In federal court in Tampa yesterday, former USF Student Ahmed Mohamed was sentenced to a maximum sentence of 15 years in federal prison for providing material support to terrorists.
Mohamed was one of the two “naive kids” who were stopped for speeding in South Carolina in August 2007 when supposed explosives were found in their trunk. The cops that stopped them were seen to have joked about them as “Taliban” and “graduates of suicide bomber school”. Defense lawyers showed videotapes trying to prove that white people stopped by the same officers were not subject to the same condescending treatment.
Discuss moral conundrum, now…..
As it turns out, the “explosives” weren’t really dangerous, however….
Deputies also found a laptop with a 12-minute video that had been uploaded to YouTube, on which Mr. Mohamed demonstrates how to convert a remote-controlled car from Wal-Mart into a bomb detonator. He speaks in Arabic, saying he wants to teach ”martyrdoms” and ‘’suiciders” how to save themselves so they can continue to fight invaders.
