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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors allege that an Egyptian man searched the Internet for ways to smuggle guns and bombs past airport security in what might have been a plot to launch a terrorist attack in the U.S.
Authorities said they had no evidence directly linking Mahmoud Maawad, 29, to terrorists but asked for his detention as a precaution.
He has been held without bond since his arrest in September for using a fake Social Security number to enroll at the University of Memphis. Maawad came to the United States on a visitor's visa but never left after it expired in 1999, authorities said.
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