Terror informant doesn't regret alerting police

ATLANTA - If Eunice Stone overhears terrorist threats, she says she&#39;ll call the police again - even if they&#39;re a hoax. <br> <br> ``I don&#39;t feel badly about what I&#39;ve done,&#39;&#39; the 44-year-old Cartersville woman said in an interview Saturday. <br> <br> Stone was eating with her 18-year-old son at a Shoney&#39;s restaurant in Calhoun on Thursday when she says she overheard three men talking about blowing up buildings and laughing about the Sept. 11 attacks. <br> <br> Her tip led authorities to issue an alert about a possible terrorist plot in the Miami area, and the men were eventually stopped early Friday after running through a toll booth near Naples, Fla. No explosives were found and investigators said their ``alarming&#39;&#39; comments may have just been a joke. <br> <br> Stone said she was sitting just a few feet from the men when she heard one say, ``They think they were sad on 9/11, wait until 9/13.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Stone said another commented, ``Do you think we have enough to bring it down?&#39;&#39; Another replied ``If we don&#39;t have enough to bring it down, I have contacts and we can get enough to bring it down.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> ``I am not a racist, and I am not ignorant,&#39;&#39; she said in Sunday&#39;s edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ``I was just trying to do what&#39;s best.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Ayman Gheith, 27, Kambiz Butt, 25, both from suburban Chicago, and Omar Choudhary, 23, of Independence, Mo., were on their way from Chicago to a South Florida hospital for a nine-week training program. They said they had completed medical training at Ross University in the Caribbean island nation of Dominica and wanted to find an apartment in Miami. <br> <br> Stone, a 44-year-old nurse, is a local hero among residents who say she should be praised for staying alert to threats. <br> <br> ``Making fun of Sept. 11 nobody should do that,&#39;&#39; said Stone. <br> <br> Asked by the Atlanta newspaper what she would say to the men, Stone said, ``I would say they have the world by the tail. They&#39;re young. They&#39;re going to be doctors. Why mess it up? Why say something like that, even if it was a joke?&#39;&#39; <br> <br> If the incident was a joke, authorities may have a hard time making a criminal case against the men, legal experts told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. <br> <br> ``The only state offense I can think of if the state could prove they intentionally spoke in such manner so other could hear is possibly reckless conduct, said Dan Summer, a former Hall County assistant district attorney. ``It&#39;s not a terroristic threat.&#39;&#39;