Cell Phone Terror Cell Walks

Brian Doherty | September 7, 2006

The last charges are dropped against the three Texas men arrested in Michigan in August (in the wake of the London "liquid bombs on a plane" plot) for having a bunch of cell phones and pictures of the Mackinac bridge. The other cell phone terror cell arrest that week was also a fizzle. In a complete coincidence, the men involved in both arrests had names such as Osama Sabhi Abulhassan and Maruan Muhareb.

I briefly surveyed the sorry history of post-9/11 terror cell busts as part of our five-years-later roundup of what 9/11 has meant for America.

Comments

|9.7.06 @ 5:55PM|#

Wanna bet on how many newscasts which breathlessly reported this story when it first broke are going to bother with any retractions? The best they can hope for is a 5 second blurb following the dozen stories on TomKat's hirsute baby.

|9.7.06 @ 8:27PM|#

Yet again, profiling demonstrates its effectiveness.

Help, save me from those scary Syrians with the McDonald's bags.