Prosecutor: Mackinac Bridge was target (plan for cell phones)

The Saginaw News ^ | JUSTIN ENGEL08/12/06

[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.

[SE Mom]

Thought this deserved a thread- seems significant in light of all the cell phone news lately.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

[crghill]

pflr

[Paleo Conservative]

That's not too far from Dearbornistan.

[RDTF]

ping

[SE Mom]

Wow...that's one heckuva span..thanks for the photo.

[xkaydet65]

Kudos to that Walmart clerk. Store policy s no more than three one time cell phones per purchase. this clerk could have denied the purchase, leaving these guys to find other sources. Instead the clerk went ahead with the order and notified the constabulary. Very quick thinking.

[MarkeyD]

It's all the way across the state, though.

[radiohead]

As a Michigander by marriage and UM degrees, all I can say is OMG!

I wonder if Michiganders would finally wake up to the vipers down in Dearborn if the bridge had been blown up.

[SandRat]

don't pick on these poor residents of Dearbornastan and graduates of Hexbolla High; dere good little MAZIs. < / sarc

[fso301]

Hmm. Were they planning to make a big bomb by daisy chaining the lithium ion batteries or, multiple smaller "cutting charges" to sever the mail cables?

[Candor7]

Adham Abdelhamid Othman, 21, and Louai Abdelhamied Othman, 23, their cousin, Maruan Awad Muhareb, 18, are all quiet, freindly Muslim boys who were very religious and who prayed every day. There must be a mistake here! Or were they framed by Home Scurity because it wants to justify the millions of dollars spent on home defence?

This was a set up, these men (boys) are harmless. CAIR said so!

[dinasour]

For those of you who are not following this on the Daily Mideast thread.

This is a link that was posted by TexKat there:

http://www.youareworthmore.org/node/21435

It's an anti-Walmart site, but this thread has some very interesting discussion about this from apparent Wal-Mart employees. This has been going on for months.

[good old days]

Oh my!!! Isn't there usually a walk on the Mackinac Bridge on Labor Day?

[gaijin]

Reallly scary + depressing to think we are in fact relying more on Walmart clerks than on the freaking FBI for our national security.

Perhaps next time we have a Waco-type scenario, we should call Walmart...?

[r9etb]

Seems like a rather pointless target for terrorism, though. About the only way to make it worthwhile to terrorists would be to take it out with a lot of potential victims on it.

Of course, there is one such event coming up: the Annual Bridge Walk, which is scheduled for September 4.

[SE Mom]

It's pretty unbelievable to think of all these cell phones being sold out there to what wicked purpose- whether they were successful or not is almost beside the point. Terror is the point. Will any of the residents there drive across the bridge this week without wondering..

[No Truce With Kings]

Mighty Mackinaw? In the drink?

[Rb ver. 2.0]

"Hmm. Were they planning to make a big bomb by daisy chaining the lithium ion batteries or, multiple smaller "cutting charges" to sever the mail cables?"

10,000 hacksaw blades?