If you're doing it, someone is eventually going to report it and someone is eventually going to ask about the person to whom you are reselling the phones. John Walker Lindh was a young WHITE AMERICAN. Pearlman is a young white American. That didn't make them less a threat.
And yes, phones have been used to set off bombs, and people have died from those bombs, some of them American, even more of them Muslims, some Hindus, and Jews of course. That should make you think about what you're selling and to whom, particularly if they are going overseas. Chances are you don't know much at all about the purchaser or care so long as you get your money since you may not have known what the phones can be used for. Just because not every phone is used for that purpose does not mean that it hasn't been done before, or that it won't be done again. No one assumes that all phones like this are going to terrorists. We're only concerned that some are.
We've had one guy already get caught and convicted in a case where he provided "aid and comfort" to this country's enemies - al Qaeda - in the form of sleeping bags and *cell phones* and airline tickets. He was involved in a plot to obtain antiaircraft missiles, a plot to blow up US gas stations and damage bridges, among other things.
the case of the 2 Arab Americans in ohio has been dropped they have been let go
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060814/NEWS99/60814032
You said that there have been cases of people useing cells to make bombs that is correct but we are talking about 5-20 cell phones used for bad things in the last year.... that doesnt mean we should get rid of all the cell phones...
I would be willing to bet that there were more bad things done with gas... guns.... matches.... knifes... tnt... or anything else you can think of and no one is talking about them
we do know who we are selling these phones to... I talk to the person just about everyday and i stated that they are being sold to china and hong kong.... Has there been any reports of people from china or hong kong making bombs....