Posted on 09/16/2005 12:31:54 PM PDT by SmithL
Memphis -- A university student from Egypt was ordered held without bond after prosecutors said they found a pilot's uniform, chart of Memphis International Airport and a DVD titled "How an Airline Captain Should Look and Act" in his apartment.
The FBI is investigating whether Mahmoud Maawad, 29, had any connection to terrorists. He is awaiting trial on charges of wire fraud and fraudulent use of a Social Security number.
Maawad, who is in the United States illegally, told the judge during a hearing Thursday that he is studying science and economics at the University of Memphis.
"My school is everything. I stay in this country for seven years; I stay for the school," he said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Parker said Thursday that the airport-related items were found during a Sept. 9 search.
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Seven years of undergrad work....down the drain?
Hard to believe. Maybe he's just wanted to be a guest pilot.
Lock him up and throw the key away
He should have been disappeared.
Maawad had ordered $3,000 in aviation materials, including DVDs titled "Ups and Downs of Takeoffs and Landings,""Airplane Talk,""Mental Math for Pilots" and "Mastering GPS Flying," FBI agent Thad Gulczynski testified.
The company reported Maawad to authorities when he didn't pay for $2,500 of merchandise it had delivered, Gulczynski said.
...flying the planes that Americans won't.
Looks like there will be one more pilot wanna be in Guantanamo.
Perhaps the University of Memphis needs to review its admissions standards -- especially regarding international students named Mahmoud. If this guy isn't linked to bad activities and groups, he is just too darn stupid to be walking around at a University and calling himself a student.
This quote is very like Atta, who talked an officer into letting him go though his visa had expired. "I will renew it when I get back to school, America is a great country."
So to become an airline captain all one does is get a suit and learn how to act. Reminds me of the joke about the man in the flight uniform walking past a long line of people waiting to go into heaven. When someone in the crowd asked why the pilot got to have such special priviledges St Peter told him, " Its OK, thats God. He only thinks he's a pilot".
At least he didnt have one titled "How Ted Kennedy Should Look and Act"
"He should have been disappeared."
Absolutely. And if some of these folks started disappearing, I'd like to be a fly on the wall of their families' homes.
Their cell members' homes. Their neighbors' homes.
Cuz I think most of these people know what is going on.
"He should have been disappeared."
Absolutely. And if some of these folks started disappearing, I'd like to be a fly on the wall of their families' homes.
Their cell members' homes. Their neighbors' homes.
Cuz I think most of these people know what is going on.
PING
This guy is either crazy or had a plan of terrorism to execute.
And the pilots uniform is for Halloween I suppose.
Sounds like he should join his comrades in Guantanamo.
I'm sure this is just one big misunderstanding... :-)
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