Define "Automotive Wire". I doubt if that is an exclusive use.I doubt that wire has a nefarious purpose. You can buy more than enough wire to build bombs or whatever at the local Radio Shack.
One possibility, however, is that they had a truckload full of innocuous stuff that they take to the port and unload, and then pick up something to take back to MI or wherever. So if I were the FBI, I'd be looking very carefully at the contents of every container and every ship in that port or coming into the port in the near future.
Just wire and 'auto' parts headed to Iraqi insurgents and terrorists to make bombs and such. Nothing to see here...move along....(rolling eyes)
Good point. I think they may have been planning on picking up something that was too heavy for one person alone to handle, but on the other hand, they didn't want other people to assist them or see it.
I thought it was interesting that one of the ways they caught them was that the first guy was very nervous. Hopefully, the Muslims won't start training up people who can beat polygraph tests. I have noticed that when I go through Immigration (I travel a fair amount), the people at the desk have obvioiusly been trained to look for certain things. One of my daughters is a police officer, and she said that once you know the signs, you virtually cannot miss them.
Remember the border agent in Washington State who spotted the too-heavy car and the nervous driver and thereby prevented the Muslim tribute to the New Millenium?