2 Fla. students charged with having incendiary device in S.C.

Bradenton.com & AP ^ | August 06, 2007 | BRUCE SMITH

[Baladas]

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. --Two Middle Eastern men arrested near a Navy base after police found a suspicious item in their car were charged Monday with possession of an incendiary device, authorities said.

A joint state-federal investigation was under way to see if there was any terrorism connection but no link had been found yet, said FBI spokeswoman Denise Taiste. The Navy base is the site of a brig where enemy combatants have been held.

Ahmed Abda Sherf Mohamed, 24, and Yousef Samir Megahed, 21, both students at the University of South Florida in Tampa, were being held Monday pending a bail hearing, Berkeley County Sheriff Wayne DeWitt said.

Mohamed is a native of Kuwait and Megahed is Egyptian, the sheriff said. Both are in the country legally, DeWitt said.

"They admitted to having what they said were fireworks. Based on the officer's judgment at hand, based on what he had seen, we judged it to be other than fireworks," DeWitt said.

The sheriff refused to say what was found in the car but said some items were being analyzed by the FBI. Taiste would not give any details on what was in the vehicle.

Ahmed Bedier, the executive director of a civil rights organization for Muslims in Tampa, criticized the arrest as racial profiling, an accusation South Carolina police refuted.

[Baladas]

Damn racial profiling getting in the way of Florida college students transporting bombs - wonder if this has anything to do with Islam?

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Once AGAIN....its in Florida! Yeesh...can’t these Islamofascists pick on another state? This is soooo embarrassing. What will I tell my friends up north now?

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

The Navy base is the site of a brig where enemy combatants have been held.

yeah....it is also munition dump:

Naval Weapons Station Charleston
2316 Red Bank Road
Goose Creek, SC 29445

Navy Munitions Command CONUS East Division Detachment Charleston

(843) 764-7621 / 7622

Navy Munitions Command CONUS East Division Detachment Charleston provides quality and responsive logistics, technical and material support to the fleet and other customers in the areas of combat subsystems, equipment, components and retail ammunition management; maintains and operates explosive ordnance storage facility, and performs other such functions and tasks as may be directed by higher authority.

Occupies 20 buildings, 50 magazines, seven above ground storage sites, six truck/rail barricade siding sites and one suspected vehicle holding site

Storage capability of 61M lbs. net explosive weight

All worldwide ordnance transportation requirements for NWS and tenant activities, including The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina

USN mine warfare maintenance and storage

USMC MPFRON ordnance maintenance and transshipment

Only CONUS facility with unencumbered explosive arcs

US Army preposition ship logistics support

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center ordnance support

Employees: 1 Contractor; 39 Civilians; 1 Military
http://www.nwschs.navy.mil/AOC_factfile.htm

[Michael.SF.]

A joint state-federal investigation was under way to see if there was any terrorism connection

WTF?

Does not the act itself fall into the definition?

[TWohlford]

“What will I tell my friends up north now?”

Try this: “We caught ‘em!”

[tm61]

too bad they couldnt have been shot trying to enter the base. but then, I suppose the msm and CAIR would claim they were lost and looking for directions

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

LOL!!! Great response!!!
Ha...I get teased ever since the “chads” but I guess now the focus will be on Michigan and the Muzzies up there.

[Bladerunnuh]

"Officer, my friend, Mujibar and I, the prophet willing,were merely carrying fireworks"

[dead]

Students:

[TWohlford]

“Megahed, an Egyptian who has permanent resident status in the United States, is an undergraduate and has been at the university since 2004, but has not declared a major, Gullette said.”

Uh, after 3 full years, this guy still doesn’t have a major?

PAAAAAARRRTYYYYY!!!! I mean, isn’t this a joke out of “Animal House”??

[inkling]

Of course the FBI have found no links to terrorism.

"Keep moving, lookie-loos. Nothing to see here!"

[Grammy]

ping again

[rfp1234]

Megahed's father had no comments.

[Michael.SF.]

and claimed “racial profiling”

[Bladerunnuh]

"those aren't grenade lauchers, those are roman candles"

[Michael.SF.]

Both are in the country legally, DeWitt said.

Those rules needed to be changed ages ago.

[ChocChipCookie]

Again with the STUDENTS label! From the headline, which is what most people read anyway, it sounds like a couple of frat guys. I’m sure that couldn’t be further from the truth. There’s nothing innocent or naive about these two Muslim MEN.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It's not like it's hard to find out how to make this sort of stuff.

[rfp1234]

If convicted, the suspects face a possible penalty of 10 to 20 hours listening to....

[Major_Risktaker]

There’s nothing innocent or naive about these two Muslim MEN.

What did they have? The police are not telling us.

So these 2 muslim men are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Anything else is pure speculation on your part ChocChipCookie.

Typical Newspaper Story:

"They admitted to having what they said were fireworks. Based on the officer's judgment at hand, based on what he had seen, we judged it to be other than fireworks," DeWitt said.

The sheriff refused to say what was found in the car but said some items were being analyzed by the FBI. Taiste would not give any details on what was in the vehicle.