Texas plumber threatened over jihadis using his old truck

A Texas plumber is getting death threats after his old truck still bearing his name was tweeted on the front line by Islamic jihadists in Syria.

Mark Oberholtzers former Ford F-250 pickup truck, which now carries an anti-aircraft gun, was used in a propaganda stunt by Supporters of the Religion Front (Jabhat Ansar al-Deen) in the Syrian civil war.

Subsequently, his company, Mark-1 Plumbing the name emblazoned on the pickup truck in Syria has been bombarded with hate calls at its office in Texas City, Texas.

A few of the people are really ugly, he told theGalveston Daily News.People think you are aiding and abetting terrorists.We have a secretary here, shes scared to death. We all have families. We dont want no problems.

I just want it to go away, to tell you the truth, he said.

Oberholtzer has run the company for 32 years and said he took the truck to an AutoNation dealership three years ago. He believed that the company would remove the decal from the vehicle before sale.

They were supposed to have done it and it looks like they didnt do it, Oberholtzer told the Galveston Daily News. How it ended up in Syria, Ill never know.

Oberholtzer told CBS News that he had hired a lawyer to make Twitter remove the posting.

A spokesman for AutoNation told KHOU 11 News that the truck went to auction. It has probably had different owners since the auction before ending up in the hands of Islamic terrorists.

Jabhat Ansar al-Din wants to impose the rule of Sharia law but has maintained it is independent from ISIS and al Qaeda.

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Texas plumber threatened over jihadis using his old truck