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Jul 16, 2014, 12:17 am

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Originally Posted by Indelaware

And what could possibly be wrong with a TSA agent knowing Arabic? Perhpas a bit of bigotry at play?

Wouldn't it add to security if every TSA agent was fluent in each of the world's languages (there are 1000s, BTW) - or at least in more than one major one (English is one and Arabic is certainly another)?

I believe the flash card reference was this one where a student was detained because he had Arabic flash cards.
http://rt.com/usa/tsa-arrest-arabic-...rds-court-845/

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