Allah, is that a pipe bomb in your turban, or are you just happy to see me?
Posted on 08/08/2007 12:57:30 PM PDT by bnelson44
Update: According to video top right here, the Feds have moved to put a hold on the SC suspects as regards their immigration status, which means even if they do make bond they would be transferred to Federal Prison instead of being released. Also, even if cleared of any current charges, they could be deported depending on the outcome of that process. Also court documents specifically state "several pipe bombs" were in the trunk of their vehicle.
While the FBI has now seized home computers and Wal-Mart security tape in the investigation into Yousseff Samir Megahed and Ahmed Abda Mohamed h/t Rusty, it seems one as yet unidentified roommate left the country on Monday, after the investigation had begun. It's unclear if the FBI has been able to identify the individual, or if they even want to talk to him in the case. I suspect they may, as he seems pivotal given this latest report.
Ishtay, who rents a Temple Terrace house and works at Boston Market, said he met Mohamed and Megahed through a roommate. He said he didn't know the roommate's last name, but he was from Mauritania.
Another of Ishtay's roommates, Ghassan Salhab, 27, said the man from Mauritania moved here from Canada recently and returned there Monday.
Meanwhile, another spokesperson has emerged for the boys. M. Nachabe, who would appear to be Mahmood Nachabe. In perhaps an unfortunate coincidence, Nachabe has the distinction of being listed in the same Engineering College Faculty catalog as the now infamous Sami al-Arian.
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What I don’t understand was the urgency in destroying the evidence by the local police. I’m sure they took plenty of photos, though... I hope.
What does that mean? I am not following you there.
After the doctors suicide attempt in Glagow and with our borders still wide open seems logical to attampt to assemble such a device.....there was also a comment from a Border Patrol that a couple of times his radiation monitor indicated but no follow up.
Mysterious roommates who suddenly skip the country and whose last name you don't know...naw, move along. Nothing to see here...
PBS had a film on the WWII urnanium project...covered it well...the trick is to bring 2 (or more) subcritical lumps together rapidly....done with a shaped charge on two hemispheres of uranium.
Thanks to both of you for the pings on this. I have been at my Mom’s for two days (no internet access) and missed everything on this, so was so happy to get your pings today. Trying to catch up on email, pings, and watering my many flowers, veggies in garden.
Keep cool Grammy, it’s hot here.
I had a gut feeling there was more to this story, and was screaming at Mom’s TV yesterday about it. Why hasn’t ANY reporter asked this question: How far away is the route near the naval base these guys took from a practical one to get to their “supposed” destination? Don’t know much about that area but that should be asked.
What was described in the newspapers and what Freepers seem to have determined was that they had something that would not have been lethal in itself but was possibly a smoke bomb designed to create a distraction. It is possible that it was a triggering device for something else, but if the press reports were correct, their device was not extremely powerful. I have no idea what is necessary for uranium detonation and I know nothing about explosives in general, btw, and I am just summarizing what more knowledgeable people here have said.
They were caught fleeing from a military facility (which is why they were speeding - they obviously didn’t realize the entry would be guarded and they turned around and fled when they realized they’d been spotted).
I know the area slightly and it’s very wooded and secluded. There was no way they were there by accident.
I think these dumb jihadi bums - who had obviously been told to smile and look “cute” (difficult if you look like a Neanderthal, as they do) in their mugshots - really thought they were going to be able to take out an entrance to a secure facility and release some high profile Muslim prisoner being held there. I don’t know who that would be, but they probably do.
I suspect there were probably other people working with them, or at any rate, they thought there would be other people out there in the woods, and perhaps these people had already been caught or had simply never showed up. I don’t know, but whatever it is they were up to, I hope we deport them yesterday.
Deporting is better than trying them, because it gives the press less of a chance to get into action and defend them as poor, misunderstood “youths” simply engaging in the colorful native customs of their people...
