I posted details about this story here.

In an interview on MSNBC, terrorism expert Steve Emerson poses the following crucial questions that remain to be addressed about Mr. Mohamed (click here to watch the video):

  • Why did he come to Tampa to create a video about how to teach remote control car bombs to be disseminated to terrorists around the world, or even in this country?
  • Who else are his connections here? Who else was involved with him? Was he sent here on a particular mission?
  • He was about to move to the house that Sami al-Arian, the Islamic Jihad professor, lived in. That raises an interesting coincidence.
  • He and his other co-indicted colleague were members of the al-Qassam mosque; that was the Islamic Jihad mosque. There is a need for more investigation about who was attending that mosque.
  • [Finally, regarding the fact that the two students were caught up happenstance – that is, they were caught speeding], why didn’t his previous affiliation with a terrorist group in Egypt preclude him from getting a student visa? Was this a screw-up by DHS or a screw-by the Egyptian government.