American held at Cairo airport with weapons
Wed May 12, 2010 11:39am EDT
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian-American was arrested at Cairo airport on Tuesday night after arriving on a direct flight from New York carrying two pistols, 250 bullets, two swords and 11 knives in his luggage, airport officials said.
It was not immediately clear how Mohamed Ibrahim, a university botany professor teaching in the United States, was able to get through security in New York and board the plane.
Ibrahim, who is of Egyptian origin, was detained on accusations of trying to smuggle the arms into the country. It is illegal to import weapons into Egypt without a permit.
No other details were available of the New York airport involved or the airline.
For you young immortals out there, this is why antiques dealers and historians make for the best cover stories. They can carry a lot of weapons around as long as they call them relics or something. Conversely, there's no good reason why a botany professor would need so much hardware. Unless he's expecting to run into a really dangerous plant.
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