Charleston, S.C. -- Police bust men with bomb pieces in car

[2muchcoffeeman]

http://www.abcnews4.com/news/stories/0807/444994.html

Caught this on CNN; appears to be ongoing. (EDIT: Could be wrong about that, as the NBC affiliate reports it happened yesterday.)

In an apparent attempt to further religious bigotry, the two suspects have Arab names.

http://www.wcbd.com/midatlantic/cbd/news.apx.-content-articles-CBD-2007-08-05-0004.html

 

[GB-Hack]

This....you know the rest.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

I don't care about the names or their origins ... could not care less. Just nip this in the bud. I've got a couple of good friends in Charleston, and do not want to hear about them through something like this.

Carry on.

 

[Write-brained]

Islamic community leader from Tampa says they were just University of South Florida college students on a road trip.

http://charleston.net/news/2007/aug/05/possible_bomb_scare_shuts_down_goose_creek_highway/

 

[Eagleboy]

He said Megahed is a permanent legal resident of the United States and Mohamed was the passenger. Mohamed's legal status was not known. Bedier said police will not tell them why they’re being held without charges.

“There’s a lot of unanswered questions,” Bedier said. “If they didn’t do anything wrong they need to be released.”

I kind of hope they're fireworks - and I kind of hope this gets cleared up really quickly. That's just not right, if true.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Apparently, the famous Mr. Jablome's Southern in-laws were briefly involved in this story.
http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2007/08/jes-funnin-press-nita-cunningham-of.html

 

[alleyallen]

What happened to all of Junkie's posts? They're missing from at least two threads.

 

[outofplace]

I don't care about the names or their origins ... could not care less. Just nip this in the bud. I've got a couple of good friends in Charleston, and do not want to hear about them through something like this.

Carry on.

Same sentiments here, though for me it is family in Charleston. In fact, Mrs. OOP and I are going to visit with our little one this weekend, so this one jumped right out at me.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

What happened to all of Junkie's posts? They're missing from at least two threads.

Apparently there were serious problems with Junkie 2.0. :D