[STARWISE]

Make sure to go to the very bottom of the linked page to see the video reported in the article .. here:

"Video On-Demand:

"See the jail video of Yahia Megahed waiting to talk to his brother. U.S. prosecutors say the facial gestures and hand signals he makes are some coded language, but defense lawyers point out the other end of the video link had no one watching. Click the icon --> "

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Any ideas if his movements are codes?

[STARWISE]

Goose Creek ~~PING!

[weegee]

CAIR originally defended these yoots but later distanced themselves. Does CAIR have a revised position yet?

[upchuck]

South Carolina Ping

Add me to the list. / Remove me from the list.

[DocRock]

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[Seruzawa]

Why would anyone even consider bond for this? Too bad they didn’t catch him smuggling unstamped cigarettes. Or maybe conspiring to send Bibles to Saudi Arabia. Then they’d throw the book at him! No Federal judge would consider bond for that.

[Red Badger]

Megahed in jail.........yep, the jokes just write themselves.......

[Between the Lines]

Part of that bail agreement mandates Megahed, an Egyptian national, surrender his passport and agree to wear a monitoring device.

How about we attach a bomb with that monitoring device, just in case.

[mbraynard]

I'm not sure if there really is something here, but the prosecutors are clearly stupid.

The 'codes' are American sign language. I'm having a little trouble interpreting it by looking at a code sheet but the procecution (or the defense for that matter) ought to be able to interpret it. Otherwise he is just making faces.

Why didn't the prosecutors recognize this immediately asking about purchasing firearms but also gun cleaning equipment?

And where are the photographs of the explosives that were in the trunk?

I hope this is not going to be another nifong situation.

[tutstar]

ping...

[buckleyfan]

Serious story. THese guys should NOT be let out of jail.

However, I have to just mention that while skimming the threads, I thought this said “Megadeth”.. I thought there might be some latest news on the heavy metal band :)

[rogue yam]

U.S. prosecutors filed appeal following a federal magistrate judge allowed Youseff Samir Megahed, 21, to be released on $200,000 bond.

This is the second sentence of the article and the linchpin of the whole report and it is entirely ungrammatical. Lame.

[SauronOfMordor]

He's definitively using sign language. My daughter at one point was learning American Sign Language that the deaf use, and the signs are very familiar looking. It might not be ASL, but it's some message

And it doesn't matter if his brother wasn't able to see him during the interview -- the video broadcast to the world now has the brother being able to see the message

[PGalt]

BTTT!

[NonLinear]

The hand gestures are spelling from the hand alphabet for the deaf. I’ve got to see it a few times to get the actual words, but I recognize several letters.