Goose Creek update: 15 years for jihad video creator
Ahmed Mohamed, one half of the Goose Creek two, received the maximum sentence yesterday for creating a jihad video that was to be used by Muslim “martyrs” fighting American soldiers in Arab countries. He and his apologists still insist on painting Mohamed as a regular college guy. The judge didn’t buy it.
Good:
Former University of South Florida student Ahmed Mohamed received a maximum 15-year federal prison sentence Thursday for providing material support to terrorists.
In court, U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday pondered the 27-year-old’s potential aloud, gazing at the former engineering doctoral student and teaching assistant who had once managed a 4.0 GPA.
“I still wonder why this young man in front of me at his age, at his intelligence, how he has become committed to this path,” Merryday said.
Mohamed admitted in a June plea agreement to creating a YouTube video showing how to turn a child’s remote control toy into a detonator. He told authorities the video was to be used by martyrs fighting “invaders” of Arab countries, including the U.S. military.
For the first time on Thursday, prosecutors displayed the video in court.
“I admit that this video was something that wasn’t a wise idea,” Mohamed told the judge in a letter read by defense attorney Lyann Goudie. “I never intended to harm anyone in particular. I do apologize. … I am no more than a college guy.”
Prosecutors also disclosed for the first time Thursday that Mohamed uploaded the video from an engineering computer at USF. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Monk said the video was viewed 782 times before it was removed from the site. Prosecutors presented no evidence that anyone had followed Mohamed’s instructions in the video and caused harm.
Federal agents superimposed English subtitles onto the video to translate Mohamed’s words as he spoke in Arabic. He demonstrated how a blue, remotely controlled truck could be reassembled for use as a detonator. Mohamed’s face isn’t shown on the video, but he admitted to law enforcement that he produced, narrated and uploaded it to the Internet.
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Lock him up and throw away the key!
Oh, and feed him pork everyday!
There you go Einstein.
15 years should be plenty of time to complete that doctorate..
“I am no more than a
college guypathetic criminal wasting away in a federal prison for 15 years.”There. fixed.
Good riddance! 15 years isn’t enough, he’ll only be 42 when he gets out — that is if his sentance isn’t shortened for “good behavior”, and still plenty capable of inflicting damage. This is the kind of person that should be in Guantanamo!
That’s like Bush saying “I am no more than a fiscal conservative”.
Actions speak louder than words.
Pork skins and ham sandwiches everyday for lunch. Pigs in a blanket on special occasions (Christmas, Easter, Yom Kippur, Passover etc. etc. all the great secular holidays), and on the 4th of July, Veterans Day and Memorial Day, Bubba Q Ribs. Just think Mohammad, 15 years of fine dining at the expense of the American taxpayer.
Better yet, drop him off in Gaza City wearing a “Mohammad Sucks, Jesus Saves” tee shirt. That won’t take 15 years, and we won’t have to go through an annual plea for a pardon from the leftists.
Maybe they should bunk Jihad Johnny with him and they can be “roomies” for a few years. They have a lot in common.
I wish the non-Muslim world would take this threat seriously. It isn’t like we haven’t been given plenty of impetus to do so.
I think we as a society need to come to terms with the practitioners of Islam and their fellow terrorists whose religion condones lies on behalf of jihad in order to further its “evangelism.” And I’m sick to death of subsidizing the education of these people, too. OK, make that subsidizing the liberal indoctrination of these people (may be a good way to further destroy the middle east, on second thought).
Thank you, Jesus!
pboilermaker you are absolutely right. the scariest thought i have had is that these university engineering departments and physics departments are neck deep in muslims. if you try to go into the nuclear power plant run by your local electrical company, you are severely searched, but these muslim postdocs walk into potential nuclear and biological weapon sites every day at every univwersity in the u.s. no problem, these are educated peace loving muslims like these two clowns.
Buh Bye Scumbag.
If he voted for POTUS, who would he have voted for?
On December 19th, 2008 at 10:56 am, On-my-soap-box said:
Why, he would of course vote for a Jihadist if he had the chance.
Could a Jihadist actually be elected POTUS?
Yeh well, I’ve almost exactly as he has done in his educational career. He was not a Freshman who is usually asleep on the back row and who was caught doing a stupid fraternity initiation prank (hmm, probably shoulda gone to jail for those too, but I digress).
