A former University of South Florida student admitted in federal court Wednesday morning that he helped terrorists by making an Internet video showing how to use a remote-controlled toy car to detonate a bomb. ...more

June 19, 2008

Regarding "Mohamed To Admit Terrorism Support" (front page, June 14): But Ahmed Mohamed said he wasn't guilty. He said he wasn't a terrorist. He said the things in the trunk of his car were just fireworks. He said the police officer who stopped him in South Carolina was racial profiling. His lawyer adamantly insisted the same. We were assured by his lawyer and his family he was a poor innocent, wrongly charged. ...more

June 19, 2008

TAMPA - A former University of South Florida student admitted in court this morning that he helped terrorists by making an Internet video showing how to use a remote-controlled toy car to detonate a bomb. ...more

June 18, 2008

The guilty plea signed on Friday by former University of South Florida student Ahmed Mohamed confirms the worst fears of many in the post-9/11 United States: Despite the government's efforts to keep them out, individuals who espouse Islamic terrorism continue to slip into the United States. ...more

June 17, 2008

TAMPA – Ahmed Mohamed is scheduled to enter his guilty plea to a terrorism charge Wednesday morning. U.S. Magistrate Mark Pizzo this morning scheduled the 10:30 a.m. hearing in the case of the Egyptian national and former University of South Florida student. ...more

June 16, 2008

TAMPA – Former University of South Florida student Ahmed Mohamed has agreed to plead guilty to providing material support to terrorists, according to a signed 12-page plea agreement entered onto the docket in U.S. District Court. ...more

June 13, 2008

Nine months after he was arrested in South Carolina, former University of South Florida student Youssef Megahed walked out of a federal courthouse Monday, free to live in his parents' home while prosecutors appeal an evidence ruling. ...more

May 6, 2008

The explosives trial of a former University of South Florida student likely will be put on hold after prosecutors appealed a judge's evidence ruling Friday. ...more

May 3, 2008

The South Carolina sheriff's deputy who stopped a car with two University of South Florida students inside in August says he initially suspected the silver Toyota with a Florida tag was involved in drug trafficking. ...more

February 20, 2008

The South Carolina sheriff's deputy who stopped a car with two University of South Florida students in August says he initially suspected the silver Toyota with a Florida tag was involved in drug trafficking. But under questioning by defense attorneys for the two men, Deputy James Lamar Blakely said that when he was told by another deputy that the pair had copies of the Quran, that raised suspicions in his mind of terrorism. ...more

February 19, 2008