Posted on 08/05/2007 5:22:56 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Goose Creek - Two men are being held in the Berkeley County Detention Center after police find explosive making devices in their car. There are conflicting reports as to the quantity of explosive making materials in that vehicle.
FBI (website) reports are saying that there is not believed to be a link to terrorism. The men 21-year-old Yousef Megahed and 24-year-old Ahmed Mohamed (seen in the video attachment) were pulled over Saturday evening during a routine traffic stop near Myers Road and Highway 176. Among the explosive devices found were igniters and fusers.
Few details about the suspects are known at this time. They are believed to be students at a Florida college. They are of Middle Eastern descent and are not US citizens. Neither man has been charged, but charges are expected Monday.
A press conference will be held in Berkeley County on Monday morning. Among the potential charges is possession of unlawful explosives.
Officials are not at this time releasing any additional information. Highway 176 in Goose Creek was shut down and has since reopened. Stay tuned to ABC News 4 and www.abcnews4.comfor details as they become available.
Thanks for the ping nicmarlo.
This might turn out to be interesting.
Time will tell.
I am nonplussed that they think we’re this stupid about this being an innocent escapade with firecrackers, or something equally “innocent.”
Give me a break!
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I think the laptop may be interesting.
Ah. Some new information? .....on this thread?
I haven’t been online all day. Ty.
Just saw post #49 “Officers became suspicious when they were trying to hide a laptop.”
I missed that one, somehow, last night. (good grief)
Yep...that should prove to have something on it...I doubt they could erase everything from it before it was nabbed...
Since that happened I have had this sneaking suspicion that such incidents are part of an orchestrated plan to defeat our security measures by turning our own legal system against our security system. Launch enough law suits and target them broadly enough, and the public as well as the TSA will be more afraid of getting sued (or even arrested) than they will be of allowing suspicious middle easterners on airplanes. We can stop potential hijackers if we have enough eyes watching for the right clues. If the potential hijackers can scare away enough watchful eyes, on the other hand, then their odds of succeeding go way up.
I haven’t decided whether the CAIR people are co-conspirators or just useful idiots.
Excuse me, I seem to have misplaced my tinfoil hat, so I must go . . .
Yes.
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