Keeping The Cable Guys Honest
To Deport or Not to Deport? That is the Question.
Today begins the deportation trial of Youssef Megahed, Democracy Now!’s Marxist host Amy Goodman was sad to report. Goodman treated her viewers to a jailhouse exclusive interview with this 23-year-old University of South Florida “student.”
For those unfamiliar with the case, here is a brief overview of how Megahed came to find himself facing deportation back to Egypt:
In August 2007, Megahed and a friend named Ahmed Mohamed were arrested in South Carolina in a routine traffic stop. The two were driving around looking at military bases. Sherriff’s Deputies found explosives in the trunk of the car, along with Mohamed’s laptop which contained jihadist videos, including one (produced by Mohamed himself) demonstrating the proper use of a remote-controlled detonator for a bomb that he had crafted from a children’s toy. Mohamed said he intended the video, which was briefly posted on YouTube, to help “martyrs” fight invaders, including U.S. forces in Muslim countries.
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