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Prosecutor: Mackinac Bridge was target (plan for cell phones)
The Saginaw News ^
| JUSTIN ENGEL08/12/06
Posted on 08/12/2006 3:11:03 PM PDT by SE Mom
Tuscola County prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges Saturday against three men who they say bought dozens of cell phones Friday in Caro in a globally coordinated plot involving the Mackinac Bridge.
They charged brothers Adham Abdelhamid Othman, 21, and Louai Abdelhamied Othman, 23, along with their cousin, Maruan Awad Muhareb, 18, with identical counts of collecting material to support terrorist acts and surveillance of a vulnerable target with intent to committ terrorism.
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To: SE Mom
"HOWEVER! They can also be used to make IED's...cover communication trails....has this poster been made aware of the bridge involvement?" I had one of my facts wrong, he has been a member since 2004. And It's very unlikely this poster would agree they were terrorists no matter what proof you sent his or her way.
For example here is his first post
Three Middle Eastern Men Found With 1000 Cell Phones
To: george76
So they buy em for $20 sell them for $38 out of the back of thier van perhaps with the implication that they are hot and don't disclose that they are only good for 40 minutes of airtime.
They sound like dishonest business men but not terrorists.
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08/11/2006 11:11:11 AM PDT by
The Lumster (USA - where the innocent have nothing to fear!)
And it just goes downhill from there.
To: gaijin
Perhaps next time we have a Waco-type scenario, we should call Walmart...? Well, that would be a lot better than calling BATF. At least WalMart clerks wouldn't burn a bunch of innocent little kids to death.
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:01:50 PM PDT
by
epow
To: Gritty
it would be a lot easier to plant several IEDs along the parade route and set them off simultaneously. Yes I think your are right. These knuckleheads aren't that stupid to think they could take the bridgew down. They probably had something like you say in mind.
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:02:17 PM PDT
by
tommix2
To: Diva
wouldn't it be a hit on both the US and Canada ? why terrorize only one country when two would be preferable ?
Glad your kids made it across ok, and will return ok ... send them to Wal-Mart for a thank you shopping spree ;)
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:03:01 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: no dems
"Oh yeah it is; it's about 9 hours from Dearborn to Macinac Bridge"
By bicycle? You could drive it from the Ohio line in 6 hrs.
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:03:05 PM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(Buh Bye Joey Schwartz, the 7th district doesn't vote for liberal pukes)
To: SE Mom
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:03:18 PM PDT
by
UB355
(Slower Traffic Keep Right)
To: rintense; Cindy
09-04-06?
Add it up...19 is a "special number" for the terrorists.
To: delacoert
Names? For us less astute...
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:03:48 PM PDT
by
dakine
To: rintense
Yeah...remember that converted muslim guy that blew himself up right outside a packed football stadium in OK last year?
He had tried, unsuccessfully, to get into the stadium twice...but, but, he was no terrorist...we know that because his father, the FBI and the President of the college told us he wasn't.
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:04:28 PM PDT
by
top 2 toe red
(To the enemy in Iraq..."Don't bet on American politics forcing my hand!" President Bush)
To: ARealMothersSonForever
Well, it's great that pre paid can be tracked. How about the first time they are used it is as detonators to kill a bunch of people crossing that bridge on Labor Day? So what if we could track them all...the people are already DEAD!
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:05:00 PM PDT
by
Miss Marple
(Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
To: top 2 toe red
...keep changing their cell phones with different phone numbers every call or two.If 'talking' was the purpose, why discard the batteries?
Who knows? First off, by getting rid of the packaging, the phones would be smaller, and easier to conceal or ship. And it could be that they want to charge the batteries en-mass, outside of the phone, then distribute the phones with the batteries disconnected, to ensure that the GPS devices are disabled. I don't know if the chargers are the sort that recharge through the phone, or if they're stand-alone, and the article doesn't say.
Mark
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:05:14 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: SE Mom
Counter Radio Controlled IED Electronic Warfare (CREW)
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:05:38 PM PDT
by
dakine
To: Paleo Conservative
Oh and I wanted to tell you that that bridge now has warning lights to keep people from driving off a missing section again.
To: SE Mom
Adham Abdelhamid Othman, 21, and Louai Abdelhamied Othman, 23, along with their cousin, Maruan Awad Muhareb, 18, with identical counts of collecting material to support terrorist acts and surveillance of a vulnerable target with intent to committ terrorism.By the names, I see those Christian terrorists are at it again? Sheesh.
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:05:55 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(There are good terrorists - dead ones.)
To: dakine
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:07:27 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet-pray for Israel))
To: ARealMothersSonForever
prepaid wireless does not get tracked. I can walk into best buy and walk out with an activated phone. no one knows I purchased it, they can listen to my conversation - but they can't trace the number to me.
FNC covering this again now.
To: rintense
"Again, at the very least... 500 bombs killing 10 people would have a greater death toll than 911. And if this scenario is taking place in every state... God help us all."
I was thinking the same thing as I came to your post. Literally there have been thousands of these things purchased by different people. We may have only caught a few. What better way to bring the country to a stand still than by setting thousands of small bombs around the country, no where of importance, and just enough explosives to destroy 1 car, or one building. All seemingly completely random, and all triggered by a disposable cell phone. I said thousands what about hundreds of thousands? The people triggering them could hit them all at once, or do multiple waves, and they would not even have to be in this country. We would be thrown into anarchy, and chaos in seconds, and might never recover. Take a city like where I am, Charlotte. On 9/4 at 10am 10,000 explosions like I described above took place. First responders go out, and can't cover near all of them, and this happened in every city in America. Bad, bad deal. I hope someone alot smarter than me is going over inventory sheets for every cell phone manufacturer, and retailer in this country.
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:08:16 PM PDT
by
rikkir
(Focus, people, focus, we still have work to do in November!)
To: dinasour
Thx for the link, interesting posts. Thinks it's an anti-Dollar General site, tho - DGSUCKS?
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posted on
08/12/2006 5:08:32 PM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Hey, look man, I didn't mean to shoot the son of a b!tch. The gun went off. I don't know why.)
To: Miss Marple
I doubt the alibi of buying these phones to resell them. With all that cash, they'd have no problem buying these phones cheaper wholesale. Perhaps they didn't go wholesale so as to avoid scrutiny because they want tax free income, but that is still illegal, and I wonder if all the time and effort is cheaper than the taxes. Can't think of any reasons for the actions that don't involve illegality at some point in the chain.
I also question that these are all intended to be used as detonators (though perhaps some are.) Probably most will be used for communication. The New York Times' gifts just keep giving and giving and giving...
To: Miss Marple
It should only take one phone though right? What are the others for?
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