08-14-2006, 02:52 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Colorado
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Your country, Your Patriot Act! Do you feel safe now?
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Wife: Men with 1,000 cell phones just reselling
August 14, 2006
BY JAMIE STENGLE
DALLAS -- The wife of one of three Texas men arraigned on terrorism-related charges in Michigan says her husband and his relatives are not terrorists, but are simply trying to make money by reselling cell phones.
''They're locked up in jail for something that they didn't do,'' 20-year-old Lina Odeh said Saturday.
Her husband, Louai Abdelhamied Othman of Mesquite, along with his brother, Adham Abdelhamid Othman of Dallas, and their cousin Maruan Awad Muhareb of Mesquite, are charged with collecting or providing materials for terrorist acts and surveillance of a vulnerable target for terrorist purposes.
Police found about 1,000 cell phones in the men's minivan. Authorities have not said what they think the men intended to do with the phones, most of which were prepaid TracFones.
But the police chief in Caro, Mich., where they were arrested, said cell phones can be used as detonators.
Tuscola County Prosecutor Mark Reene told the Saginaw News in Michigan that investigators think the men were targeting the Mackinac Bridge, which connects Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas. He declined to say what led investigators to that belief.
Odeh said the men were buying the phones to sell to a man in Dallas for a profit of about $5 per phone. She said they were in Michigan because so many people in the Dallas area are doing the same thing that the phones are often sold out. Odeh said she thought her husband and relatives were targeted because of their Arab descent.
The men were arrested Friday afternoon. No pleas were entered at the arraignment Saturday. Bond was set at $750,000 apiece and the men were being held at the Tuscola County Jail, police said.
AP
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I find this a bit of a coincidence that these recent "busts" happen just around mid-term elections. Thanks to a toothless walmart employee, and within the power of the Patriot Act, (giving cops the power to do whatever the fuck they want in the name of "terrorism") 3 guys were arrested as possible terrorists. With absolutely no evidence of terror other than some cell phones. The FBI already questioned these guys, and found nothing to be worried about... Something is up... what do you think? |
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