From: "Gary Britt" 

And of course if you want to resell cell phones bought at retail prices at
Wal-Mart for profit the first thing you do is:

1.  Get in your car with two buddies and drive to the nearest Wal-Mart that
is at least 1000 miles from where you live in Texas.

2.  You increase their resell value by immediately removing them from their
packaging and separating them from their batteries and chargers.

3.  You sell them sans packaging for a profit over the wal-mart retail
price to gas station operators and convenience store clerks, who in turn
mark them up a second time so they can sell them to other people who aren't
interested in the packaging and chargers and batteries or INSTRUCTIONS on
how to buy more minutes or how to activate them.

4.  You assume that there will be an market of purchasers for these
enhanced by no packaging, chargers or instructions cell phones by people
too lazy or stupid to go to wal-mart themselves and buy the very same phone
for half the price off the shelf with packaging , warranty, minutes
purchasing instructions, phone operation instructions, and a charger.

Next while 1000 to 1500 miles from the wife and baby exploiting your
booming cell phone packaging removal and resale business you go site seeing
and take lots of pictures of and make various drawings of the largest
bridge in the area because of course you can sell the cell phones even
faster by throwing them off the Mackinaw Bridge to the waiting throngs of
never heard of buying for themselves at wal-mart customers in boats below
the bridge.

Only a moron would even consider such an explanation for more than oh about
100 microseconds.  Actually, that statement is too disrespectful of regular
morons.

Gary

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
news:op.td806xwem6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
> 1.  (And this doesn't surprise me a whit).
> The "threat" of the plane bombers was trivial and came up
because somebody
> needed aome visibility.
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14320452/
>
> Source: U.S., U.K. at odds over timing of arrests
> British wanted to continue surveillance on terror suspects, official  says
> NBC VIDEO
>
>
> . Disagreement over terror arrests
> Aug. 12: U.S. and British authorities disagreed on when to break up an
> alleged plot to blow up airliners bound for the United States, officials
> say. NBC's Lisa Myers reports.
>
> By Aram Roston, Lisa Myers, and the NBC News Investigative Unit
> NBC News
> Updated: 8:13 p.m. ET Aug 12, 2006
>
> LONDON - NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a
> significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the
> alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United
> States.
>
> A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police
> were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to
> try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to
> arrest the suspects sooner. The official spoke on condition of anonymity
> due to the sensitivity of the case.
>
> In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not
> imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets.
> In fact, some did not even have passports.
>
>
> 2.  (This explains the cell phones perfectly:  somebody wanted a quick
> score -- the capitalist way)
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/12/AR20060812006
92.html
>
> 3 Texas Men Arraigned on Terror Charges
>
> The Associated Press
> Saturday, August 12, 2006; 11:07 PM
>
> CARO, Mich. -- Three Texas men were arraigned Saturday on
> terrorism-related charges after police found about 1,000 cell phones in
> their minivan, and prosecutors say they believe the men were targeting a
> bridge connecting Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas.
>
> But two of the men said they were only trying to buy and sell phones to
> make money, and one said the money was intended to help pay for his
> brother's college education.
>
> (In other places, you can see that apparently [I'm not tied in to these,
> uh, "enterprises", so I have to take others' analyses as not
unreasonable]
> somebody has found a way to hack the cheapie pre-paid cell phones so they
> work on other networks.  Besides ... what terrorist network is going to
> need 1000 cell phones?  If you need that many you'd pick them up in a
> bunch now, a bunch several months from now ...

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