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Old Jan 30, 2012 | 6:05 am
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British tourists arrested on terror charges over Twitter joke
Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'.

Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers for 12 hours after landing in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1kwjCc4Z9
They are very unfortunate. There are loads of various activists travelling these days and communicating via Twitter I'm surprised they dont get picked up.
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