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Cell Phones Bought in Bulk in Tri-Cities 8/15/2006 7:00pm <http://www.nebraska.tv/news/local/?skipthumb=Y> <http://www.nebraska.tv/news/local/?skipthumb=Y> play A man that was arrested with suspected terrorist links may have purchased phones here in Nebraska. It happened after Thursday's scare when cell phones were thought to be used to detonate bombs on airlines. But it may not be what it seems. Mark McNeil, Store Manager of the Kearney Walmart, "It was multiple that they were trying to purchase, above 40 I would say." Kearney, Hastings, Norfolk and Grand Island, all saying that Walmart stores have seen incidents of people trying to buy many "Pay-As-You-Go" cell phones. "They'll go from one register to another register to an outlying register," explains McNeil, "If it's for terrorist reasons or other reasons that they can't be traced properly there's some control obviously the FBI might have some interest." But local managers say almost all of the time it's not to threaten the nation. "There are some people that buy them and ship them overseas to make a profit off of what they can buy them from us for and resell them for," adds McNeil. Authorities now say the three men arrested, one who was in Nebraska had more than 1,000 cell phones and have no links to terrorism, but the policy of three phones per day per customer at Walmart can help reduce the risk. "I would say we as a retailer need to enforce the mass quantity buying to limit the exposure anyone in the us would have if it's a terrorist situation," concludes McNeil. The three men were charged with collecting or providing materials for terrorist acts, but they claimed they were buying the phones for resale. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
