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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: Spiff
Hmmm...what do these 3 have in common? I'm trying to figure it out. Umm....same knitting circle? No. Bridge club? No. Hmmmm...I just can't put my finger on it.

They all have a capital "A" in their name, silly. Listen to the FBI. There is NO threat coming from mosques.....

81 posted on 08/12/2006 3:55:02 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (Political troglodyte with a partisan axe to grind)
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To: Peter Libra
I share your awe, Peter.

If I'm not taking a boat from Traverse City to the Island, I drive the other way across the bridge, to St Ignace, mainly to take the Bridge, but also since it's a much shorter ferry ride than from Mackinaw City. When sailing or motoring into Huron, the Bridge is a stunning view from the water, especially when you pass under it.

82 posted on 08/12/2006 3:56:38 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.)
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To: mgstarr
Did you know that there will be 65,000 people walking across that bridge on Sept. 4th? What about 70,000 plus people at a U of M football game?

Considering there have been cell phone arrests in many states, this is part of a larger plot. As I said above, it wouldn't surprise me at all if they had a list of targets in every single state in order to maximize terror- and throw our emergency response into a state of chaos.

83 posted on 08/12/2006 3:57:07 PM PDT by rintense
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To: SE Mom

But these young men were such good football players and pillars of the community, according to their families.

They never could have been involved in anything even remotely bad!


84 posted on 08/12/2006 3:57:09 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: GarySpFc; MarkL

Discarding the battery chargers is certainly unusual. Since the batteries are usually not charged when purchased, what were they going to do with the phones without charged batteries? Somehow wire it into some other power source?


85 posted on 08/12/2006 3:57:13 PM PDT by FourPeas (when it comes to binary, there are 10 kinds of people: those who get it and those who don't)
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To: SE Mom

Their business model, buying from Walmart, then selling at a profit is not entirely delusional, but if I'm a cop listening to the business model my first question is "why can't your customers go to Walmart themselves? Just exactly who are your customers?"


86 posted on 08/12/2006 3:57:39 PM PDT by MrKatykelly (follow the money)
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To: SE Mom
The suspension part of "suspension bridge" hinges on the suspension apparatus being positively anchored onto LAND, right?

It is tension between two land anchorpoints, transmitted across the top span and hanging down that provides support?

It seems to me you would NOT have to fracture the sturdy verticle girdered supports to bring the bridge down, no:

You would blast at the anchorpoint of one of the two span/land anchorpoints, and like a laundry clothesline snapping at one point, the ghastly rest would gradually, tragically, play out.

I know this cuz the SF Golden Gate Bridge had a similar vulnerability that went unseen for a time, and was later corrected, under high secrecy. That's why the Feds took to guarding those two points so zealously when the T's said they were going to bring it down.

87 posted on 08/12/2006 3:57:48 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: SE Mom

IF these guys were halfway intelligent, they'd take a break for election year.


88 posted on 08/12/2006 3:57:51 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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To: Howlin; Miss Marple

Check out the link in post 14, it is a message board where store clerks/mgrs were talking about these mass phone purchases back in March.


89 posted on 08/12/2006 3:59:24 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: rintense

I know,...used to live in Ypsi-tucky


90 posted on 08/12/2006 3:59:33 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: gaijin
SF Mayor Gavin Newsome had to consult with Dr. Bill Wattenburgh (a famous atomic physicist and conservative radio talk-show host) in order to get an engineering solution for protecting the Golden Gate Bridge.

Suspension Bridges are huge and marvelous but they are exquisitely VULNERABLE.

91 posted on 08/12/2006 3:59:55 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: rintense

Let's make everyone buying a cell phone pass a background check. Better yet, let's have a federal registry of everyone who buys cell phones, batteries, etc. Heck, with the latest weekend news, we should do the same for anyone buying containers of liquid that could be taken on board an airplane.

Can't be too careful these days.


92 posted on 08/12/2006 4:00:08 PM PDT by mgstarr
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To: Paleo Conservative

it's not there...


93 posted on 08/12/2006 4:00:11 PM PDT by RDTF ("We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us two.” Osama Bin laden)
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To: GarySpFc

Excellent tagline.


94 posted on 08/12/2006 4:00:45 PM PDT by Aeronaut ("Endless repetition is not a coherent argument." —Thomas Sowell)
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To: gaijin

I was in SF in 02 and have pictures of our soldiers guarding the bridge- and posing with overjoyed Chinese tourists. :) The Chinese women were so giddy to have their picture taken with our boys. I thanked the guys for their service. :)


95 posted on 08/12/2006 4:00:52 PM PDT by rintense
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To: FourPeas
Since the batteries are usually not charged when purchased, what were they going to do with the phones without charged batteries?

The paperwork says to charge the batteries. This does not mean that there is no residual charge on the batteries. They were charged, tested, and recharged to a certain extent.

96 posted on 08/12/2006 4:00:58 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (Political troglodyte with a partisan axe to grind)
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To: mgstarr

No one is saying that.


97 posted on 08/12/2006 4:01:41 PM PDT by rintense
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To: SE Mom

Makes you wonder how many things besides the planes were supposed to go boom.


98 posted on 08/12/2006 4:01:42 PM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

Even if there is a residual charge, depending on how long ago the testing was done it could be so nominal that the phone won't function or function just enough to last a few minutes. Hardly a reliable phone.


99 posted on 08/12/2006 4:04:07 PM PDT by FourPeas (when it comes to binary, there are 10 kinds of people: those who get it and those who don't)
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To: freeperfromnj

Newspaper said the plane attacks were schedule next week - for the 16th.

Keep your eyes open.

AQ traditionally has coordinated multiple simultaneous attacks. Maybe one or more, are still "go".


100 posted on 08/12/2006 4:04:28 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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