Up Goose Creek (w/o a Paddle)
Michelle has a good round-up of the state of play in the case Ahmed and Youssef’s excellent adventure:
One suspended University of South Florida student pleaded not guilty Wednesday to illegally transporting explosives, while a second made plans to hire a prominent Tampa lawyer.
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Meanwhile, Fitzgibbons, a high-profile Tampa lawyer, asked for more time to enter Mohamed’s plea so he can finish arrangements with Egyptian Embassy officials hiring him to represent Mohamed.
Egypt’s concern for a national under suspicion is touching. Especially one so young at heart:
A federal indictment unsealed Aug. 31 charges engineering students Ahmed Mohamed, 26, and Youssef Megahed, 21, with transporting explosives without a permit and Mohamed with trying to help terrorists by teaching or demonstrating the use of explosives.
That charge stems from a video that Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Hoffer says Mohamed acknowledged posting to the YouTube Web site in which he shows how to turn a remote-controlled toy car into a bomb detonator. On the video, Mohamed says the detonator could “save one who wants to be a martyr for another day, another battle,” Hoffer said.
Hence the TSA’s recent directive to search all carry-on luggage for remote-controled devices.
Look people, if Mohammed Atta had lost his box-cutter through a hole in his pocket, we would have treated 9/11 as just another day. These Geese Crooks are easy to ridicule and forget—because they didn’t kill anybody. They wanted to, but Mohammed Atta was luckier. His dad beat good grooming into him.