'Cellphone Terrorists' Planned on Destroying Bridge

That's the first indications in the investigation of the three Palestinian-American men buying up prepaid cellphones at Walmarts. Here's what the local report says:
Federal authorities helped with the investigation into a possible terror threat to the Mackinac Bridge. The FBI office in Detroit worked with local law enforcement authorities before the police arrested three men in Caro on Friday. Officers found about 1,000 pre-paid cell phones in their van. Police in Caro arrested the three Palestinian-American men after they allegedly bought 80 of the phones at a Wal-Mart store in Caro.
Here's another report:
On Saturday, three Texas men were arrested in Caro, Mich. That's a small town, smaller in population that Cheboygan, in the Thumb area of Michigan. Maruan Awad Muhareb, of Mesquite, Texas; Adham Abdelhamid Othman, of Dallas; and Louai Abdelhamied Othman, of Mesquite, are charged with collecting or providing materials for terrorist acts and surveillance of a vulnerable target for terrorist purposes.

They had bought 80 cell phones from a Wal-Mart in Caro. Police found 1,000 of the cell phones in their vehicle. While the men claim they were buying the phones, a supposedly hard-to-find brand in Texas, for resale, law enforcement thinks otherwise. The phones were to be used, investigators say, to blow up the Mackinac Bridge. Perhaps on the Mighty Mac's busiest day, the Labor Day Bridge Walk.

That would make a terror statement.
Investigators need to pull more pieces of the puzzle together before they can prosecute and convict this trio. Investigators also need to pull together the rest of their team because they couldn't have done this with just three people. It appears this trio were planning on doing some major damage to the Mackinac Bridge on its busiest day of the year, when perhaps 65,000 people were plannning on participating in the annual Mackinac Bridge Walk.

It isn't time to get nervous; it's a time to be observant, alert. It's time to not worry about profiling.



Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 6:53 PM

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