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Re: Three Texas Men With Cellphones Arrested on Terrorist Charges

mc (look@www.ai.uga.edu.for.address)
Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:33:26 -0400

Associated Press News Wire <ap@telecom-digest.org> wrote in message
news:telecom25.298.3@telecom-digest.org:

> [Editor's Note: A slightly different version of the earlier report.]

> 3 Texas men arraigned on terror charges.

> Three Texas men were arraigned Saturday on terrorism-related charges
> after police found about 1,000 cell phones in their minivan.

> Investigators believe the men were targeting the 5-mile-long Mackinac
> Bridge, which connects Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas. But one
> of the men said they were only trying to buy and sell phones to make
> money.

Ummm ... Is this from The Onion? No?

I don't see what a *large* number of cell phones has to do with
terrorism. Yes, a cell phone can be used as a detonator, but you only
need one, or maybe a few as backups, and having a thousand doesn't
make it any more terrifying.

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