Authorities raised the terrorist threat assessment over the weekend
after new intelligence indicated that operatives of Osama bin Laden's
al-Qaida terror network, possibly trained and licensed to fly
passenger jets, may now be pilots for some foreign airlines, ideally
positioning them to carry out suicide attacks, U.S. officials told NBC
News on Monday.

I've always wondered whether that Egypt Air moron was really just suicidal,
or performing his own little jihad. It wouldn't suprise me a bit if he was
really the first al-Qaida operative to try this little twist on suicide
bombing.