Terrorists Indicted

They were NOT fireworks folks -- they were EXPLOSIVES: Egyptian students at the University of South Florida who were arrested in South Carolina have been indicted on federal charges for carrying explosives across states lines. Twenty-four-year-old Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed and 21-year-old Youssef Samir Megahed:

One of the men also is charged with teaching the other how to use the material for violent reasons.

Twenty-four-year-old Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed faces terrorism charges for teaching and demonstrating how to use the explosives.

He and 21-year-old Youssef Samir Megahed were stopped for speeding in Goose Creek on August 4th. Officers asked to search the vehicle, and discovered the suspicious items located in the trunk. The suspects had admitted to having what they termed "fireworks" in the car.

Officers say the two had a pipe bomb in the trunk of the car, as well as materials to make pipe bombs. (MORE)

Breaking News via Debbie Schlussel, hat tip Michael.

More:

Mohamed was charged with distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction, which is a terrorism statute, a Justice Department official said. The crime faces a maximum of 20 years in prison.

Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 24, an engineering graduate student and teaching assistant at the Tampa-based university, faces terrorism charges for teaching and demonstrating how to use the explosives.< (Forbes)/blockquote>

The Grand Jury wants DNA, wonder what that's about?:

A federal grand jury has ordered a University of South Florida student accused of transporting explosives near a South Carolina naval base to supply DNA and hair samples, according to his attorney. (more)

DNA from only one of the two indicted:

The grand jury has asked for DNA and hair samples from one of the students, Youssef Megahed, according to his attorney, Andrew Savage. (more)

Comments

[Debbie]

Little Fox: A dead terrorist can't commit any more crimes against innocent people. Just a thought!

[Little Fox]

A MAXIMUM 20 years???!!! A MAXIMUM??? This country is going to the dogs. If we can't lock up these two for a MINIMUM 50 years we are headed for total disaster. Does the justice department think that in 20 years these idiots will have lost the will to kill Americans?

God I wish I was in control. I'd hang them from lamp posts in the town square.

Instead, Larry Craig will suffer greater consequences than these two death lovers.

great.

[Debbie]

Paladin: You got that right, CNN, I love your version. They are not interested, it doesn't fit their "they were such good boys" routine.

Rastaman: Go for it.

Flanders Fields: Thanks for the mention, always appreciated.

Phil: You said it, that's exactly what the family and MSM said when they were first arrested.

Roger W. Gardner: That sounds like the MSM. Those innocent students, just driving around a Navy Base, which happens to house terrorists, with explosives in their car. Nothing to worry about.

[Rastaman]

Wow, good catch! I haven't gotten even a whisper of this off the MSM or even the minor stream media.

I gotta do a post on this!

Rasta

[PALADIN]

I HAVE,NT HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THIS ON THE M.S.N.!!!!! OH.......... I FORGOT , C.N.N. MEANS THE CALIPHATE NEWS NETWORK. WHAT WAS I THINKING??????????????????

[Roger W. Gardner]

I don't know whether you heard this or not, but on Fox tonight (8/31) the always confused and ever-fallible Sheppard Smith referred to this story as "those two college kids who were caught driving around in their car with explosives."
I don't know about you, but to me this sentence was just incredulous. It sounds like a couple of teenagers who got busted for having some weed in their car.

How about a little old-fashioned racial profiling, people? I mean, we're not being attacked by the Buddhists, or the Catholics or the Jews.

When the Hell are we going to wake up? What the Hell is is going to take? I grow increasingly afraid to answer my own question.

[Phil]

Hi Debbie,

Well if it is like Flanders says and we get one of those Liberal Judges I can just hear it already, "well these two were just carrying fireworks what's the harm in that case dismissed."

[Flanders Fields]

I have linked your post with a post, Debbie. I guess we are all surprised with this indictment!? Now, we just have to wait to see whether common sense or politically correct legalism prevails.