Middle Easterners Purchase Disposable Cell Phones in Bulk

This morning I read this article from yesterday's ABCNews and couldn't believe how they reported it. Here are the basics:

Federal agents have launched an investigation into a surge in the purchase of large quantities of disposable cell phones by individuals from the Middle East and Pakistan, ABC News has learned.

In one New Year's Eve transaction at a Target store in Hemet, Calif., 150 disposable tracfones were purchased. Suspicious store employees notified police, who called in the FBI, law enforcement sources said.

In an earlier incident, at a Wal-mart store in Midland, Texas, on December 18, six individuals [of Middle-Eastern origin] attempted to buy about 60 of the phones until store clerks became suspicious and notified the police. A Wal-mart spokesperson confirmed the incident.

Possible purchasers of disposable cellular phones could also include political extremists, terrorist supporters, sympathizers or others simply shaken by the recent revelations of the spy agency's widespread monitoring of calls, including calls to and from the United States to foreign countries. (emphasis added)

If we ever needed evidence of the mainstream media's complicity in damaging the war effort, this it. Maybe they're just stupid as a stump and don't realize the consequences of what they write, but if they are they don't deserve to be providing "news" to our nation. And if they're not stupid, then they're doing it on purpose and don't deserve to be providing "news" to our nation.

Here's a rough timeline that proves the point:

Early December 2005, the New York Times reports that the NSA is monitoring the phones of terrorists, including the phone calls made to or from the US by those terrorists' phones.

On December 17, 2005, President Bush admitted the NSA was indeed monitoring terrorist phones. (Note the anti-Bush wording in the CNN article's opening paragraph: "...President Bush took aim at the messenger Saturday...")

On December 18, 2005, six Middle Eastern-looking men in Midland, TX, attempted to purchase 60 disposable cell phones, but ran away without the phones when the police showed up.

In the ABCNews article about the disposable phone purchases, most of the speculation about the purchasers' purpose was about using the phones to blow things up, the way the Madrid train bombs were set off. It's as if they're intentionally being dense about this. But it couldn't be more obvious:

1) The New York Times tells the terrorists that the NSA knows their phone numbers and are listening.

2) The terrorists figure out how to get around our surveillance.

What other choice tidbits of classified information about the GWOT is the MSM sitting on while they wait for just the right moment to use it to damage the Bush administration? God forbid we find out the answer.