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Re: Three Texas Men With Cellphones Arrested on Terrorist Charges

DevilsPGD (spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net)
Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:20:57 -0500

In message <telecom25.299.5@telecom-digest.org> mc
<look@www.ai.uga.edu.for.address> wrote:

> 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.

And even on the odd chance you're planning a thousand bombs, you'd
need enough other supplies that you could buy them three at a time,
you wouldn't walk into a store and buy 80+ .

Death is life's way of telling you you're fired.

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