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To: CountofMoneyCristo who wrote (4331)	10/11/2001 3:51:14 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Palestinian pilot in the UNited States arrested after making threatening remark is revealed to be here on an expired visa from 3 years ago. jpost.com 19:00) Palestinian in US enters innocent plea in weapon charge By Pam Easton, The Associated HOUSTON (AP) - A Palestinian man with a pilot's license entered an innocent plea today to federal charges of having a gun while living illegally in the United States and making false statements to gun dealers. Atallah Fuad Khoury, 28, of suburban Houston was arrested Sept. 18 after federal agents received a tip that he allegedly told a rental car clerk in mid-August he was two weeks away from getting a pilot's license and that she should "watch the news." Khoury, a taxi driver, told federal agents he remembered talking to the Alamo rental car clerk on Aug. 16 but he didn't advise her to watch the news. He received a pilot's license in March of this year. Federal agents are investigating whether Khoury has any connection with the attacks Sept. 11 in which four hijacked airliners were plunged into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a southwestern Pennsylvania field. He is being detained on the weapon charge and for lying that he was a US citizen on forms he filled out to buy a pistol and a shotgun. If convicted of the charges, Khoury faces up to 10 years in federal detention and a $250,000 fine for the weapon charge, and an additional sentence of up to 10 years and fine of $250,000 for the two charges of making false statements to gun dealers. His trial is scheduled for Dec. 4. before US District Judge David Hittner. During Khoury's detention hearing in September, Roy Alvinson, 64, testified that Khoury took him to the Alamo rental agency on Aug. 16 after his car was damaged in an accident. Alvinson testified Khoury said nothing about a pilot's license or watching the news, and that the conversation focused only on the vehicle inspection and rental approval. The clerk's account was "an outright lie," said Khoury's lawyer, Steve Rosen. Since his arrest, Khoury has been held without bond. He has cooperated with federal agents and voluntarily surrendered a .45-caliber pistol and 45 rounds of ammunition he kept in his bedroom. He had previously owned a shotgun, which he bought at the same Houston gun shop where he got the pistol. Khoury has acknowledged submitting false information on federal gun purchase forms that he was a U.S. citizen both when he bought the handgun in 2000 and when he bought a shotgun in 1999. Khoury, who grew up in a Palestinian section of Jerusalem, told agents he came to the United States in 1996 on a visitor visa to see his parents, who both are US citizens. Khoury's visa expired three years ago and he had yet to renew it.