Texas plumber has ‘no idea’ how ISIS militants ended up with his old truck

Posted by Alec Cope | Dec 19, 2014 |

By David Ferguson
Raw Story

Texas plumber says he has no idea how his old company truck ended up in a jihadi photo from the front lines of the war in Syria produced by the militant group ISIS.

The New York Daily News reported that Mark Oberholtzer of Texas City traded the company car in at a dealership in 2013 and hadn’t thought of it since.

On Monday, however, the Ansar al-Deen Front, a Syrian militant group, posted a photo featuring the black Ford F-250 pickup with an anti-aircraft gun mounted on the truck bed and the logo of Oberholtzer’s Mark-1 Plumbing Company and contact information emblazoned on the doors.

Shortly thereafter, Oberholtzer told the Galveston Daily News, the hate mail and death threats started pouring in.

The business has received thousands of calls, faxes and emails, he said, some very disturbing.

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