It’s not totally clear that the guy was referring to his OWN roommate, rather that to a roommate of Mohamed’s. But to play devil’s advocate, college student living arrangements are often a bit chaotic, with people crashing here and there on a short term basis, and some overlap around beginning and end of summer and winter break, as residents of a house are arriving/leaving. I clearly recall a portion of a summer where I rented a room in a house where several students lived and each dealt directly with the landlord. I don’t think I knew the FIRST names of any of the other students in the house, much less their last names.
In addition, I’ve been renting rooms in my home to college students (of a rather different sort than M & M) and I had a lovely, very responsible young lady there last year who didn’t quite have the first name of the other young lady right, and I seriously doubt she knew her last name. Young lady number one was very busy, econ major, physics minor, working a lot of hours at a campus job, spent most weekends at her boyfriend’s apartment and all vacations with relatives a few hours away. Couldn’t have asked for a better renter, but hanging out with roommates wasn’t what her life was about — she was pretty serious about her goals in life, which may have been driven partly by the fact that her family’s home in New Orleans was destroyed in Katrina.
All that said, I don’t recall a single college roommate I had whose name I would have “remembered” when asked by a journalist covering a high profile investigation into something I didn’t have any reason to think the roommate was involved in. I just didn’t hate any of my roommates that much :-)
Unfortunately for us, Bush and Rice aren’t the only ones living in make believe land.
Sounds like they were lost, and turned around quick when they found themselves aiming into a military facility. But IF they are actually jihadists of some sort, I wouldn’t want them deported because they could then continue their jihading activities. I think they’re probably just stupid kids, but even if they are, they did break the law, and they are foreign nationals from Arab countries, so they should be tried.
They were not fleeing a military facility. Nor is the area they were stopped in heavily wooded. I am extremely familiar with the area. A huge shopping area and numerous housing developments are in the area. 176 is heavily traveled. It is a link from the upstate to 126 and I526 and 17 South and North.
There was a road block set up earlier in the day. How do I know? Well, because we went through it on the way to my cousin’s house at Old Mt Holly Road. They set these things up everywhere to check licenses and insurance, etc.
Megahed is a permanent legal resident and doesn’t need to be taking any classes at all to maintain his status. Mohamed is carrying a normal full time load for the summer (6 credits = two full length courses, each crammed into one of a pair of short summer sessions — 5-6 weeks each at most schools). Very few grad students would be carrying more than that.
They were not anywhere near the entrance to the Wpnsta.
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I don’t favor deportation for terrorists. If an American did this, it would be treason, even if our officials refuse to acknowledge it. And to release an enemy during war, so they can strike again, seems counterproductive.
Okay, I’m not familiar with the area. Just going by what another poster said. I think the speculation here is getting ridiculous. Authorities say they had pipe bombs that sounded like a firecracker when detonated, and now we’ve got FReepers suggesting they were planning to “take out” the entrance to a secure facility to get somebody out, and suggesting the pipe bombs were “shape charges” to be used to detonate uranium!
I thought they were on one of the smaller roads leading off the main road? I got lost there once and did end up at a heavily guarded military facility out in the woods. Of course it was daylight and we were legitimately looking for a rural property address. It was pretty freaky, but we just waved, turned around and drove away.
Interesting that the police had a roadblock set up. The first reports mentioned that they had been apprehended in the course of an “investigation in another jurisdiction.” Later reports said they were speeding (which CAIR seems to believe) and were arrested on a road leading away from one of the military bases or other facilities around there.
I guess we’ll probably never know - I don’t care, personally, but I do think that we should at least be informed enough to keep us on our toes and vigilant.
The Muslims are definitely trying to stage another attack, but so far, they seem to have been too dumb or amateurish to carry it off. AQ announced about a year ago (after several cells were broken up) that it was going to a freelance jihadi model, but fortunately it sounds as if this was a mistake.
“OK show of hands here - how many people that had roommates in their lifetimes did not know there name?”
I had a girl friend of several years, that lived with me in both California and Texas, I never learned her last name, so now I can’t look her up again.
Allah, is that a pipe bomb in your turban, or are you just happy to see me?
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