*Possessed $11,000 in cash & a dozen pre-paid cellular telephones in their vehicle;

*The men admitted buying more than 600 phones in the last few weeks;

*The duo possessed a map marking various Wal-Mart locations from Dearborn, Michigan through Ohio and into North and South Carolina;

*Dearborn is home to a large Lebanese population, has been the site of Pro-Hezbollah rallies since the start of the war in the Middle East.



9 August 2006: For the last 18 months, investigators from the Northeast Intelligence Network have been actively informing the public, store-owners, managers and law enforcement about the nexus between the bulk purchases of pre-paid cellular telephones and international terrorism. (Background Article HERE). Extensive documentation has been provided to the subscribers of the HQ INTEL-ALERT Private Intelligence Report and summarized on this website about suspicious bulk purchases of the pre-paid cellular phones. More store owners and managers are becoming instrumental in assisting authorities by alerting them to these transactions, most which are made by Middle Eastern men espousing militant Islamic views. In many cases, subsequent investigations have found numerous suspects to have connections to known terrorists outside of the United States, and are themselves suspected of being part of a larger support network of Islamic terrorists operating inside the U.S. and Canada.

Today’s case involves two men identified as Osma Sabhi ABULHASSAN, 20, and Ali HOUSSAIKY, 20, both of Dearborn, Michigan; the men admitted purchasing more than 600 pre-paid cellular telephones in retail outlets in the Mid-Ohio Valley area within the last few weeks. When stopped by police in Marietta, Ohio on a traffic violation, officers found 12 pay-as-you-go cellular telephones and $11,000 in cash in their vehicle.

At approximately 2:00 p.m. yesterday, the Washington County Sheriff’s office was notified by employees at a Marietta, Ohio Radio Shack store. According to the employees, Abulhassan and Houssaiky were acting suspicious and that they refused to give their names when attempting to purchase nine of the phones.

Read the entire article at Northeast Intelligence Network.