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Old Aug 15, 2009, 6:25 am
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Bollywood Film Star Detained at EWR
Bollywood Star Detained at U.S. Airport

8-15-09
Associated Press

NEW DELHI -- Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was detained for two hours for questioning at a U.S. airport before being released by immigration authorities, a news agency report said Saturday.

Mr. Khan, one of the Indian film industry's biggest stars, said he was detained because his name came up on a computer alert list at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, Press Trust of India news agency said.

"I told them I am a movie star," Mr. Khan was quoted as saying.

The reported detention made top news on TV stations in India.

Mr. Khan said he was able to message a lawmaker in India who asked the Indian embassy in Washington to seek his release. Mr. Khan was let go after embassy officials intervened, the agency said.
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Old Aug 15, 2009, 6:42 am
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"Shah Rukh Khan, the actor and global icon, is a very welcome guest in the United States. Many Americans love his films," Mr. Roemer said Saturday through an embassy spokesman.
Quite the welcome for a very welcome guest, eh? Apparently the State doesn't love his films.

He was fortunate to have his embassy intervene. What would have happened to an average Indian citizen in his situation?
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Old Aug 15, 2009, 9:24 am
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and ewr strikes again......

i don't buy the b/s that his "name up on a computer alert list" at all and i'm sure as an open net goal that he has been into and out of the u.s. on more than one occasion. imho, it just doesn't pay to be brown
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Lawsuit potential...???
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Old Aug 15, 2009, 10:04 am
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Lawsuit potential...???
Not a chance in hell.
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Old Aug 15, 2009, 11:26 am
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Lawsuit potential...???
Not a chance in hell.
agreed-ain't never gonna happen
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This is great. He had just finished a film in the US about racial profiling of muslims in America. Truth is always more entertaining than fiction.
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If yer named Khan yo must be terrist.
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Who was the customs agent? James T. Kirk? (insert SFX from Star Trek II: "KHAAAAAAAN")
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Old Aug 15, 2009, 3:05 pm
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Hermes in Paris didn't know Oprah was a big star either...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...062302086.html

Pretty tough life for these regional celebs
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Old Aug 15, 2009, 3:52 pm
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This is great. He had just finished a film in the US about racial profiling of muslims in America. Truth is always more entertaining than fiction.
No doubt someone put him on the list as an anti-American activist.
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Aw, give TSA a break for once, people. They must simply have confused him with this famous terry'wrist...
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Old Aug 15, 2009, 8:11 pm
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Aw, give TSA a break for once, people. They must simply have confused him with this famous terry'wrist...
Since when was the TSA involved?
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CNN has picked up the story . . .

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/15/ind...tor/index.html
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Old Aug 15, 2009, 10:00 pm
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Apparently this has now attained the status of an International Incident. I wonder if the CPB clown who initiated this has been identified?
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