WASHINGTON, May 12 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Fahad Alhajri, a Qatar native accused in a scam to help foreign students fraudulently stay in the United States was denied bail after prosecutors said he had possible connections to the September 11 attacks, the Washington Post reported.

Magistrate Judge Tommy E. Miller, denied Alhajri bail Friday, claiming he was a flight risk, and asserting that he had lived a "nomadic existence" since coming to the United States in 1999 and has no family in this country, the daily went on to state.

U.S. investigators probing visa fraud found a flight manual, a hand-drawn picture of a plane striking the World Trade Center and a datebook with a single entry for September 11 at a northern Virginia home Friday, search warrants show.

The items were seized as part of an investigation into a scheme to obtain student visas under false pretenses, which has led to the arrest of 56 men and women of Middle Eastern origin in various parts of the United States.

The suspects are accused of paying impostors between $1,000 and $5,000 to pass a college entrance exam in English on their behalf. Passing the exam is a requirement for entering the United States on a student visa.

The FBI and other agencies are now investigating whether any of the suspects are linked to the September 11 attacks and Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.

Search warrants filed Wednesday in Norfolk, Virginia, described evidence seized from a northern Virginia home, although they did not identify where the home is located or who lives there.

At the property, law enforcement officials allegedly uncovered a student flight manual, a book identifying commercial airliners, an aerial shot of the Pentagon and a datebook featuring a lone, poorly spelled entry for September 11, reading as, "Trackd the World Trade Center or the Pentagon trackd for the plaen."

Officials also found a drawing of a plane striking one of the twin World Trade Center towers, a Rolodex including the locations of oil refineries, videos titled "Incredible Air Disasters" and "Incredible Water Disasters" and photographs of men posing inside and outside the twin towers.

Court documents also showed that four individuals not connected to that home had been arrested in Hampton Roads, near Norfolk in southeastern Virginia, and charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud.

Among them was Alhajri, 28. The three others - Asmaa Al-Themairi, 26, Hamad Alzoman, 31, and Abdulaziz Alsaadoun, 28, all Saudi nationals - were released and were expected to appear in court later this month. Federal officials said they have not been linked to a terrorist organization.

Investigators also claim to have found a CD-ROM with the words "Gainesville," a town in Florida, and "flight school" written on it. The disk was found in the car of a fifth Norfolk-area suspect, Saudi national Saeed Alhajri, 27, who has already returned to Saudi Arabia.

According to the Post, Assistant U.S. Attorney Darryl Mitchell said Alhajri's credit card was used to buy round-trip airline tickets and reserve a hotel room for three Middle Eastern men who flew from Washington to Los Angeles in August. When they checked out, they left clothing that looked like airline pilot uniforms and a cell phone that had been used to call Alhajri, Mitchell said, the paper continued.

Mitchell also went on to state that instead of flying back to Washington, the men went to London and then Qatar. The plane they were supposed to have taken back to Washington on September 10 was the one that crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, Mitchell said, the Post reported.

However, Alhajri’s defense lawyers challenged the prosecution, stating that the FBI interviewed Alhajri four times last fall and found no evidence linking him to the terrorist attacks.

Civil rights leaders in the U.S. have vehemently accused the U.S. government of going on a broad net fishing expedition that solely targets Muslims and Arabs because of their faith and/or ethnicity.

The U.S. has detained over 1300 Muslims/Arabs since September 11. None of the detentions have resulted in any charges except in regards to one man who was accused of knowing one of the alleged September 11 attackers.

A judge recently threw out the case against him, citing that the U.S. government acted improperly and cannot arrest material witnesses.