'Today' Doesn't Tell Us Mackinac Bridge Suspects Arab-Americans

Today Show/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

by Mark Finkelstein

August 14, 2006

Maruan Awad Muhareb. Adham Abdelhamid Othman. Louai Abdelhamied Othman.

Now you know the names of the three suspects arrested over the weekend, suspected in a plot to blow up the Mackinac Bridge, which connects Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas.

You wouldn't have known either their names or backgrounds had you relied on the Today show this morning for the information. According to the wife of one of the suspects, the men's families come from Jerusalem.

According to NBC reporter Janet Shamlian, who narrated a segment on the situation, those facing terrorism charges are "three Texas men." For all Today told us, the suspects could have been Bubba and the Boys, perhaps upset that the Detroit Tigers are leading the Texas Rangers in the American League.

The three are, of course, innocent until proven guilty. Perhaps it was just a misuderstanding, and they were buying cell phones not to use as detonators, but - as they claim - to resell at a profit back in Texas. Nevertheless, without the information on their backgrounds, Today gave us much less than half the story.

[OldFriend]

LOLOLOL......oh boy..........It's all just fauxnews. They're either omitting or misrepresenting to get their agenda in front of the sheeple.

[DCPatriot]

So I guess some ME guy driving a propane truck across the bridge with a bottle of "gatorade" next to him in the cab wouldn't be out of the ordinary and couldn't do much damage either.

Good point.

[Doc Savage]

Of course. As you well know Texas doesn't have any cell phones for sale there!!! Everyone knows that!!

[OldFriend]

Our cell phones do not work abroad.

[Doc Savage]

Having seen these three it is hard to believe that MUTANTS like these were ever born. Normally the body would repel such defective and ugly zygotes. Can you even begin to imagine how deformed and grotesque the parents were???????

[PJ-Comix]

They were all Presbyterians.

[Kieri]

We all know that Retuers will use photoshopped pictures (unless they get caught). I don't think it's any stretch of the imagination to think the MSM will start using the dodge tool to make these potential terrorists look a little less "ethnic."

[Westlander]

Right. DeVos is behind this evil scheme.

[billhilly]

It may be a simple statement that Political Correctness has crippled this nation, but it is a simple statement of fact.

[billhilly]

Leroy, Bubba and Spike?

[Westlander]

For the 890th time, It's the Albino Aleutian Mennonites.

[Honorary Serb]

Those aren't just Arab-Americans (most of whom are Christians). They're "Palestinian" muslims!!!!

Even the term "Arab-American" is a politically-correct weasel word. The term is also used by islamists to convince Arab-American Christians to throw in their lot with them, even if they (or their ancestors) left the Middle East to escape islamic persecution.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

APB for Kinky Friedman!!

[LZ_Bayonet]

It one were to buy the story that these three were buying them for resale, to be sold to a "distributor" for resale to gas station owners, is it not possible that:
1)This is only profitable for the three because the project is subsidized by another entity.
2) That the resales are a cover. And, that for every 1,000 phones sold to a "distributor", only 500 (pick a number) are resold to gas stations and the rest used for terrorism.

[billhilly]

"So, Jewish Texans is the impression they were going for."

Kinky Friedman.

[Rummyfan]

PC Kills!

[governsleastgovernsbest]

GMTA - see #53!

[OldFriend]

Kinky's busy bashing Bush.

[MEG33]

IIRC ..the store clerks were the ones who alerted the FBI.

[ApplegateRanch]

and you can trust a guy whose first name is 'Osama', right?

Absolutely, but the MSM, ACLU, CAIR, & the government would not like WHAT I trust him to say or do...that would be prejudice, profiling and bigotry.