Now if this doesn't make the hair stand up on your neck ...

Student Arrested After Pilot Uniform Found
The Associated Press
Friday, September 16, 2005; 11:39 PM

What is with the title? This seems like something you would find in the odd news. Why not instead identify the student as a Middle Eastern Man or Egyptian and add Terror Plot Suspected. Why didn't the title read:Middle Eastern Man in Possession of Pilot Uniform and Airport Map Arrested, Terror Plot Suspected.

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.

You better bet he isn't alone.... I certainly hope that the airline industry is taking precautions and keeping a look out for people disguised up as pilots.

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.

Ship him to Club Gitmo!

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.

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"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.

Now THAT is an understatement.

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.

Why didn't they report it when they read on the invoice that his name was Mahmoud Maawad?

Via Drudge