We missed a SCARY story on Friday....

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091601286_pf.html

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

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. yikes

[rzemanfl]

2. That is really scary unless he also had a DVD entitled "How to

Pick Up Women at Airport Cocktail Lounges."

[skids]

7. Or "How to make the government really really nervous."

n/t

[Clark2008]

3. Wow! In Memphis?

I'm in Tennessee (though on the other side of the state).

Can you imagine the fundies if he'd crashed into Graceland?

[jillan]

4. OMG - they still want to use Airplanes!

I can't believe this story got buried in the week's news.

I'm glad that our intellegence finally worked. Maybe this will stop whoever else is in on it.

[koopie57]

6. of course they will want to use airplanes

cuz no one in this administration can imagine that they would fly an airplane into one of our buildings

[mongo]

9. I don't think it was our intellegence that stopped him

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.

So if the guy had paid for the stuff would he still be free?

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5. Did the arresting officer look like Tom Hanks?

[sam sarrha]

8. did they find the book on 'How to Pickup Dump American Girls'..

this out of SNL...

[MADem]

10. I posted this in the ANTHRAX thread, actually

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4801804&mesg_id=4801805

Probably shoulda given it a post of its' own.

[kweerwolf]

11. I heard that story mentioned on the news and my initial reaction ...

... was "why would they use airplanes again?"

It seem unlikely to me because there is so much attention focused on airports and airlines. I have to wonder if the guy who was caught was either acting on his own or if he was somehow meant to be caught to misdirect us. (Perhaps a terrorist version of a Rovian trick.)

OK ... I'm putting my tin foil hat back on now so Ann Coulter will quit aiming her thought-reading beams at me.
:tinfoilhat:

[Toots]

14. "why would they use airplanes again?"

I guess if it ain't broke don't fix it..

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. they said that they would. I think because it is so dramatic and

horrific. People are afraid to fly - even without terror. They love the photo drama. Hmmm. Just made me think -- always fly at night -- they wouldn't highjack then - no good photos.

[radwriter0555]

12. LOL, he was trying to get laid, like "Catch me if you can.."

too funny.

[pitohui]

13. i saw that too

i fly thru mem all the time, hope there was no terror intended, just a stupid kid wanting to impress the girls by pretending to be a pilot

but after 9-11 & egyptair 990 i have to say better to hold w.out bond while this is being checked out

[Vinca]

15. It's only a matter of time - you know that, don't you?

And now the Middle East is like a hornet's nest on steroids. They can't wait to kill a bunch of us. If not this guy, another. It will happen. Daddy Dubya is not making us safe.

[sam sarrha]

16. and WE stirred them up real good. with the Bu$h fools in charge it will be

sooner than later.. before the inevitable..