Terrorist Arrests in US for Massive Cellphone Purchases

Concerned Citizen: Kudos to Joel, Mr. Law Enforcement, for this one.

This is one article you are unlikely to see anywhere in the national media -- the purchase of large numbers of cell phones (hundreds) from multiple retailers by persons with Arabic names who also happened to have in their possession "instructions on how to obtain private flights and airplane passenger information". As I have muttered to my wife -- and anyone else interested in listening -- airport security procedures continue to be a joke as long as one can bring his cellphone and laptop on the plane, because cellphones provide all the workings to detonate a device.

We can only surmise what these guys wanted them for -- it could simply have been for something "harmless" like black market smuggling (and the airplane info just a coincidence), or it could have been a lot worse. In any event, rest assured that we continue to be threatened by an enemy who is closer than we think, who very well might be a US citizen.

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