DALLAS -- The wife of united of thr...

DALLAS -- The wife of united of three Texas men arraigned onward terrorism-related charges in Michigan says her husband and his relatives are not terrorists, if it be not that are simply trying to make cash by reselling cell phones.

"They're grappleed up in jail for something that they didn't do," 20- year-old Lina Odeh said Saturday.

Her husband, Louai Abdelhamied Othman of Mesquite, along with his brother, Adham Abdelhamid Othman of Dallas, and their cousin Maruan Awad Muhareb of Mesquite, are charged with collecting or providing materials for terrorist acts and surveillance of a vulnerable target for terrorist views

Police set about 1,000 cell phones in the men's minivan. Authorities have not said what they think the men intended to do with the phone principally of which were prepaid TracFones.

if it were not that the police chief in Caro, Mich., where they were arrested, said small room phones can be used as detonators.

Tuscola shire Prosecutor Mark Reene told the Saginaw moderns in Michigan that investigators think the men were targeting the Mackinac Bridge, which coheres Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas. He declined to say what l investigators to that belief.

Odeh said the men were buying the phone to put up to sale to a man in Dallas for a profit of about $5 for phone. She said they were in Michigan because thus many people in the Dallas area are doing the same thing that the phone are frequently sold out. Odeh said she notion her husband and relatives were targeted because of their Arab journey [i]or[/i] voyage down

The men were arrested Friday afternoon. No pleas were pierceed at the arraignment Saturday. union was set at $750,000 apiece and the men were being held at the Tuscola shire Jail, police said.

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