No Brainer

[joemomma]

washingtonpost.com

Student Arrested After Pilot Uniform Found

The Associated Press

Friday, September 16, 2005; 11:39 PM

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- 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 country 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.

"The specific facts and circumstances are scary," Parker said.

U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Thomas Anderson ruled that Maawad be held without bond.

"It is hard for the court to understand why he has a large concentration of those (aviation) items, and nothing else to indicate Mr. Maawad plans to stay in the community," Anderson said.

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.

© 2005 The Associated Press

Two things about this article lead me to believe that our security is not as high on the authorities' priorities list as political correctness. One - if he's in this country illegally, how did he get admitted to a major University?

Two - Who on this board has a question as to Mr. Maawad's motives? So, why is it hard for Judge Anderson to understand? It sounds like we'd be safer with the Keystone Cops in charge.

I just noticed one other thing that's bothersome. How was this guy able to get $2500 credit from a company that obviously didn't know him, obviously didn't do a background check, and yet still delivered $2500 worth of material. Go figure. :freak:

[Erik Sine]

Theres still hippies who believe in searching a little old lady at the airport rather than searching Achmed Kubal Ali Sudon who is traveling alone with and wearing a huge trenchcoat. We don't want to offend anyone now do we, at the fact of risking our own security now do we? We need to be more sensitive and feeeeeeeel for our enemies, fight a more sensitive war.

hahahaha, there lucky I'm not in govenment law enforcement. Everyone with a Koran would be getting there door knocked down :D

roofles