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Nov 20, 2009 | 10:18 am
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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.
and yet another fine example of tsa overstepping its bounds where they are only to search for wei's
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