Update on Goose Creek; Jihadist Images Found

by Stephan Tawney on September 17, 2007

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Via Michelle Malkin. The Tampa Tribune has another update on the case at Goose Creek. On September 14, we learned that the two had allegedly made the bombs “to save one who wants to be a martyr for another battle”. Today we’re learning about a video found on the laptop, showing Ahmed Mohamed describing how to make a remote detonator.

A laptop computer deputies found when they pulled over two University of South Florida students in South Carolina contained a video made by one of the men showing how to use a toy to detonate a bomb remotely, a federal prosecutor said Friday.

On that video, the student, Ahmed Mohamed, said the detonator could “save one who wants to be a martyr for another day, another battle,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Hoffer said.

The prosecutor said that video was posted by Mohamed on YouTube, a popular Web site.

JihadTube. TTT also reports:

When investigators analyzed the computer, they found that the last-viewed images showed Qassam rockets, which are used by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Also on the computer were videos of discussions of martyrdom and videos showing the firing of M-16 rifles…In the trunk, deputies found four small sections of PVC pipe, at least three of which were stuffed with a “potassium nitrate explosive mixture” of potassium nitrate, Karo syrup and kitty litter, Hoffer said. He said the kitty litter served as a binder to keep the substance from coming out of the pipes, which were not capped.

Investigators also found a container of gasoline, 20 feet of safety fuse and an electric drill, which Hoffer said could be used to drill holes in the pipe so fuses could be attached.

“Obviously, that raised the hackles of law enforcement in South Carolina,” Hoffer said. “That’s why we’re here.”

And this is a jewel that will be used by the prosecution:

The prosecutor said that when deputies questioned Megahed, he initially denied knowing about “these rockets or fireworks in the trunk.” But when both defendants were put in the back seat of a patrol vehicle, their conversation in Arabic secretly was recorded, Hoffer said.

A translation summary of the recording shows Megahed asking about what happened to the explosives, Hoffer said, which the prosecutor said shows Megahed was aware of what was in the trunk. The car, Hoffer said, was registered to Megahed’s brother.

The father, who lives in Egypt, is calling this all a conspiracy against his son. Uh huh.



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