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To: KLP who wrote (80)	8/13/2006 7:00:38 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 441

Yes, there have been other bulk purchases - in OH for example. And the guys from the Dallas area with 1,000 phones in their van had traveled to MI and bought phones at various points along the way. I don't buy that they were gonna sell the phones out of the trunk of a car. That's a lot of money to tie up to recoup selling 'em one at a time out of a car trunk. And if they were going to resell legally, why not just go to a local Walmart in Dallas and buy 'em all at once, instead of in bunches in towns in the boondocks. I suspect it's fallout from the NSA wiretap leak. If people in this country with international terror connections know their calls to someone in Pakistan or wherever may be traced by the NSA, one way to muddy the waters would be to buy a bunch of disposable phones, make a call and throw the phone away or better yet drop it on the street and let a stranger use it. The overseas call could be monitored sure but not traced to anyone here in the states. And if they think the call could somehow be traced to an individual phone (it probably can't but do they know that?) it would lead nowhere if the phone was bought with cash in a Marrietta OH or Caro MI Walmart. I suspect these guys were probably gonna give or sell the phones to someone interested in making calls that couldn't be traced back to them.