But why won't just one do? It seems they need many with which to build a new one that is something rather special.
2 cell phones are needed if they are setting it up so that the bomb goes off when the cell phone connected to the bomb is called from another throw away cell phone. If you called the bomb connected cell phone from a land line (pay phone - home phone, a registered cell phone) it would be traceable.
Pay as you go cell phones are very untraceable.
Well, how about if you didn't want to simply set off one explosion but set off 20 or 30 of them at the same time for a really big show? I suppose it's possible if you know how, to set all the phones to the same number, but I'm no phone expert.
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.
They're also used for "secure" communications. Telephone calls can be "bugged" by the good guys (of course, that would be us, but the Treason Times would scream of the evils of this), but they need a telephone number, or a person's name to watch for traffic. If someone has a bunch of untracable cell phones (disposable, all paid with cash), he could talk without worrying about being bugged, since there's no way that the good guys would know what number he's talking on. And if they're using those phones for just one or two conversations at each end, then getting rid of the phones, there's no way to listen in on the conversations.
Which is just one of the many reasons to hate the Treason Times, for revealing the fact that the government might be listening in.
Mark
Police bomb experts think one phone may be the trigger, but using two is common. Now, combine all these phone discoveries in the past week (over a thousand) and you've got at least 500 potential bomb detonation devices ready to go. Put that on a larger scale... Let's say that those 500 bombs kill only 10 people each. You now have an event that surpasses 9-11.
Maybe they are planning on setting off more than one bomb?