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...melting pot of North African, Chinese and Indian immigrants, Zougam ran a locutorio, one of the popular shops where you can make cheap phone calls abroad. The owner of another locutorio says Zougam was an expert in "liberating" phones--altering handsets sold cheaply by service providers to take prepaid SIM, or internal identity, cards. Among Zougam's customers was Yarkas. According to the November 2001 indictment against Yarkas, police tapping his cell phone heard him tell other contacts that he was in "Jamal's telephone shop." In September 2001 Zougam called Yarkas to say he had just returned to Madrid...
...Spanish police reconnected with him through dumb luck. A bomb that didn't explode on March 11 was connected to a cell phone whose SIM card was tracked back to Zougam's shop. Spanish press reports say he purchased a whole box of them recently, along with 14 cell phones. In a thorough search of his shop, police reportedly found a piece of plastic broken from the casing of the cell phone found with the unexploded bomb...
...bombs took lives, though. Two similar devices were destroyed by police in controlled explosions. And thanks to a terrorist's mistake and a rescue worker's inadvertent discovery, the final bomb survived. It proved to be lucky 13 for the investigators. The Motorola handset and its internal identity, or SIM, card supplied the vital clues that led to the arrests on Saturday afternoon of five suspects--three Moroccans and two Indian nationals. The five were held in connection with illegal manipulation of the phone and its SIM card...
...Spanish citizens of Indian origin were also questioned by the police. According to a Spanish government official, at least two and possibly all four of the Indians ran a shop in Madrid where they sold--not always legally--prepaid SIM cards. Spanish defense analyst Rafael Bardaji suggests they may have been unwitting collaborators. "Perhaps the poor chaps were only the people who prepared the illegal phones," he says. "The question is, to whom did they sell the phones...
...JACK SIM, president of the Singapore Restroom Association, announcing a new five-star "Happy Toilet" rating campaign...