Defense attorneys for a 27-year-old Egyptian man who pleaded guilty to trying to help terrorists are asking a judge to sentence him to eight years in prison, not the 15-year-term being requested by prosecutors. ...more

December 18, 2008

TAMPA – Defense attorneys for a 27-year-old Egyptian man who pleaded guilty to trying to help terrorists are asking a judge to sentence him to eight years in prison, not the 15-year-term being requested by prosecutors. ...more

December 17, 2008

What a filthy, disgusting business is war; always in the final analysis, the product of competing ideologies, its result is the slaughter of the innocents, the butchery of its young men, very young men, who rarely fully grasp an understanding of the dogmas for whom their lives are forfeit. ...more

December 2, 2008

A federal judge has denied a motion by lawyers for Youssef Megahed, who asked him to prevent prosecutors from using a "Hollywood-esque" video in his upcoming trial on charges he illegally transported explosives. ...more

November 7, 2008

TAMPA - The sentencing of a former University of South Florida student who pleaded guilty to trying to help terrorists has been moved from Friday to a later date, according to a notice filed today in federal court. ...more

November 6, 2008

Ahmed Mohamed came to the United States to gather "information about explosives and acquiring components in this country to construct explosives to cause harm within this country," a federal prosecutor asserts in a newly filed court document. Mohamed, an Egyptian student in the United States to attend the University of South Florida, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to providing material support to terrorists by making and posting on the Web site You Tube a video in which he shows how to use a remote-controlled device to detonate a bomb. ...more

November 5, 2008

Prosecutors say an Egyptian college student who studied at the University of South Florida called America a "vile nation." ...more

November 4, 2008

Travelers at Tampa International Airport this morning will be the first to experience the new full-body imaging scanners that detect weapons, explosives or other dangerous items. ...more

October 24, 2008

The question of what Youssef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed were doing when they were arrested during a road trip in South Carolina last year is at the center of legal arguments now before a federal appeals court. ...more

October 19, 2008

The question of what Youssef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed were doing when they were arrested during a road trip in South Carolina last year is at the center of legal arguments now before a federal appeals court. ...more

October 17, 2008