User:Ronnotel/Goose Creek

The Goose Creek Incident involved the arrest and indictment of two engineering students from the University of South Florida on charges of possessing explosives. Ahmed Adba Sherf Mohamed, 24, and Yousef Samir Megahed, 21 were stopped for speeding near Goose Creek, South Carolina. Officers found suspicious materials in their car, including what prosecutors allege was a pipe bomb, as well as ammunition. The two were stopped near the Goose Creek Naval Weapons Station, site of the brig where convicted U.S. terrorist Jose Padilla was detained and interrogated.

Mohamed is from Kuwait and Megahed is from Egypt. Both are in the U.S., legally on student visas.

According the FBI, a joint state-federal investigation examining the possibility that Mohamed and Megahed presence near the Naval Weapons Station may be linked to terrorism.