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Old 12-16-2015, 10:29 PM
 
Location: Living rent free in your head
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Originally Posted by ohhwanderlust View Post
That scares me too. I'm Israeli and have lived in the US almost all my life, but of course all I need is some angry drunk inbred taking one look at me, concluding that I "obviously" came from a place with sand, and doing god knows what.
I understand your concern and I wish people would just take a deep breath and quit thinking that everyone with black hair and brown eyes is now a potential terrorist. Here's are some comments from a rather lengthy Snopes article about both the cell phones and the propane tanks.

Retired FBI agent Michael Tabman says it is up to law enforcement to investigate and try to connect the dots. “Certainly, we hear something about gas being stolen we worry about a potential bomb. The good news is this is probably not part of terrorist planning for a number of reasons,” Tabman told FOX 4’s Shannon O’Brien. “One is they wouldn't steal these items because they know that would attract law enforcement's attention. Also this would not be a tool of choice,” he continued.

On 11 December 2015, the Macon County Sheriff's Office published a Facebook post confirming that the cell phone purchases were unrelated to terrorism. According to that post, the "cell phones [were] not believed to be purchased for use in criminal activity," but rather "purchased in a region for a low price and shipped to another region and sold to the general population for a large profit":
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