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Mon Feb-15-10 04:12 PM
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| Paranoid TSA checkpoint agents arrest man over harmless Arabic flashcards (VIDEO) |
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Mon Feb-15-10 04:22 PM
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| 1. I hope the TSA agent is fired and they clean house. |
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Mon Feb-15-10 04:27 PM
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As it was, the flashcards were teaching him words like "hijack" and "bomb" and "terrorist" and "explosives." That's what aroused the TSA's suspicions. Of a few hundred flash cards, a disproportionate number of them were just those words you're "not even supposed to joke about" at the airport security checkpoints. Now as it turned out, the student had a reasonable explanation- those words had been taken from newspaper headlines, mostly about terrorism, which the student had been using to teach himself Arabic.
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That's some shark-jumping, crazy stuff. :crazy:
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