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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.
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.
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.
Based on the article, this student sounds like a copycat terrorist rather than an al qaeda sleeper cell.
Well, this guy definitely isn’t going to be the next Frank Abignale, so, copycat or not, its good that this potential terrorist was taken in.
So, would the company have turned him if he HAD paid his bills?
So, would the company have turned him if he HAD paid his bills?
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that detail was odd.