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Katherine Mangu-Ward on the Texas Truck of Terror

Reason Staff | 2.24.2015 8:30 AM

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Mark Oberholtzer wasn't following the Syrian militant group Jabhat Ansar al-Din on Twitter. So when they tweeted a picture of a Ford pickup in December with an anti-aircraft gun blazing from the truck bed, he probably missed it. Until someone mentioned to him that it was his truck, writes Katherine Mangu-Ward. Or rather, it was a truck previously owned by his plumbing company.

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