Illegal resale of phones: yeah, probably.
Terrorist detonators: no way, Jose.
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Tim Nausler with the Michigan State Police bomb squad says this has all the tell tale signs of using cell phones to detonate bombs. He says you need two phones to detonate a bomb one to be with the explosive and the other to make the call to that phone. In some instances he says you can detonate with one phone using the alarm clock function.
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This is the part of the article that really doesn't fit with the facts.
1) Everyone knew who bought the phones. If you're going to use phones for detonators, you need cloned numbers that have been aquired on the 'black market' (or from a dishonest kid and a cell phone kiosk in the mall).
2) Of course you need two phones for a phone detyonated bomb. That's like saying in order to contact someone over a long distance needs at least two phones. Someone is trying to sound like and expert, but is sounding more like Captian Obvious.
3) Fearmongering much? If arabs are doing anything that can loosely be tied by a psudo-expert or news agency to some sort of hypothetical terrorist act, then we are expected to go into a frenzy. The thing is, it's not 2002 anymore. Those who try to use fear on the news are seeing their credibility dwindle towards that of a tabloid journalist or republican president.