If you start to put together a list, you can add Aiken, South Carolina to the list. About a month ago, several Arabs went to the Dollar Stores and tried to buy hundreds of dollars worth of phones. The policy since 9/11 does not allow that many and they became angry but settled for going from store to store buying just 2 at a time.
They were seen outside the stores disposing of the parts of the phone they didn't want. The FBI was called and their van was found later the next day but we never heard whether the Arabs themselves were ever found.
I talked to a Nashville police department "security and threat" section Lt. today and he told me he received an alert that some ME men had tried to purchase cell phones at a Dollar Store in Memphis area.
This is a breaking story, where men of "Palestinian" descent were found with 1,000 TracFones at 1 a.m. in Michigan's Thumb area:
www.wnem.com
Adding
Caro, Michigan (purchase)
Marietta, Ohio (where two from Dearbornistan were arrested)
West Virginia (not sure of city)
This has all the appearance of a plan to detonate lots and lots of IEDs here in the USA.
Be vigilant!
Follow it all to Dearborn Mich. thats where the nest of Vipers are gathered.
Look in Dearborn!!!
Mich freepers...LOOK IN DEARBORN.!!!!!!
Hezbollah Central!!
Someone tried to buy some in Brownsville Texas.
Large quantity of TracPhones purchased at Spearfish, South Dakota, Walmart on Aug. 3rd or 4th. Also electronically ignited hair curlers. Non-electric with butane cannisters.
ping.
bump for publicity
This is from an ABC story back in January 2006. You could go to the ABC site and do a search using "cellphones" and see what turns up. As far as I've seen, there are LOTS of "little" stories like this (with 60 phones found in a van while the perps were being busted for something else) to know that it's a problem. A problem where the dots are not being connected, as usual. (Or we're not hearing about it for some reason.) And I'm HARDLY a 'Conspiracy Theory' type. ;)
"There's very little audit trail assigned to this phone. One can walk in, purchase it in cash, you don't have to put down a credit card, buy any amount of minutes to it, and you don't, frankly, know who bought this," said Jack Cloonan, a former FBI official who is now an ABC News consultant.
Law enforcement officials say the phones were used to detonate the bombs terrorists used in the Madrid train attacks in March 2004.
"The application of prepaid phones for nefarious reasons, is really widespread. For example, the terrorists in Madrid used prepaid phones to detonate the bombs in the subway trains that killed more than 200 people," said Roger Entner, a communications consultant.
*SNIP*
In one New Year's Eve transaction at a Target store in Hemet, Calif., 150 disposable tracfones were purchased. Suspicious store employees notified police, who called in the FBI, law enforcement sources said.
In an earlier incident, at a Wal-Mart store in Midland, Texas, on Dec. 18, six individuals attempted to buy about 60 of the phones until store clerks became suspicious and notified the police. A Wal-Mart spokesperson confirmed the incident.
*SNIP*
FBI officials told ABC News that while the cases may wind up in the hands of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the FBI would benefit from any intelligence gleaned and would take the lead if a solid terrorist connection emerged.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1499905
For ease of future reference I've added this,
KEYWORD: JIHADICELLPHONES
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1515879/posts
Did you get this one from Oct 2005? $60,000 worth at a Target in Dallas...
Adding:
Sometime in mid-July:
Onalaska, WI. Bought out the TracFones. Walmart
Viroqua, WI. Bought out TracFones and electric hair dryers. Walmart.
Sparta, WI. Sent there by Viroqua Walmart for more electric hair dryers. Stated they needed a total of 15. Walmart
Two men of ME appearance, one in their 40s, one a teenager.
Stated that they had to get a certain number of phones and hairdryers before "returning to Michigan."
If a map is produced, I would appreciate being pinged. Thanx.
Just saw on www.wnem.com: "Two Men Try To Buy Multiple Cell Phones In Ithaca" (Michigan?)
If I remember right, this also happened here in our area...seems like a month or so ago. You can add Greenville SC to the list too!
http://www.brocktonmass.com/news/publish/5000584.shtml just an interesting article for months ago.