Thread: Atty: Profiling led to explosives arrest

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Atty: Profiling led to explosives arrest

Fri Dec 21, 7:15 PM ET

TAMPA, Fla. - Evidence used to jail a college student on explosives charges should be thrown out because authorities racially profiled the man, his attorney argued in court documents filed Friday.
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Youssef Samir Megahed, 21, was a passenger in a car with a fellow University of South Florida student when they were stopped for speeding near a Charleston, S.C., Navy weapons station in August. Megahed's attorney contends both men, who are of Egyptian descent, were further detained and illegally searched based on "racial profiling."

Authorities said they found ammunition and materials to make pipe bombs in the students' car.

Deputies referred to Megahed and Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed in radio communications as members of the "Taliban" and "graduates of suicide bomber school," Megahed's attorney wrote.

The motion states that some of the remarks were made by Berkeley County Deputy Lamar Blakely, who found much of the evidence that is the basis of the government's case.

Blakely had no right to detain the men after determining that both had valid identification and no outstanding warrants, according to the court documents. Instead, he was acting on a "racist premise," wrote James W. Smith III, an assistant federal public defender.

Blakely could not be reached by telephone for comment at the sheriff's office on Friday afternoon.

Federal prosecutors have presented no evidence indicating that the men planned an attack. The students claimed they were on a sightseeing trip to Carolina beaches.

Mohamed, 26, also faces terrorism-related charges for allegedly making and posting on the Internet a video demonstrating how to convert a remote-control toy into a detonator for a bomb.

Both have pleaded not guilty and are being held without bond.


I'd say it was more of an EXPLOSIVE arrest. I wonder which city they would have targeted?

Police have a legal right to search your car if they suspect you are not being honest with them especially after 9/11.Even if it is a profiling case so what !

Americans are not in any mood to worry about possible profiling when it comes to terroists.

These guys had material to make bombs and were caught near a Navy weapons depot and one of them did a video on how to make a bomb out of a toy. Give Me A Break !

I hope after they serve their time they are deported too.

If they were speeding. They have a right to search the car. They broke the law. They have had alcohol in the car. We don't know the whole story but if they don't have a real defense it's always the excuse of "racial profiling."

Egyptian students attending college in Fl caught near SC Navy weapons station with ammunition and materials to make pipe bombs in the their car. Mohamed, 26, also faces terrorism-related charges for allegedly making and posting on the Internet a video demonstrating how to convert a remote-control toy into a detonator for a bomb.

1. What does it take for American to wake up and quit educating aliens who use their education to make weapons against us.

2. We are aiding and abetting terrorist aliens entry into this country with student visas. (Assuming they were here legally.) What type of background check is done before granting a student visa?

3. Is the public defender going to dismiss the internet detonator instructions as a 'hobby'?

4. The two "innocent" college students just wanted to see what a weapons station looked like.

'Racial Profiling' are two mere words used to defend those who wish to do us harm. I suggest to James W. Smith III, assistant federal public defender, the police were acting on "instinct"--prove "instinct" as racially motativated Mr. Smith.

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