Charleston Police Find Vehicle Loaded With Explosives

I do not know if they can search the trunk on a routine traffic stop lonevoice. I am sure the 4th Amendment comes in there somewhere. If they spotted something that was in plain sight that would give them probable cause to search the vehicle then maybe. Also, it is kind of suspicious that there were three cops on the traffic stop. Does not sound like a routine to me, sounds like they knew what they were looking for.

THANK YOU so much, Cindy, for updating this, and you, SJackson, for pinging me.

MS, I’ve often wondered about this story. Like so many others, they make headlines, then disappear down a memory hole. Thanks to freepers across the globe, we don’t have to depend on the MSM, we have people like Cindy to keep us on our toes!!!

You’re very welcome girlangler.

We’ll keep on the udpates until the incident/case is resolved.

How many times do I have to tell you racist, xenophobic neanderthal conservatives: those bombs were for peaceful purposes!!! sheesh.

ADDING links to post no. 321:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876505/posts?page=321#321

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Thanks to STARWISE for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003526/posts

“Translations Of Mohamed, Megahed Dialogue Released (Goose Creek case)”
TBO.COM ^ | 4-18-08 | Elaine Silvestrini
Posted on April 18, 2008 9:20:18 AM PDT by STARWISE

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April 16, 2008

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://tampa.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/terrorism041608.htm

MOHAMED AND MEGAHED CHARGED IN SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT
Mohamed Accused of Providing Material Support to Terrorism

FLORIDA - United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill today announced the filing of a seven count superseding indictment against AHMED ABDELLATIF SHERIF MOHAMED and YOUSSEF SAMIR MEGAHED. MOHAMED is charged in all seven counts of the superseding indictment. MEGAHED is charged in counts three and four of the superseding indictment(see chart below). A federal grand jury in Tampa returned that indictment on April 15, 2008. Both defendants reside in Tampa.

According to the indictment, the defendants were discovered near Goose Creek, South Carolina on August 4, 2007 in possession of explosive materials and a destructive device. The FBI later discovered an instructional video recording which defendant MOHAMED had distributed to the Internet on the making and use of a remote controlled detonation and ignition system.

The case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Joint Terrorism Task Force in Tampa, Florida and Charleston, South carolina. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Robert T. Monk and Jay L. Hoffer.

An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed a violation of the federal criminal laws, and every defendant is presumed innocent until, and unless, proven guilty.

Count Charge Maximum Term of Imprisonment

1 Proving material support to terrorism,
Title 18, United States Code, Section 2339A 15 years

2 Distributing information which teaches and demonstrates the making or use of explosives,
Title 18, United states Code, Section 842(p)(2)(A) 20 years

3 Transporting explosive materials in interstate commerce without the requisite federal license
Title 18, United States Code, Section 842(a)(3)(A) 10 years

4 Possession of a destructive device without the proper registration
Title 26, United States Code, Section 5861(d) 10 years

5 & 6 Illegal possession of a firearm by a non-immigrant alien, Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(5)(B) 10 years for each count

7 Carrying a destructive device during and in relation to a crime of violence,
Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c)(1)(A) Life

UPDATE:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2024913/posts?page=505#505

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021392.php

JIHAD WATCH.org (THE TAMPA TRIBUNE): “FLORIDA MUSLIM STUDENT TO PLEAD GUILTY TO AIDING JIHADISTS”
(June 13, 2008)

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021402.php

June 14, 2008

“Islamophobia? Ahmed Bedier throws Ahmed Mohamed under the bus”

http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/689

“Bedier Reaches New Low on USF Plea”

by IPT
IPT News
June 16, 2008

UPDATE:

June 18, 2008

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/June/08-nsd-544.html

Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed Pleads Guilty to Providing Material Support to Terrorists

Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill today announced that Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, a 26 year old resident of Tampa, has entered a guilty plea to Count One of the Superseding Indictment, in which he is charged with providing material support to terrorists. The maximum penalty defendant Mohamed faces is fifteen years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, and a three-year term of supervised release. A sentencing date has not be set.

According to the plea agreement and facts presented in Court today, on August 4, 2007, at about 5:30 P.M., Berkeley County (South Carolina) Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) deputies stopped a Toyota Camry for speeding in Goose Creek, South Carolina. Defendant Mohamed was driving the car.

During a consent search of the vehicle, authorities recovered from the trunk of the vehicle a number of items, including several sections of PVC pipe containing a potassium nitrate mixture compacted between plugs of kitty litter and approximately 20 feet of safety fuse. These materials, which constitute “explosive materials,” within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 842(a)(3)(A), had been transported by Defendant Mohamed from Florida. Also in the trunk of the Toyota Camry were separate containers filled with several gallons of gasoline and a potassium nitrate mixture.

Subsequent FBI analysis of Defendant Mohamed’s laptop computer recovered from the car disclosed a large number of file folders containing information relating to the manufacture and use of bombs, rockets, and other explosives, including several video recordings showing the use of such devices to attack and destroy manned United States military vehicles. The FBI analysis also disclosed the viewing history of the laptop computer prior to the time of the Goose Creek traffic stop. The last item played on the laptop computer, prior to the traffic stop, was a video recording relating to the use and firing of Qassam rockets in the Middle East.

Also on the hard drive of Mohamed’s laptop computer was an audio/video recording, approximately twelve minutes in length, produced by Defendant Mohamed. In that recording, Defendant Mohamed personally demonstrated and explained, in Arabic, how a remote-control toy car could be disassembled and how the components of its chassis could be rewired and converted into a detonator for an explosive device. Sometime in July 2007, Defendant Mohamed had uploaded the aforementioned twelve-minute audio/video recording to the YouTube website. The audio/video recording that Defendant Mohamed produced was thus made accessible for viewing by others, both in the United States and abroad, through the internet. The recording was accessed hundreds of times by other persons.

Following his arrest, Defendant Mohamed was interviewed and, among other matters, addressed the aforementioned audio/video recording. He stated that he filmed the video and then uploaded it onto YouTube. He stated that his purpose in producing the audio/video recording was to teach “martyrdoms” and “suiciders” how to save themselves so they could continue to fight the invaders. He said that he considered the United States military, and those fighting with the United States military in Arab countries, to be invaders. He said that he intended the technology demonstrated in his audio/video recording to be used against those who fight for the United States.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Joint Terrorist Task Force. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Jay L. Hoffer and Robert T. Monk.

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