Posted on 09/14/2007 6:48:04 PM PDT by Starman417
TAMPA, Fla. -- A college student indicted on explosives charges may be released from custody on bond and under such conditions as 24-hour electronic monitoring, a judge ruled Friday at a hearing that also revealed details on the allegations.
Youssef Samir Megahed's entire immediate family must also surrender their passports, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Jenkins said after a hearing at which bond was set at $200,000.
It was not immediately clear how soon Megahed would be released. Members of his family, which attended Friday's hearing, declined to comment.
Megahed, 21, and Sherif Mohamed, 24, both students at the University of South Florida in Tampa, were indicted Aug. 31 on federal charges of transporting explosives across state lines. Mohamed also faces terrorism-related charges on suspicion of demonstrating how to use the explosives.
They were arrested on state charges of possession of an explosive device after an Aug. 5 traffic stop in South Carolina. The state charge was dropped after the federal indictment.
Prosecutor Jay Hoffer on Friday called Megahed "a significant danger to the community" and noted that if he were to flee to his home country of Egypt, it would be difficult to get him back.
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Can’t believe they’re releasing this guy.
I agree. I think he will take off.
But this is the same area that a jury walked Sammy Alrian.
Go figure.
My thoughts are: Once again they tested us and once again we failed the test.
But soon the testing will be over and the real thing will begin. Bodies and pieces of bodies will be flying.
These guys are soooo guilty.
Maybe they’re going to be tracking him?
What a joke. I'm sure this guy is pretty desperate. So he and his buddies smash the bracelet, jump in a car and they're gone.
True, he has no passport. But that hasn't stopped 12 million CRIMINAL aliens already in the country.
He is a serious flight risk and should be held in jail. Period.
“But that hasn’t stopped 12 million CRIMINAL aliens already in the country”
12 million?, maybe that was the number 15 years ago............
They should put tracking chips in ALL the enemy Muslim combatants and let them go. They would lead us to their snake pits.
“They should put tracking chips in ALL the enemy Muslim combatants and let them go.”
Can you be sure we haven’t done that very thing?
If we had, and they don’t know, then you wouldn’t either.
So, since......
Oh the ACLU, American Communist Lawyers Union, isn't gonna like that.
Tough Shiite.
“College student”?
Like the “college student” who ran over infidel students with an SUV?
The new details in this article erase whatever meager claim to innocent purpose these “students” had. Particularly, Megahed originally denied to the police any knowledge of the stuff that was in the trunk. So much for the two college boys off for a lark with their fireworks. Plus the recorded conversation in the patrol car where Megahed asks Mohammed what he’d told the police about the gas can (which he didn’t know was in there.)
We also learn that Mohammed admitted to making the internet video he had previously denied any connection wit—the one that shows how to turn a radio controlled ar into an explosive device.
Megahed?
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