Posted on 09/03/2007 12:43:50 PM PDT by Alouette
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. - In a jail chapel, with two renderings of the Last Supper overhead, the family of a 21-year-old University of South Florida student gathered around him Saturday. His father did most of the talking, as they delivered the bad news. â– The accusations that he and a fellow student had a pipe bomb in the trunk of their Toyota Camry as they drove near a Naval weapons station had turned into a federal indictment. Their hopes that state charges, filed by South Carolina authorities, would be dropped after a hearing this month were dashed. Instead, the two now face the likelihood they'll be held in federal custody without bail, their attorneys said.
Youssef Megahed's reaction was shock, and then despair, his family said. Sitting in solitary confinement, he's terrified of the warnings FBI agents have given him and his family - that he'll be held interminably in a military prison like Guantanamo Bay.
Adding to their anxiety was a quote in the Charleston newspaper Saturday from the local sheriff, predicting Megahed and fellow student Ahmed Mohamed soon will be moved from this jail in Berkeley County to the brig on the nearby Naval complex. The Megaheds know the brig is used to hold prisoners the president has deemed "enemy combatants."
Worse for Megahed's father, Samir, was the moment he was leaving and saw Mohamed talking to his own attorney. Mohamed, teary, had also just heard about the indictment.
He hugged and kissed Samir and asked him to deliver a message to his own father in Egypt: "Tell my father I am not going to meet him in this life again."
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I am guessing that these two kids are jewish?
Didn’t you read the article? They’re Amish.
LDS?
He hugged and kissed Samir and then hopped on a pig and headed off into the sunset.
I think the one guy’s name is Megadeath or something like that.
Hey it was just fireworks....
The boys were just blowing off a little steam, you know how stressful college can be.
Of course, wearing beards and having a burning in their eyes was not just the BEST disguise they could have adopted, either.
They are Eskimos whose homeland is being destroyed by Global Warming.
Ah, my bad.
You’re both wrong. They were “in a jail chapel, with two renderings of the Last Supper overhead”. They must be Christian.
“Wascally Wepublicans”?
I am sure that he was just pining for the fjords...
We need rage boy....
Along with cellphones and GPS devices. Heading for the Naval Weapons Center Charleston. Yeah; just peaceful students out for a drive. (sarcasm)
Three wifes? Come back, it is just a flesh wound...
Now we’re treacherously imprisoning muslim pipe-bombers stalking military bases, here in the homeland? Gosh, how low can we go...?
Yousef Samir
Ahmed Mohamed
Indicted USF Student has Terror Past in Egypt (In USA legally on student visa)
Posted by Stoat
On News/Activism 08/31/2007 4:13:21 PM PDT · 46 replies · 829+ views
IPT News ^ | August 31, 2007
South Florida Students Face Indictment for Carrying Explosives Across State Lines [Indicted]
Posted by STARWISE
On News/Activism 08/31/2007 10:31:06 AM PDT · 166 replies · 3,977+ views
FNC/AP ^ | 8-31-07
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