This is a subject we need to keep a close eye on! As well as the author of the blog, Mr.Eslocker. He seems to be a true investigate hound dog. Good find for the Ross Unit for sure.

Probably one of the best written article on the web today. Kudos to ABC for hiring such fine young tallent.

if the cell phones were really going to be used for nefarious purposes, these people would not be buying thousands and thousands of them. they would buy only the few phones that they needed for their plot, and would be undetectable.

someone's imagination is running wild.

1000 cell phones. That's at least $40,000 dollars worth. These little scumbags have no way of getting that kind of money legitimately.

We've got to require ID for these purchases, as well as ID for every resupply of minutes (or they will just buy old phones from losers on the street).

1000 phones could equal 1000 remotely detonated bombs, say in schools or crowed malls, etc.

Lets arrest everyone buying lighter fluid and now according to the DHS... water and gatorade. We keep looking for every excuse to demonize persons of Arabic descent and to make people acquiese to all our security paranoias.

I found this article fascinating and extremely well written.

I wish there were more articles as interesting as this one! This writer is predicting an issue that will surely be a much bigger story after it is too late. Mr. Eslocker should be promoted for his ability to sniff out a story before everyone else. And he's got a great look for television as well!

I live in Madrid and just recently bought a prepaid cell phone and no ids are required, as the article states.

You can pretty much go into any store and buy a phone with cash here.

This borders on ridiculous!

As I understand it they were buying Tracphones for $20 and selling them for $38. That does not make any sense to me at all. If there was a big market for these phones wouldn't whoever is buying them purchase from a wholeseller instead? If I could double my money that easily I would be cleaning Wal-Mart out of phones.

Hi I am law abiding resident of US with origin in Pakistan. I just want to make a correction that the people arrested in Michigan are not of Pakistani orgin. You can confirm with your sister organisation in Channel-7 in Detroit. Also your Headline news says Pakistani where as content says Mideastern.

Thanks and regards

Thanks

Pervaiz Khan

I think it is time to close the borders to all illegals until we get a handle on what is going on. It is time for us to treat illegals as we are treated in their countries when under suspicion. Why do we have to be so respectful all the time. It is highly unusual and unexplainable as to why these people need these cell phones. It has trouble written all over it. Lets crack down as a nation!

Did anyone think maybe they were taking pictures of something famous, because it's famous?
AND...
There's a flea market in Dallas (Grand Prairie to be precise) that's open all year round where people sell these cell phones at marked up prices to hispanics that have immigrated here that don't have documentation. We all know this happens in Dallas, that's why we're all so mad about immigration. Let these poor men come home, they're just trying to earn a living.

Racial profiling might not be a bad resolve after all!

Well, here they are in our own country.How can we not be suspicious of people who are Muslims?They can be anywhere near us!
I live in Ohio and it is truly frightening to know that these terrorists can be close by.I am sorry but I will be suspicious of every Muslim I meet in the street-I do not care if it is unfair and prejudiced!I want our citizens and country to be safe.

what a facinating and well written article
congratulations on hiring such a educated young journalist

For God's sake those poor men are just trying to make a living. I have yet to see anything illegal in what they were doing. If it was me I'd make sure I'd sue for discrimination cause they absolutely have nothing on those guys from what I can see.

Lisa, you cut off your nose to spite your face. What's the point of being suspicious of Muslims? I live in Virginia, one of the few places in the US that has been attacked by terrorists, and I am certainly not suspicious of "all Muslims." If you take a look at the security videos from 9/11, the terrorists did not look much different than anyone else, they were just Arabic. Did you not learn the lessons from the 1950s, that fruitless witch-hunts simply waste time and money, stress security personel, and wrongfully slander people's names. In the States we are lucky that the Muslim clerics have taken a hard stance against radicalized terrorists; in the UK, where I am currently vacationing, many Muslim leaders are in denial that there are any Muslim terrorists.

Meh....duh?? When you have numerous "teams" of middle easterners out buying thousands fo cell phones it's pretty easy to connect the dots. When these guys finally decide to hit the U.S., it's not going to be a couple of bombs here and there..you can bet it will be big...and furthermore...why would three guys from Dallas have to go all the way to Michigan to buy cell phone. There are plenty of Walmarts in the lone star state. I find it incredible that anyone would think all of these purchases are on the up and up...c'mon

Get real Andrew...