Another terror attack?
Yeah, there’s the plane thing in England but a potential small scale item happened in Ohio. Via R. Neal, comes this:
Two men were charged Wednesday with money laundering in support of terrorism after authorities said they found airplane passenger lists and information on airport security checkpoints in their car.
Deputies stopped Osama Sabhi Abulhassan, 20, and Ali Houssaiky, 20, both of Dearborn, Mich., on a traffic violation Tuesday. They found the flight documents along with $11,000 cash and 12 phones in the car, said Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks.
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Investigators going through the car after the pair were pulled over in Marietta, about 90 miles southeast of Columbus, also found a map that showed locations of Wal-Mart stores from Ohio through Kentucky, Tennessee and into North and South Carolina, Vessels said.
Well, I said something three years ago that this reminded me of:
But Al Qaeda has not engaged in small attacks on US soil. It would not be difficult for a terrorist nut job to waltz into a Wal-Mart with an AK47 and a bomb strapped to his chest. Kill a few people and detonate the bomb when the cops arrive. If that occurred, people wouldn’t shop at Wal-Mart for months. It’d hurt us.
I’m wondering, though, if they were mapping out their resupply points. Or maybe Wal*Mart carries large volumes of the types of cell phones they were trading in. Or maybe they were buying up ammo or something, and spreading it around to not draw attention. No telling.
There is no telling but don’t dismiss this completely.
Update: Could be nothing to it. TVA comments that:
I would point out that I also own a map showing Wal-Mart locations. I bought it, of course, at Wal-Mart. I think they have some sort of publishing deal with Rand McNally and road atlases sold at Wal-Mart (at least the large bound ones I like to keep in the car) all come with Wal-Mart locations highlighted. I didn’t particularly care where the Wal-Marts were. I just needed to know how to navigate the interstates and backroads en route to my destination.
Ok, then.
August 10th, 2006 at 11:40 am
I got one of those Wal Mart atlases as well. And a K-Mart one too.
August 10th, 2006 at 11:51 am
BTW, it probably doesn’t mean anything, but 90 southeast of Columbus, GA is also 90 miles southeast of Fort Benning, GA-home of the US Army Infantry School and HQ of the Ranger Regiment.
I don’t think they’d be going after a military base, but it’s possible.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
Man, these terrorists got me bummed. I hear all news from England and I think “Three words: glass parking lot”. The only thing stopping me from saying it out loud is that I can’t remember if “parking lot” is one word or two.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
Two words: A lot where one parks.
Maybe it was just a group buy on cell phones or something and they managed to skim $11k. Isnt this the sort of entrepreneurism that we pride ourselves on?
August 10th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
I’ve thought about that terrorist scenario in which one or a few of them shoots up a popular shopping place. It would be a ploy which would not only instill great fear, but also I think our own government would become more aggressive in taking away more of our freedoms and particularly even more restrictive of our RIGHT to armed self-defense–except for themselves, of course.
Think about it! Our government is actually importing Islam, the very group from which terrorists come and among whom they find aid and comfort, while we are forced to trade liberty for security–which Thomas Jefferson and Franklin said resulted in neither.
August 10th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Buying ammo and spreading it around to not attract attention?
Just go to a gun show.
Wear an American flag T-shirt and talk about how much you hate terrorists for making Arabs look bad. You might even get a discount on your crate of ammo.
August 10th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
I friggin hate wal-mart. As long as nobody gets hurt, blow ’em up I say.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Wal-Mart is one of the places from which our sacraaficial money flows to our “strategic partners” in Beijing (ever how you spell it) according to those CFR-globalists who worship at the altar of the global economy.
August 12th, 2006 at 10:27 am
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