As a Doctoral TA, he was a danger to everyone by providing the impetus for future acts – Ergo a Ph.D.
I hear the boys in prison just loooooove those “college guys.”
In reading the newspaper report I saw, once again, one of my great frustrations as to how these acts are characterized by lawyers, spokespersons, media etc.
(my emphasis)
Mistake? This was not a “mistake”. A mistake is when you are adding a column of numbers and forget to carry the one. It’s when you take the second left instead of the first left and end up on the wrong street.
This video was a deliberate act. It was not made by accident.
Words have meaning or, at least, they are supposed to. If words lose their ordinary meaning then we, as a civilization lose our ability to have meaningful communication (George Orwell was percipient on this).
While I don’t really begrudge the lawyer making her best effort on behalf of her client…it’s her duty after all..I do begrudge judges and media allowing this stuff to get past unremarked upon.
This man committed a deliberate act, period. He has pled guilty and is now under sentence.
There were no “mistakes”.
Another example that gives the lie to the jihad being attributed to poverty and oppression. A 4.0 GPA Doctoral candidate in south Florida? He could have done a lot of good, and been a financial success. Fifteen years is not enough!
Bullcrap. A college guy, in Florida no less.
My idea of a Florida college guy would too busy enjoying drinking games in the beautiful climate and playing with the girls to even think about jihad.
You sir, are not just a college guy. You, sir, are the enemy of civilization.
It actually says that he “once managed a 4.0 GPA.” That suggests to me that it happened one semester (or quarter) during his graduate tenure. The dirty little secret is – that is not particularly hard in graduate school. Been there, done that.
*looks around*
None of our liberals on this bboard here to defend these two?
Go figure. We’d probably be hearing something like “At least they didn’t make someone wear underwear on their heads” as a defense. (Did their defense attorney try that one?)
I’m not happy with the idea of putting these scumbags in a prison to suck off the government teat for 15 years while they indoctrinate the scum of society on how to be even scummier.
The only sure cure for terrorism is to cut their heads off.
That’s it! Fry him!!!
Put him with the general prison population.
We are being to harsh! We need to understand the Jihadist so that we can amend our ways to avoid antagonizing them to the point that they feel the need to hurt us!
Then after that, we can hang the bastages!
Fifteen years seems somewhat light but if that is the maximum the law allows so be it. BLT sandwiches for lunch, pork chops for dinner and crow for breakfast, Bubba for a late night treat.
And we have to find away to get rid of these mohammedan chaplains in our prisons. All they really do is spread the jihad.
We used to have a stronger word for “providing material support” to avowed enemies of our nation. It was called treason, and the punishment proscribed was typically a speedy execution, which is what this man and John Walker Lindh should both have gotten. Sadly, we don’t have the collective stomach for such things anymore, so we spare the lives of traitors but in return live in a more chaotic world far more apt to steal the lives of the innocent.
He is sorry …that he got caught…don’t worry there fella..they will love you in the back of the laundry room…Now have a nice day.
Then he should feel right at home over the next 15 years sharing a “frat house” with the rest of his fraternity.
How long until Mr. Obama pardons these “regular college guys” in the name of racial justice?
Great idea, Happy!
Yesterday was a good day for convictions in Florida.
Iranian convicted of illegal attempt to export military gear to homeland
Ain’t it ironic that he figures this out after he’s caught. If he’s that smart he should have figured it out before he went stupid.
It’s sort of like the murderers that always seem to find Jesus after they get convicted.
So he intended to harm no one in particular. Just infidels in general.
Got it.
JDinDC, 4 years. “Basically, he is a good man who was mislead and has expressed regret”.
Thank you, Lord Ganesha! Aum.
I haven’t seen the video nor want to but look at the following statement: “Prosecutors presented no evidence that anyone had followed Mohamed’s instructions in the video and caused harm“. If no harm was caused, why is he getting 15 years? The sentence and restitution should be in proportion to the amount of harm done. That’s true justice, no? So this guy got 15 years for really harming no one. So it’s a political sentence. Let the victims come forward and show how they were harmed in a tangible way. If someone was killed because of this man’s video, then let the actual killer die. Why don’t we prosecute people who think about jihad while we’re at it?
A classic example of moon god worship. That is how he got that way.
He follows a 7th century murderer, and rapist named Mohammed. Who also was full of hate.
Don’t tell POTUS, he thinks Islam is the religion of peace.
ROPMA!