Our friendly Jihadis claimed they had fireworks from WalMart.  Unfortunately for them, WalMart doesn’t sell bombs. From Pravda on the Reedy (The Greenville News):

Men had pipe bombs near Navy base

Published: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 - 3:01 am
Updated: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 - 3:04 am

The Associated Press [AL AP]

MONCKS CORNER - Two men found with several pipe bombs in their car near a Navy base were charged Monday with possession of an explosive device, authorities said.

A joint state-federal investigation was under way to see whether there was any terrorism connection but no link had been found yet, said FBI spokeswoman Denise Taiste. The Navy base is the site of a brig where enemy combatants have been held.

Ahmed Abda Sherf Mohamed, 24, and Yousef Samir Megahed, 21, both students at the University of South Florida in Tampa, were driving through the area on Saturday to vacation at a North Carolina beach for Mohamed’s birthday, their defense attorney said.

“They admitted to having what they said were fireworks. Based on the officer’s judgment at hand, based on what he had seen, we judged it to be other than fireworks,” Berkeley County Sheriff Wayne DeWitt said.

ohamed, 24, said he made the devices from items he bought at Wal-Mart, according to an affidavit with his arrest warrant.

Defense attorney, Dennis Rhoad, said the men have a reason for having the devices and it would become clear in later court hearings.

“The defendants deny the allegations the state and the sheriff have made against them,” Rhoad said.

Prosecutor Scarlett Wilson asked for high bond, which was set at $500,000 for Mohamed and $300,000 for Megahed, because she said the men were dangerous and a risk to flee.

Mohamed is a native of Kuwait and Megahed is Egyptian, the sheriff said. Both are in the country legally.

Ahmed Bedier, the executive director of a civil rights organization for Muslims in Tampa, criticized the arrest as racial profiling, an accusation South Carolina police refuted.

It’s not clear if the item found in the vehicle is actually a bomb, said Bedier, of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

“If it’s clearly a pipe bomb that’s a different story. Then there is cause for concern,” Bedier said. “However, we have not seen consistent evidence that it is a pipe bomb. There is a lot of contradiction out there.”

Megahed lives with his family and they voluntarily allowed the FBI to search their home in Tampa Monday, Bedier said.

“They’re so confident that they don’t have anything in their home that they gave the keys to some agents. The father voluntarily allowed them to go search the home unsupervised,” Bedier said.

Mohamed and Megahed were stopped for speeding Saturday night on U.S. Highway 176 near Goose Creek, which is the site of the Naval Weapons Station and houses the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig, a military prison where enemy combatants have been held.

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