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To: Cindy
Prosecutors balk a information request in USF explosives case

Federal prosecutors say they shouldn't have to give defense attorneys more information about a terrorism charge against a former University of South Florida student.

Attorneys for Ahmed Mohamed have filed a motion asking a judge to order the prosecution to specify what terrorists stood to benefit from a video Mohamed is accused of making and posting on the Web site YouTube. The defense also asked in the motion — known in legal parlance as a request for a bill of particulars — for specific information about the intended victims.

In the video, the prosecution says, Mohamed demonstrates how to use a remote-controlled toy to detonate a bomb. As a result, Mohamed was charged with trying to help terrorists by teaching or demonstrating the use of explosives.

Mohamed is also charged, along with fellow Egyptian citizen Youssef Megahed, with illegally transporting explosives. The pair were arrested Aug. 4 in South Carolina after deputies there said they found explosive devices in the trunk of their car. The defense maintains the devices were homemade fireworks.

664 posted on 03/18/2008 11:30:19 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Attorneys for Ahmed Mohamed have filed a motion asking a judge to order the prosecution to specify what terrorists stood to benefit from a video Mohamed is accused of making and posting on the Web site YouTube. The defense also asked in the motion — known in legal parlance as a request for a bill of particulars — for specific information about the intended victims.”

OPINION:

Thanks MamaDearest.

It seems to me the attorneys are on a fishing trip — and possibly out on a limb.


665 posted on 03/18/2008 11:40:28 PM PDT by Cindy
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and more court jestering...

UPDATE:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/462928.html

“Military judge rules for driver’s defense”
Posted on Wed, Mar. 19, 2008
BY CAROL ROSENBERG

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “For a third time, a military judge has authorized lawyers for Osama bin Laden’s driver to send questions to alleged al Qaeda kingpins in segregation at Guantánamo.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Specifically, Allred authorized the lawyers to ask reputed mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed whether the driver was a part of the 9/11 suicide plot and other al Qaeda attacks.

‘The issue of whether the accused was `merely a driver,’ or knew the unlawful purpose and was actively engaged in the unlawful work of al Qaeda seems to be very much at issue,’’ Allred wrote in the four-page ruling, dated Friday.

The Pentagon made it public on Wednesday, intact, with no portions blacked out. Earlier judges’ rulings have been censored.”


705 posted on 03/19/2008 3:09:23 PM PDT by Cindy
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