Did He Have Any Friends?

From The Washington Post:

"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."

It's good to know that after 9/11 we've really tightened up on the student visas. The INS might have gotten around to him if he'd worked in a poultry plant in Arkansas.