The man reportedly bought the phones from stores like Dollar General, Family Dollar and even Wal-Marts across the region.. In police reports he admits to a store manager the cell phones would eventually be used as bomb detonators in
Iraq...
"They had a gentleman trying to buy multiple phones and they've had some training from Homeland Security about multiple purchases and that if somebody were to try and buy more than the 2 phones allotted to notify law enforcement immediately," said
Chief Brian Frieda of the Muleshoe Police...
The suspect says he bought the phones to sell them to a man in Dallas named Jalel. He goes on to say, depending on the phone and the provider he makes between $3 and $8 per phone... Once he delivers the phones to Dallas, the man who buys them reportedly takes them apart...
Frieda added, "There are no laws prohibiting the person to buy 1 phone, 20 phones or a hundred phones for a period of time."
To say this story doesn't quite add up is an insult to math. Why, exactly, would insurgent types buy cell phones here in the U.S., and then ship 'em to Iraq to be used as bomb parts? Last time I checked, there are plenty of mobile phones floating around the Middle East.
