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Re: Three Texas Men With Cellphones Arrested on Terrorist Charges

Mr Joseph Singer (joeofseattle@yahoo.com)
Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:28:48 PDT

(Herb Oxley) Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:18:36 UTC wrote:

> My guess is the Feds think these guys were part of a conspiracy to
> acquire Tracfones to use in Iraq.

> Does anyone know whether Tracfone offers service in Iraq -- or is it
> fairly easy to load an "image" from an Iraqi cell provider onto them?

Well, if they did think that either the "terrorists" were stupid or the
Feds were stupid since TracFone won't work anywhere other than in North
America and only works where there's a compatible network none of which
are in Iraq or anywhere else in the Middle East, Asia or Europe for
that matter.

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: What you say is true, however the
phones could be used to make anonymous calls between 'terrorists' here
in the USA easily enough. So if 'sleeper cell A' needs to coordinate
its activities with 'sleeper cell B' or if either one of them need to
report to or get more instructions from terrorists in Iraq, that would
make the TracFones rather ideal, wouldn't it? PAT}

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