Islamic Fascists were targeting the Mackinac bridge:
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Prosecutor: Mackinac Bridge was target
JUSTIN ENGEL
THE SAGINAW NEWS
Tuscola County prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges Saturday against three men who they say bought dozens of cell phones Friday in Caro in a globally coordinated plot involving the Mackinac Bridge.
They charged brothers Adham Abdelhamid Othman, 21, and Louai Abdelhamied Othman, 23, along with their cousin, Maruan Awad Muhareb, 18, with identical counts of collecting material to support terrorist acts and surveillance of a vulnerable target with intent to committ terrorism.
Prosecutor Mark E. Reene wouldn’t confirm what evidence led him to believe the Dallas, Texas, men targeted the bridge that connects Michigan’s peninsulas.
Caro and state police arrested the trio when a graveyard shift Wal-Mart cashier became suspicious of their cash purchase of 80 cell phones. Authorities later discovered nearly a thousand pre-paid cell phones in their van.
“All we did is buy the phones to sell and make money,” Louai Abdelhamied Othman told Tuscola District Court Magistrate Joseph A. Van Auken.
Louai Abdelhamied Othman said this isn’t the first time authorities pulled over his crew — and this isn’t the first state it’s happened in either.
“We’ve been checked by the FBI before,” he said. “They even gave us their card and everything.”
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