PORTAGE TOWNSHIP -- The sheriff's office questioned two Russian men Sunday who told a deputy they bought more than 200 prepaid cell phones over the weekend from area stores.
Neither was charged with a crime, but the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office notified Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Cleveland of the incident, according to a sheriff's office report. The men, who have lived in the United States for at least five years, told the deputy they bought the Tracfones from stores in the Port Clinton and Sandusky areas to resell to a businessman, according to the report. The businessman, whose name or location they did not provide, then would sell the phones on eBay, they told Deputy George Byington.
Prepaid cell phones have been linked to terrorist activity in the past, causing store officials to consider the men's behavior suspicious. Some stores have limits on the number of prepaid cell phones customers can buy at one time.
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Nuclear experts kidnapped in Pakistan
February 12, 2008
Two Pakistani nuclear energy officials have been abducted by masked men from a troubled northwestern area near the Afghan border, police said today.
The kidnappers bundled the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) workers and their driver into a vehicle in Sheikh Badin, a town in militancy-hit Dera Ismail Khan district, local police chief Akbar Nasir said. "They were technicians from the PAEC, they were whisked away early Monday morning," Mr Nasir said.
The officials were on a routine visit to conduct a geological survey for mineral exploration in the mountainous area, which adjoins Pakistan's lawless tribal regions, the police chief said. "We don't know if the abductors were militants or members of some criminal gang," he said, adding that they were believed to be from the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. "A search is underway, we are contacting local people ... We are all trying but so far we have no clues."
The abduction of the PAEC officials came on the same day as the disappearance of Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan on his way from the northwestern city of Peshawar to the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday. The envoy, Tariq Azizuddin, was feared abducted in the tribal district of Khyber, raising concern about growing insecurity ahead of parliamentary polls set for Monday.
When counter-terrorism police first screened the video found in Said Namouh's house last September, it looked like an innocuous home movie of little relevance to their investigation. A jerky camera films Mr. Namouh rolling a giant snowball, then cuts away to a set of animal tracks leading into the woods in Quebec's Mauricie region, northeast of Montreal. A 4X4 roars in the background.
But a different story emerged when the soundtrack was translated from Arabic. Mr. Namouh's monologue was about hiding explosives inside the snowball to blow up a passing vehicle, Quebec Court was told during a bail hearing that concluded on Friday.
And it wasn't a snowman's face he was carving into the snowball but the letters " CVC," the initials of the Caliphate Voice Channel, a branch of one of al-Qaeda's most pervasive propaganda groups, the Global Islamic Media Front.
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West Bank money changers arrested on suspicion of funding terror activity (Israel)
02.12.08
IDF forces, along with Judea and Samaria Police and Civil Administration officers raided the homed of five Palestinian money changers in the West Bank Tuesday, seizing over NIS 3 million ($840,000) aimed – according to security forces – to fund terror activity.
The forces confiscated guns and ammunition in four of the five's homes. A similar search was also carried out in the homes of nine other money changers in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Jenin, Ramallah, Hebron and Tulkarm.
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Looking for Map of Cell Phone Purchases
self | August 11, 2006 | madison10
Posted on 08/11/2006 3:01:13 PM PDT by madison10
Has any one made a map, or done any tracking, of cities/towns the cell phones are being purchased? or of where the suspects are being picked up?
Thanks.
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“Registering Pre-paid Cell Phones – A Matter of Security”
By Jay Fraser on February 10, 2008 at 7:43 PM
372 posted on 02/13/2008 3:34:03 AM PST by Cindy