Posted on 10/01/2007 10:09:04 AM PDT by khnyny
MIAMI -- On a video posted to YouTube.com this summer, a man speaking Egyptian-accented Arabic instructed viewers how to convert a remote-controlled toy car into a bomb detonator.
The 12-minute lesson was referenced on the popular video-sharing Web site under the search terms "detonator from a distance," "suiciders" and "martyrdoms."
A detonator could "save one who wants to be a martyr for another day, another battle," the man told viewers, according to federal prosecutors.
Last month, authorities identified the instructor as Mohamed Ahmed, 24, a graduate engineering student at the University of South Florida. An Egyptian national, he'd been stopped for speeding in South Carolina on Aug. 4, then arrested with a fellow student for allegedly carrying four pipe bombs in the trunk.
Now as the criminal prosecution continues, questions remain not only about the men's intentions but also about the way the popular video-sharing Web site may have been used to spread bomb-building know-how.
Representatives of YouTube declined to answer questions last week regarding their handling of the detonator video.
They offered instead a generic statement, saying that videos are removed once viewers flag them as inappropriate and the company determines that they violate its standards.
The company would not say how long the detonator video was available on the site; how many times, if any, it was viewed; or whether the company took it down as part of normal policing based on viewer tips or whether it was removed at the FBI's request.
The incident comes amid growing questions regarding what role a company such as YouTube has in controlling its content.
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Suddenly, a statement has been issued, today, prohibiting these types of "toys" in carryon luggage. I don't know about you 'all, but I would have hoped the TSA, etc., would have figured this out before they had to see it on youtube. Unbelievable.
That university seems to keep popping up in terrorism related stories.
>> a graduate engineering student at the University of South Florida
Yet another Sami Al-Arian disciple....
Generally taking advice on the assembly of explosives from amateur enthusiasts carries with it its own inherent corrective. It surprises me very little that these clowns were caught with pipe bombs. What does surprise me is that they still had all their limbs at the time.
No doubt a coincidence (not), Fox is reporting:
TSA: Expect Extra Screenings of Remote-Control Toys in Carry-On Luggage
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298745,00.html
isn’t part of the terrorists training to learn different ways to kill themselfs if they are caught?
... even how to choke to death on own handcuffs?
I think they are looking very hard for a big bang
Are you implying that the lady who died after her arrest in the Phoenix airport was a terrorist? I think you are mistaken - don’t try to muck up this important story with nonsense.
Yes, connect the dots. I’m sure there are more.
oh, I wasn’t trying to muck up anything, but if I did, you would have little to say about it
let me thrown in this too
in the last 24 hours;
fact: Pakistan WOMAN suicide bomber kills 14 and wounds 30 in Pakistan
fact: woman arrested at Logan choke herself to death on handcuffs lock around her wrists
fact: this story on RC toys comes out
Wondering if this university should be targeted by the feds?
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