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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All I can say is yes. Profiling or not, we need to know where those folks are all the time.
BTTT
"Put him in the back seat of a QF-4, converted from one of the Navy models, with no controls in the rear seat."
Do just like the French did in Algeria, torture the scumbag until you've wrung out every last bit of useful info and then execute him.
Lamp post justice
Well...it is possible that the dude was using the suit and act to get babes. We know that airline pilots simply have to show up in a bar...talk flying...and five or six women will invite him for a drink. I don't want to know this guy until I hear more evidence...like getting funding from questionable sources to pay for his student requirements (which I haven't heard a hint of...and you have to ask how he was paying for college).
I suspect they wouldn't have said a word.
Sounds like he is a Jihadist, or at least in sympathy. So glad we caught him... Who are we missing???
Memphis. Straight shot up to Chicago.
Sears Tower is probably the next target.
bttt
nice find.
Red handed.
Spark chaser, sparky, tweak, conehead, twidget, ditdat, wirehead... lots of names for us. It's good to see another fellow tron here on FR.
Speaking of Byck The Assassination of Richard Nixon $708,776 gross as per boxofficemojo.com no wonder penn was running around NOLA with a shotgun
Swifter execution.
Because it's perectly legal for Sporty's Pilot Shop to sell any of the items offered in thier catalog to anyone with the money. Why would they report a paying customer for conducting business with them?
Just doing the jobs Americans refuse to do. /sarcasm
Maawad, who is in the United States illegally
I'm shocked! (/sarcasm)
"And now, Mr. Salesperson, I would like to buy the airline pilot uniform. I am big, important airline pilot and need new uniform to impress the foxes. What you just stand there for? Get uniform NOW you infidel!"
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