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Nov 20, 2009 | 9:38 am

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Originally Posted by N965VJ

Well, there was a college student handcuffed and detained in PHL for 5 hours a couple of months ago. One of the reasons officials gave for this treatment?

Lt. Louis Liberati said, just as Davis did, that TSA personnel initially selected George because of something in his behavior.

But Liberati said that it was the stuff that the TSA found in George's backpack and wallet that really aroused their suspicion: the Arabic flash cards with troubling words, a card that had George's name and Arabic script, and the longer hair in George's driver's license and passport photos than his current clean-cut appearance.

That's "an indicator sometimes that somebody may have gone through a radicalization," Liberati explained.

So if someone who gets head lice away from home, shaves their head and cuts off their beard and mustache but can't update their passport/DL photos will then be detained?

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