An Egyptian engineering student has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for his terror strike demo on YouTube. He had pleaded guilty to the charge.

Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 27 and a student at the University of South Florida, ad uploaded a 12-minute video that showed how to convert a remote-control toy car into a bomb detonator.

Defense attorneys had requested that Mohamed receive eight years in prison, the minimum penalty according to sentencing guidelines. Instead, he was given the maximum.

South Carolina authorities said they found various bomb-making materials in the vehicle he was driving when he was pulled over in August last year.

The search of the vehicle yielded several sections of PVC pipe containing a potassium nitrate mixture compacted between plugs of kitty litter and approximately 20 feet of safety fuse. These materials, which constitute "explosive materials," had been transported from Florida. Also in the trunk of the Toyota Camry were separate containers filled with several gallons of gasoline and a potassium nitrate mixture.

Subsequent FBI analysis of Defendant Mohamed’s laptop computer recovered from the car disclosed a large number of file folders containing information relating to the manufacture and use of bombs, rockets, and other explosives, including several video recordings showing the use of such devices to attack and destroy manned United States military vehicles. The FBI analysis also disclosed the viewing history of the laptop computer prior to the time of the Goose Creek traffic stop. The last item played on the laptop computer, prior to the traffic stop, was a video recording relating to the use and firing of Qassam rockets in the Middle East.