Goose Creek Suspects Indicted - One Facing Terrorism Charge

September 1, 2007

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Two Egyptian students at the University of South Florida who were arrested in South Carolina have been indicted on federal charges by a grand jury in Tampa for carrying explosives across states lines without permits.

One of the men also is charged with teaching the other how to use the material for violent reasons.

Twenty-four-year-old Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed faces terrorism charges for teaching and demonstrating how to use the explosives. In an official release from the Department of Justice, they said Mohamed “taught and demonstrated the making and use of an explosive and destructive device, with the intent that such information be used for an activity that constitutes a federal crime of violence.”

He and 21-year-old Youssef Samir Megahed were stopped for speeding in Goose Creek, on August 4th. They have been held in Berkeley County on state charges while the FBI investigated whether there was a terrorism link. The men had pipe bombs in their car near the Naval Weapons Station where enemy combatants have been held.

The indictment states that the two “did knowingly transport and cause to be transported in interstate commerce explosive materials.”

Mohamed, a civil engineering graduate student and teaching assistant at the University of South Florida, and Megahed, an engineering student are being held at the Berkeley County jail. Bond was set for Mohamed at $500,000 and $300,000 for Megahed.

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