usf bomb suspects: maybe not so innocent
timWe’ve been following the case of the USF students being held on federal terrorism charges, and it’s time for an update.
The feds are starting to release more information about the pair, and the news isn’t good. The St. Pete Times put it this way:
Pipes stuffed with fertilizer, Karo syrup and kitty litter. Bullets and fuses. A laptop with Internet searches about martyrdom, Hamas and Qassam rockets. Video instructions for turning a child’s toy into a detonator.
Even more troubling is a secret recording police made of the two as they sat in the back of a police cruiser, speaking Arabic and discussing the explosives they’d previously said they knew nothing about.
Of course, that information is almost certainly inadmissible, but it does give reason to suspect my previous assertions of the pair’s innocence were premature. Furthermore, that Mohamed had made a video showing how to create a remote-control bomb is almost certainly damning evidence.
Even CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has harsh words for Mohamed.
“It’s obvious there are two separate individuals with different charges and different allegations,” he said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the two individuals end up having separate cases altogether.”
He defended Megahed, saying it appeared he “just happened to be in the car.” But he had harsher words for Mohamed.
If he could talk to Mohamed, Bedier said, “I’d say, ‘Wake up!’ ”
I’ve been asked to comment to the federal judge regarding Megahed, though it’s not a subpoena, so I can refuse. I probably will. At the moment, he’s free on $200,000 bond, though still restricted to house arrest.
Mohamed is not so lucky, and at the moment, he’s looking less innocent by the day.
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September 19th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
From your previous post:
And yet you’re leaning toward refusing to comment to a federal judge?
Is there something I’m missing here?
September 19th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
With all the past problems with Sami and these two, I really hope people at my beloved USF wake up! There is a problem. People we are in a war where Islamic Facists want to kill us. They do not care what your beliefs are if you are an American or non-Muslim they want you dead. I sincerely hope that the press and the socialist ACLU will let the government present their case without jumping to conclusions.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:56 am
So now you think they are guilty? What happen to your early stance? I like Jeff am confused.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:33 am
It must be very difficult for a university professor to admit their judgement is severely impaired. Impaired to the point of knee-jerk support of a pair bent of aiding in the deaths of others, if not attempting to kill others themselves.
I can see why you would not want to appear in court and make that comment to a federal judge.
It must be difficult to learn that such a person was at your elbow, and common sense failed you.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Anonymous- These men (if guilty) are trained to fit in and not give anyone the sense of what they are up to. The men that carried out the 9/11 attacks walked amongst americans everyday until they carried out the attacks. All he said was he was not sure if he would send a character letter to the jusge, he could have many reasons why he would not want to, ask before you decide.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:55 am
The problem is not how terrorists are trained, but how we react when they are caught.
Knee-jerk support, before the facts are even released has the tendency to make a person’s judgement appear severly impaired.
The original posting and retraction are a case in point.
Credability has been lost.