Goose Creek Two update: Judge denies Megahed bail request
Doing the jihad case monitoring the national MSM won’t do, here’s the latest on the Goose Creek Two. On Friday, Judge Steven D. Merryday denied Goose Creek jihadi suspect Youssef Megahed’s bid for bail. He called him a flight risk and said he posed a danger to the community (hat tip: reader Lynne S.):
A University of South Florida student charged with transporting explosives will not be released on bail, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
In ruling that Youssef Megahed poses a flight risk and a danger to the community, Judge Steven D. Merryday overturned a Sept. 14 ruling by federal Magistrate Elizabeth Jenkins, who said the defendant could be released on $200,000 bail under strict conditions.
Merryday wrote in a 25-page ruling that no conditions would stop Megahed if he “wants to blow something up or cause a disturbance. … I am unwilling at the prospective cost of property damage, injury or death to assume he will not do so.”
Megahed’s attorney, public defender Adam Allen, said, “We respect the court’s ruling but are disappointed. We are going to review our options, including the possibility of an appeal.”
Megahed, 21, was arrested Aug. 4 in South Carolina along with fellow USF student Ahmed Mohamed, 26, after deputies found explosives in the trunk of the car in which the two men were riding, authorities said. Mohamed was driving the care, which was registered to Megahed’s brother.
Mohamed has waived his right to a bail hearing. Both defendants are Egyptian nationals. Megahed is a legal, permanent U.S. resident, and Mohamed has a student visa.
Both are charged with illegally transporting explosives. Mohamed also is charged with trying to help terrorists by teaching or demonstrating the use of explosives. Authorities say Mohamed posted a video to the Web site YouTube in which he showed how to use a remote-controlled toy to detonate a bomb.
The key assessment:
“The evidence fails to establish or even suggest any innocent or wholesome explanation for the events that led to Megahed’s arrest,” Merryday wrote.
“Guns, explosives, fuses, canisters of gasoline, ammunition, welding equipment, GPS devices, all-night interstate drives to an unstated and indeterminate destination, stops to check gun prices and availability, and computers with a recent history of visits to sites that feature the advocates and the means of violence are not attributes that a disinterested but cautious observer associates with a safe and tranquil citizen of the community,” the judge said.
“Rather, a person about whom these attributes are discovered is a person whose means, motive and degree of determination are unknown and unpredictable and who is highly suspicious and threatening.”
We’ve certainly come a long way from the innocent fireworks carriers looking for the beach scenario, haven’t we?
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Joel Mowbray examines MSM disinterest in the ongoing Goose Two case.
No mystery here: The unfolding developments don’t fit the CAIR-directed narrative.
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Rack at least one judge for using common sense.
I appluad the judge.
Amazing how nothing of this case ever gets any coverage…………call me crazy, but I guess this just doesn’t fit the liberal, give terrorist a chance media.
So sad when we get SO excited that a judge actually does his/her job and makes a good ruling.
Meanwhile, more tax dollars being spent on this low-life’s appeal. He tries to kill us, we pay for his defense, appeals, etc.
Just makes me crazy to think what we would get in their country.
Again, my apologies for my Alma Mater and the caliber of students they now recruit.
It is sad that we’re happy & surprised when a judge actually does their job!
I’m guessing this judge won’t be promoted to the 10th circus court of appeals any time soon. Be nice if he was. Maybe one of the other circuits though.
#5 – I would rule out the 9th as well…
Heck,throw in a case of beer & a bottle of whiskey & that’s a fun afternoon at my place.
Just kidding,really!
Just as long as our tax money is paying for these two youts to be feed ham sandwichs. BTW, they look just like the youts in Demark burning cars.
ROPMA
Jail, Key bottom of the Ocean.
Buh Byeeeeeee…….
I just check all the MSM outlets and not a single one seems to be reporting on this story at all any more.
Now go pick up his dirtbag brother and this will be a great Monday.
But..but…but..you right wing radicals don’t understand , it was purely innocent.Just a couple of wild and crazy guys out for a fun weekend at the beach.It wasn’t their fault they couldn’t find a beach in Florida,they had to travel to S.C..Besides they didn’t realize that America has been under attack by Jihadis,after all they are “moderate Muslims”.All that other stuff about guns,explosives,fuses etc. was just coincidental.Sarcasm off.
