per bomb, and one to call one or more bombs. You could call a hundred bombs from the same phone.

[RFC_Gal]

Any of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&SubCategory=35&N=2030300035 will work. You can get longer lifetime by adding extra batteris or replacing them when higher density cells.

It also has the advantage of being programmable and can do challange/response to prevent accident activation.

[Chena]

But why won't just one do? It seems they need many with which to build a new one that is something rather special.

One may do if they only want one explosion. If they want to attack multiple places (not necessarily connected to each other), even into the hundreds, if not thousands, they needs LOTS of detenators.

[danamco]

Electricity. I believe they act as the detonator for the explosive itself.

Call your buddy's phone and BLAMMO!

Probably the same reason you are NOT allowed to use cell phones when filling gas in you car, likewise NOT smoking!??!

[stlnative]

you have FR mail

[Born in a Rage]

It seems like there is a nuke something or other in Ithaca and there is another in Princeton, NJ. They are all around us...

[WFTR]

Thanks!

[BamaGirl]

Homeland Security should call all the numbers of cell phones that have been sold under suspicious circumstances, and see which Mosques blow up.

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LOL! Very clever! :)

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

..If they want to attack multiple places (not necessarily connected to each other), even into the hundreds, if not thousands, they needs LOTS of detenators.

Yep. A bunch of small explosives going off in public places (malls, sporting events) would cause panic and have a big effect on the economy.

[BamaGirl]

Instead of inconveniencing ourselves, we need to kill them and keep killing them until none are left or until the remaining few surrender.
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Damn right!

[Jameison]

"Sorry, but this idea is wrong. We need to stop proposing solutions that involve reducing our own freedoms"

Most normal cell phone owners already provide all these particulars and get credit checks b4 they are provided cell phones.
In fact the disposables were a relatively new concept.
We wouldn't be "reducing any freedoms" by doing that, since such "freedoms" don't even exist for most cell phone owners

". Instead, we need to take the attitude that our smallest liberty or smallest convenience is worth more than the lives of every member of Al Qaeda, every member of every other jihadist organization"

Nonsense.
That's exactly the kind of crap the new York Slimes has been selling by revealing all the secrets about our intelligence services tracking financial records and phone calls of the Al Quaeda vermin to Al Quaeda.
We absolutely need to do that.Without those, we'd be having another 9/11 this very week.
What's the use of "freedom" when you are blown up on a plane in the mid-Atlantic?

[Chena]

You know it.

[DannyTN]

There was a message to the British plane terrorists to execute their attacks now. I assume a similar message must have been sent to these cells.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

another freeper made this observation on another thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681955/posts?page=37#37

<< The model to worry about with this is the mass bombing in Bangladesh a year or so ago when about 500 small bombs went off in a very short time widely spread over the country. A few bombers to spread lots of bombs and then let their master phones call the rest. They are limited only by how many bombs they can hide before the battery runs down on the first hidden bomb's phone trigger. >>