U.S. arrests 3 men suspected of targeting Michigan bridge for terrorist attack (AP)

AP | 8/12/06

[silentknight]

U.S. arrests 3 men suspected of targeting Michigan bridge for terrorist attack (AP)

Link coming...

[Calpernia]

I stole it from google images. :)

[tcrlaf]

Da Mennenite's be at it again, yes? Doncha know...

[Calpernia]

I think the Phillipines should be added for hotbed of activity also.

[quantim]

Yes, there is ingrown muzzie hate (like a bad toenail) and they already have enough tools to make 9-11 look like a paid union vote day holiday.

Not if and when these vermin strike, but where.

[LikeLight]

Excellent work on the map. Cell phone arrests starting to pile up.

And why would they be separating the phones from the batteries and chips if they were reselling? Something else is up, indeed.

Problem is, the midwestern confluence of datapoints so far may or may not tell us anything - it could mean simply that WalMart clerks in our urban coastal areas aren't as likely to call police to report suspicious purchases.

[bobsunshine]

Here is some more information that I read over at Debbie Schlussel's site (emphasis mine):

You know the 11 missing Egyptian Muslim "students" who never showed up at Montana State University?

While some of them have been found, Safa Pizza--the Maryland pizza shop where two of them showed up as "employees"--should be a place of interest to federal counterterrorism investigators . . . if it isn't already.

Ditto for its owner, Egyptian Attia Gouda, who was harboring these missing aliens in his Baltimore area apartment. Why isn't ICE arresting him? And why won't the Baltimore Sun name his pizza shop in their article on the 2 students? Attention, reporters: It's Safa Pizza a/k/a Safa's Pizza.

Last October, when officials closed down the Baltimore Fort McHenry and Harbor Tunnels because of an alleged terror plot to blow it up, they arrested several men in connection with the alleged plot on immigration violations. Some of them had maps of the tunnels, etc. Guess where they arrested two of them? Safa Pizza.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/08/2_missing_egypt.html

[madison10]

Awesome maps!

[cripplecreek]

They couldn't have been making much more than gas money travelling across the copuntry buying cell phones. Cheap phones to be sure but it sounds like about $20,000 worth of cheap phones.

[AmericanInTokyo]

At any rate, look we can all agree on this one:

NO way in HECK that these suspects are going to turn out to be young, single Islamic males between 20 and 40.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Harsh Hindus, Troublesome Taoists, Zany Zoroastrans, Sneaky Shintoists, Mad Mormons...... ???

[AmericanInTokyo]

holy crap! Wow, you just connected some BIG DOTS there!

[vimto]

That is a great image!

[AmericanInTokyo]

By Matthew Dolan, Baltimore Sun reporter Originally published October 20, 2005 Law enforcement officials and members of the local Egyptian community are raising new questions about an informant who prompted Maryland officials to close two Baltimore harbor tunnels and a major interstate, fearing a suspected terrorist attack. A day after the tunnel closures, the FBI has been unable to corroborate the account of the informant - an Egyptian who once lived in the Baltimore area and is now being held in the Netherlands on immigration violations. No criminal charges have been filed in the alleged plot to blow up one of Baltimore's harbor tunnels, the FBI confirmed yesterday. "I think there is doubt, because nothing happened and nothing else has been developed to corroborate the account," said a federal law enforcement official familiar with the investigation. The informant's motives remain murky. But in interviews yesterday, associates of the four men detained in the case said they believe they know the identity of the informant and that he had lied because his friends failed to get him back into the United States. His information, which included names of people living and working in Baltimore, helped persuade Maryland Transportation Authority Police to close Interstate 95 Tuesday at the Fort McHenry Tunnel and Interstate 895 at the Harbor Tunnel. Authorities tied up traffic for hours as they searched cars and trucks for explosives while FBI and immigration agents scoured the region for the men named by the informant. The tipster alleged that at least six Egyptians living in the Baltimore area were plotting to drive a bomb-laden vehicle into one of the tunnels and detonate the explosives. The explosives were to have been smuggled into port aboard a ship, according to the informant. Agents searched a Southeast Baltimore market and at least three pizza restaurants and detained four Middle Eastern men on immigration violations. Suied Mohamad-Ahamad, 25, and Mohamed Ahmed Mohamady Ismail, 30, both Egyptians, were taken into custody at Safa's Pizza on Merritt Avenue in Dundalk. A third man, Ahmad al Momani, 58, from Jordan, was picked up at Koko Market, a Middle Eastern business in Highlandtown. Mohamed Mohamed Abdel Hamed, 29, also Egyptian, was arrested in the 2900 block of Sollers Point Road in Dundalk. The owner of the Koko Market was arrested on a gun charge, court records show. Maged M. Hussein, 41, was charged with violating a protective order by failing to surrender a revolver. The protective order had been obtained by his estranged wife last month in Baltimore County. 'A good man' Kamal Zughbar, 63, who lives in a basement apartment on Rappolla Street in the Greektown neighborhood, described al Momani as a friend and fellow Jordanian immigrant whom he has known for about five years. "He's a good man," Zughbar said. "That's what I know." Abdel Hamed's and Mohamad-Ahamad's landlord said the men told her they are cousins when they rented the basement of her brick rowhouse on Sollers Point Road about eight months ago. Eileen Katherine said she was shocked when FBI agents took Abdel Hamed away in handcuffs Tuesday. "We had no idea," she said, referring to their alleged illegal immigration status. Abdel Hamed was divorced from a woman in Egypt and had a 4-year-old daughter, Katherine said. She said both men sent money to their families in Egypt. She said friends at Didi's Pizzeria Restaurant and Carryout, where she said the men worked, came to get their belongings from the apartment yesterday. 'Ulterior motives'

(This article shows the two Egyptians "students" found at the pizza joint in DUNDALK, MARYLAND this week, were at the location also raided last year for a plot to bomb tunnel in Maryland. The SAME pizza shop, the same city! "Egyptian students must have just gotten lost and ended up at the same location that was a terrorist operation before" (sarcasm)

[cripplecreek]

Just an idea of what we're looking at.

[AnimalLover]

East Coast, West Coast and the Midwest too!

[piasa]

Trivia: If I recall correctly, John Walker Lindh did have his name legally changed to Sulayman.

[piasa]

Whoever they are, I will bet they are Muslims. Just a hunch.

Wow, what a risk taker you are, going out on a moos-limb like that.

[roses of sharon]

We are leaving Thurs for the UP.

Man, I am sick of these bastards!

[Cyber Liberty]

What is it with the cell phones and these guys?