3 Texas men arraigned on terror charges

[deminks]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060813/ap_on_re_us/phones_terror_charges

CARO, Mich. - Three Texas men were arraigned Saturday on terrorism-related charges after police found about 1,000 cell phones in their minivan, and prosecutors say they believe the men were targeting a bridge connecting Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas.

But two of the men said they were only trying to buy and sell phones to make money, and one said the money was intended to help pay for his brother's college education.

All we did is buy the phones to sell and make money," Louai Abdelhamied Othman told the magistrate. He said authorities had previously stopped the group in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

"We've been checked by the FBI before," he said. "They even gave us their card and everything."

The arrests in Caro came three days after two men were arrested in Marietta, Ohio, where police said they aroused suspicions when they acknowledged buying about 600 phones in recent months at stores in southeast Ohio.

[rubberducky]

1. God, I`m so sick of terra, terra, terra.

[richabk]

2. I got all excited by the headline....

I thought someone finally woke up and went after Bush & his crew.

[deminks]

5. Heh, heh. It does give one hope.

Welcome to DU :hi:

[niyad]

6. I had the same hope!!

[C_U_L8R]

3. and how is this terror ???

the republicans are totally out of control and must be stoppped

[jobycom]

9. They give the phones to Hummer drivers to disrupt traffic on freeways?

:shrug:

[Dr.Phool]

4. Sounds like Homeland Security has been watching reruns of HBO's "The Wire"

[sandrakae]

7. BUSH and DELAY!!!! WHO IS THE OTHER ONE?

[deminks]

8. Unkie KKKarl

[sandrakae]

10. He came to mind, but I wasn't sure where he was from.

[murray hill farm]

11. so, does that mean that anyone who buys large

numbers of items and then resells them on ebay, is a terrorist? Gawd, this is so over the edge...and then there is this...if we, as democrats support a candidate who is anti war, then we are not patriotic and embolden the enemy...where is the line here...when are we labeled "traitors" and "terrorists"? It cannot be far behind. When will the democratic party be considered the "resistance" and when will we become the new enemy...and how long after that will they round us up and arrest us all? The lines are all fuzzy now! Perhaps soon they will not exist.