Three Arab-American men are scheduled to be arranged today in Caro on terrorism charges after they purchased 80 cell phones from a Wal-Mart store in Michigan's thumb area.

The men face felony charges of obtaining information of a vulnerable target for the purposes of terrorism and soliciting or providing material support for terrorism, police said.

At about 1:50 a.m. Friday, the Palestinian-American men bought the Nokia TracFones from the Wal-Mart store in Caro.

"This aroused the suspicion of a clerk, who called the local police department,'' said Caro Police Sgt. Dale Stevenson.

The men were from Texas, ages 19, 22, and 23, Stevenson said. They told police they were buying the phones to sell them to another man, who might then send them overseas.

Police were concerned about possible terrorism links, Stevenson said. TracFones are often not traceable. The FBI has interviewed the men, who have not been charged with any crime.

Police found an additional 1,000 cell phones in the vehicle of the men. They also had a bag of receipts indicating they had bought cell phones in Wisconsin the day before.

The Wal-Mart store had a policy of selling only three TracFones at a time, Caro police said.

But the men convinced the clerk to ring up the 80 phones three at a time, thus avoiding detection, police said. Normally, the cash register red-flags the store if someone tries to buy four or more of them.

The suspects paid for all of the phones with cash and $100 bills.

After police stopped the men, they found the phones in the van they were driving. The chargers for many of them had been thrown away. That indicated they may have been planned for use overseas, where the phones would use different electrical systems, police said.

There were several boxes of cell phones inside their van, about 120 in each of the boxes.

In recent months, federal law enforcement officials have been concerned about suspicious men buying large numbers of cell phones and have alerted local police about it.

Earlier in the week, prosecutors in Ohio charged two 20-year-old Dearborn men of Lebanese descent, Ali Houssaiky and Osama Abulhassan, with terrorism after they bought hundreds of cell phones. The family of Abulhassan released a statement Friday saying they were innocent men just trying to earn some money for college and were profiled because of their Arab ancestry.

Yes just innocent men that wanted to buy thousands of cellphones that are the primary detonation device in IED"S and other killing bombs.