[Myrddin]

They sure match the profile of the types of people we saw in the San Diego area prior to the 9-11 event. If they are using Iridium satellite phones, they are globally usable. Iridium phones can be coarsely located using the Iridium doppler methods. It's not good enough for door to door navigation, but you can locate the phone within a city block. If your daughter has their phone number, there is a way to find the phone. The phone number will also track down the source of financing tht put the phones in service.

[GorillaMa]

I do have the phone number. My daughter and her friend are really clueless. It took me quite sometime to draw this information out of them. I only found out last week that her friend had been seeing a 22 yr. old which I thought was too much. They were reluctant to go further and tell me more about this young man, because at first I was so annoyed that she was hanging around a 22 yr. old. On top of this, they kept insisting that there are no terrorists in Minnesota and that the terrorists have their sole sights on New York. I, personally, have not met this man in question, but my daughter has, and so has her girlfriend's mother. The mother insists that he not only is he not French, but he cannot speak the language either. My daughter's friend relocated here to Minnesota at Christmas time, and so they are not aware that this is the place of the 19th hijacker, etc. When I expressed my concerns to the mother, she too insisted that Minnesota was not a target, but that NYC and San Jose California (???? say what?) were.