Finally, a federal judge with common sense: correction… A JUDGE with common sense.
Well George, there’s something you don’t see everyday.
Nothing so far nothing on these 2 terrorists in the local papers. Coverage dominated by the fire that killed 6 USC students. We’ll see when they pick up on this. They usually have a short piece on these two whevever there’s news.
I don’t know what these two knuckle-heads were planning to do but thankfully some competent law enforcement officers stopped them before they did anything. i was just wondering yesterday if there’d been any updates on these guys.
When I lived in Iowa I made several trips to Missourri to buy fireworks and it sure doesn’t bear any resemblance to what these guys were doing!
Bullets found but no gun… Hmmmm, I wonder how far they drove between the time the Officer(s) turned on the “pull over” lights & the actual stop.
Bet there is a .22 somewhere along the road with a story to tell & just waiting to tell it.
brooklyn red…
They had recently visited a local Wal Mart where they checked on gun prices. Once the officer turned on his lights, they didn’t travel more than 1/4 mile.
I don’t think they actually had a handgun on them at the time of the stop. I tend to believe they were on a dry run or looking for a desolate area to practice their remote control detonators. My contacts in the local Police Department seem to agree with that assessment.
The piping they had was PVC. A real bomb would have most likely been made from metal pipes. Even though the stop was made close to the Naval Weapons Center, the brig where Jose Padilla was held, I don’t think that was their intended target.
I also believe that the feds do not have a definitive target from these two which I think supports the practice, dry run theory. Time will tell.
Good evening Trinitytim, & thank you.
Dry run, or probe makes perfect sense… bullets with no gun makes no sense.
Perhaps you could ask your contacts to check out the roadside again, please.
About damned time!! Finally, a judge with some common sense. yes, I know – it’s already been said…
Now if they can find the two young men that were scoping out the ferry system here in the NorthWet I’ll be happy.
#17 brooklyn: .22 bullets can be used for other purposes…
Alrady been done. They had Rt. 176 which is a busy 4 lane highway closed pretty much for the entire night. They even blew up the explosives on site.
Those guys are pretty sharp. This officer started with a speeding violation and took his time to develop probable cause for terrorism related charges
Excellent job. I would have hired him in a heartbeat. He would have been a great addition to our department.
They might not of had it with them but Somewhere there is a gun. You don’t have bullets w/out a gun. Oh sure you could use .22’s to make a (really nasty) bomb or something… but only one box?
By the way I am pro gun. I just don’t see why forigen jihadists, err, I mean students should have them & while tax paying citizens in NYC can’t.
Find the gun.
I want to see the judge’s words on a new bumper sticker and put one on this dolt’s bumper.
Hey, you print it up and I’ll stop by his 30,000 sq. ft. mansion in NC and see if I can’t stick it on his SUV. If you can get 10,000 printed, I’ll put them all on. Thoretically speaking of course. Sarc off.
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Yes’m we have.
Thank GOD this case isn’t in San Francisco or Minn.
Allowing a probable suicide bomber/terrorist ANY bail would be about the dumbest decision ever, but there are some who would still do so today.
and doing it better, by an order of magnitude, than any of them could imagine doing.
Agreed, very sad and very maddening.
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Now it could still go bad…again(i.e. tx).
We still need twelve (12) HONEST and non jihadi loving, wide awake jurors.
I believe the proper term is Smeghead.
In SC that shouldn’t be a problem #26
Well, they could have also been transporting fireworks along with all the other stuff. It could work that way. Kinda like how the phoney CBS Bush NG documents could have been real.
#26
Two words, or maybe one word, or two letters…anyway…
O.J.
What’s the deal with this?? Who is subsidizing the whole family? And the son’s jihad activities??
I would love to see a little follow-up investigation on this family!
Public defender? Where’s CAIR’s money now?
Were they here legally or illegally? If here illegally they probably walked across our border through my ranch. The moslim prayer blanket and beads I found on my ranch could belong to them!!!