Friday, June 13, 2008

USF Student Pleads Guilty to Supporting Terrorists

University of South Florida student Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed entered a guilty plea to terror-related charges today.
Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed entered a plea agreement Friday.

In the court document, he admits to providing material to support terrorists. He also acknowledges that a YouTube video he produced was to be used in "preparation for or in carrying out the killing of employees of the United States," including uniformed personnel.

Mohamed and Youssef Megahed were arrested August 4, 2007, in Goose Creek, South Carolina after a traffic stop. Authorities recovered a number of items from the car which constituted explosive materials.

Megahed remains in custody.
Why, all time time the unindicted Hamas co-conspirators from CAIR told us these little darlings were simply carrying fireworks in their trunk.

More here.
"This plea agreement was at the request of our client after a very long and agonizing decision by both him and his family, and it was his decision to resolve this matter through this plea," said Linda Moreno, one of Mohamed's defense attorneys.

Mohamed was arrested Aug. 4 near Goose Creek, S.C., with Youssef Megahed, 22, another former USF student. A sheriff's deputy stopped the men for speeding and searched their car when he became suspicious. He found what prosecutors said were low-grade explosives in the trunk.

A federal grand jury in Tampa indicted both men for illegally transporting explosive material across state lines. Mohamed faced additional, more serious, charges that included accusations of violating his student visa by possessing a firearm, demonstrating how to make an explosive device through a YouTube video and providing material support to terrorists.
CAIR, of course, cast them as victims.
The Times quoted Bedier the civil rights activist Monday and Tuesday on the case of two University of South Florida students accused of carrying explosives over state lines. Since their arrest following a traffic stop near Goose Creek, S.C. last August, Bedier cast Youssef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed as naïve kids victimized by racial profiling.
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