Update: Ahmed Abda Sherf Mohamed and Yousef Samir Megahed

You remember those two Egyptian students arrested in South Carolina for driving around the U.S. Naval Weapons Station with pipe bombs in their car.

Ahmed Abda Sherf Mohamed and Yousef Samir Megahed claimed the explosives were harmless fireworks.

Naturally, one of our enemies' best friends CAIR came to their rescue, shouting racial profiling. Mohamed and Megahed were victims.

Andy McCarthy has some additional details about the "students."

They've now been indicted by the Justice Department in Florida.

Ahmed Mohammed is charged with teaching and demonstrating how to use explosives in support of terrorism. Both he and his sidekick, Youssef Megahed, are charged with transporting explosives across state lines. They had already been charged in South Carolina with possessing pipe-bombs. At the time of their arrest, they were in Goose Creek, about seven miles away from the U.S. Naval Weapons Station where a brig that has been used for the detention of American enemy combatants is located.

The men are students at the University of South Florida's School of Engineering, which Professor Sami al-Arian turned into an outpost of the terrorist organization, Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Now it turns out that at least one of them was either renting or about to rent a room in a house formerly rented by al-Arian's World & Islam Studies Enterprise. Steve Emerson's Investigative Project on Terrorism also reports that, according to sources close to the investigation, Ahmed Mohammed had previously been arrested in Egypt on terrorism charges. No word yet on how he was able to get into the United States with that history.

CAIR's Bedier, after initially assuring us that the students were just a couple of "really naive kids" who happened to be driving around South Carolina with fireworks, changed tacks after state authorities filed pipe bomb charges — claiming instead that their arrest was suggestive of "profiling." Did I mention that Bedier was one of al-Arian's top apologists? In 2006, when last we heard from him before this case, he was explaining that, because al-Arian had “stayed true to his convictions,” the professor would not be pleading guilty to any terrorism charges because, after all, “there is no conspiracy to support terrorism.” Immediately afterwards, al-Arian pled guilty to conspiracy to provide services to a designated terrorist organization.

South Carolina state charges against Mohamed and Megahed have been dropped now that the federal indictment is in place.

[T]he students were indicted on federal charges of carrying explosive materials across state lines. Mohamed also faces terrorism-related charges for allegedly demonstrating how to use the explosives.

The two are expected to make an initial appearance in federal court in Charleston as early as this week. Wilson said the state charges will be dismissed once plans to move the men, who are being held at the Berkeley County jail, to federal custody have been worked out.

"I want to make sure nothing falls through the cracks and they aren't inadvertently released," Wilson said. "Obviously the local authorities made the initial stop. But all of the analysis and background information was done by the feds."

A date for the federal court appearance has not been set, said Kevin McDonald, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Columbia.

Candace de Russy has this to add:

Two Egyptian students enrolled at the Tampa-based University of South Florida have been indicted for carrying explosive materials across states lines. One of the defendants, Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, also is charged with teaching the other how to use them for violent reasons.

Mohamed is said to have been arrested previously in Egypt on terrorism-related charges. He is said to have produced an Internet video showing how to build a remote-controlled car bomb.

Well, well, well.

Poor Mohamed and Megahed are just a couple of innocent kids being harassed by the U.S. government.

Sure they are.

Thankfully, these two "kids" were speeding and officers got them on what at first appeared to be a routine traffic stop.

It's another victory in the War on Terror.

Take note, Democrats.

War on Terror? What War on Terror?