You Can Get Just About Anything at Wal-Mart, Including Pipe Bombs

In a follow-up to this post regarding the two Arab men arrested with bomb-making materials in their car, they've now been charged with possession of pipe bombs which were made with ingredients purchased from Wal-Mart:

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. — 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.

Mohamed, 24, said he made pipe bombs from items he bought at Wal-Mart, according to an affidavit with his arrest warrant.

Of course, the perp's attorneys and the mouthpieces from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (boy did they jump in fast) are doing their best to make this all some kind of accident with fireworks, but that's just nonsense. And let's just stop and think about this for a minute. If you're a young Arab male in America today, would it be wise to have any contact with explosives at all? Do you think anybody's going to believe it's some kind of innocent mistake that you have pipe bombs in your car? The last thing any Arab or Muslim male should be doing is associating with anything that goes boom. Even CAIR should know that.