Posted on 08/14/2006 10:56:09 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
No way if they were going to re-sell the phones they were going to do so without the batteries. No way.
Of course not, the dilithium crystals will activate the detonator, won't they?
Not to diminish how potentially serious these allegations are, do we really have staff writers who write "had went?" Is there an editor at that newspaper?
The best explaination that I heard was there were taking the ID chips out of the phones and sending them, mostly to Europe.
That what if you want and untraceable phone, you don't need to be carrying around 50 phones. Just use one phone and change the chip after every use.
“There’s a couple of reasons why you would do that,” said Page. “If you are using them as a bomb detonator, you don’t really need a battery in there, do you? And secondly, batteries can be used in methamphetamine production.”
No way were they to be re-sold.
And the men were Palestinian. I don't know just how stupid the authorities think we are, but it's insulting that we're supposed to believe these phones without batteries and their photographs of the bridge are just innocent happenstance.
So now they're making boms with Caro syrup in Caro, Egyp?
FNC just now: Men had removed chargers AND batteries and the men say they were going to re-sell the phones.
Riight. That will work with the uninformed masses.
"Is there an editor at that newspaper?"
Yes there is. And I writed her and axed her to do's some more proofs reading. I was series to.
Want to bet the ACLU will be all over this? These poor Arab men were only trying to raise money for school! And these awful white-bread types in rural Michigan made all this trouble for them.
Must be a civil suit here somewhere.
"Wal-Mart has a policy of allowing only three disposable phones to be purchased per customer."
Some policy - These guys were also picked up in N.Dakota, S.Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin doing the same thing. So, what about the Wal-mart employee who got them the 80 phones in Caro???? Was he/she bribed? Same goes for the two jihadists from Dearborn arrested in Ohio buying up cell phones. Why does the FBI keep letting these bums go?
Absolutely. In addition, if they really wanted to go into the cell phone business, they could have made suitable arrangements to buy them in bulk, wholesale.
The only reason they would go to 50 different Wal-Marts and pay in cash is that they wanted the transactions to be untraceable.
And there is only one reason why they would want that.
So we're supposed to believe that there are 1000 people in Texas who don't know that they can buy the phones, with charger and a $40 airtime card in their local Walmart or Dolllar General for $20? Where they would have the right to a replacement or refund if there is a problem.
I believe the correct legal term here is "a likely story."
Likely story, indeed.
If the phones were destined for terrorist communication networks, or for IEDs for use over the next month, they would have been purchased months or even years ago.
That means someone is stockpiling these phones.
Stockpiling implies a belief that you will not be able to purchase these items in the future.
The terrorists know something we don't, something significant.
You make too many assumptions. Perhaps the lack of sleep from the circling black helecopters.
It would take you less than an hour to make a phone into a detonator, particularly if someone told you how to do it. I never have, but I guarantee I could McGyver one in an hour, with a couple of common items purchasable with no scrutiny.
If the plan was "Let's blow people up in 2 weeks", that gives you plenty of time for one or two bombmakers to make the bombs while the others scout and to intel.
That there's what you call good writing in Caro.
Shalom.
And what school was that?
It was Ali's Demolition and Explosives School, your honor. Perfectly innocent.
Shalom.
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