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Problems In The Goose Creek Case

posted 5:51 pm Thu August 16, 2007 - Charleston, SC

tags: megahed • mohamed • goose creek

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Almost two weeks later...attorney Andy Savage picks up the case of one of the two Florida college students charged with possession of explosives while driving through goose creek.

Just as the FBI says the circumstances of the case aren't clear.

Ahmed Mohamed and Youssef Megahed are both in solitary confinement.

They didn't ask to be there but they were put there by the federal government.

Add that to the fact that the FBI hasn't confirmed what exactly was in their trunk, despite having the resources to do so and attorney Andy Savage has a problem.

“No Irish America kid from the college of Charleston would be in the Berkeley County Detention center on this time of charge on a $500,000 bond.

I don't think anyone should find it unusual about how these two are being treated,” Andy Savage says.

Savage points to a policy that former attorney general John Ashcroft called spit on the sidewalk in which the federal government detains a person they think is a terrorist.

“The question is whether its all spit and no sidewalk, but what the philosophy is no matter how minor they do their best to detain anyone who is suspected of being a terrorist, affiliated with terrorism, that's the philosophy of the department of justice,” Savage explains.

He says the FBI is trying to be more careful in how they handle this case...they don't want to get it wrong.

But he says, that shouldn't mean taking too long to come out with the evidence.

A pretrial hearing date has not been set.

The FBI has done interviews and searches in Tampa Florida.

Andy Savage is not representing Ahmed Mohamed but is offering help until his family finds another lawyer.

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