Detained for having Arabic flashcards
A California college student was detained for five hours at Philadelphia’s airport for having Arabic flashcards in his luggage. Nick George says he should have been released after he showed ID and explained that he was teaching himself Arabic. Instead, he says, he was handcuffed and thrown into a holding cell where a TSA official asked him, “Do you know what language Osama bin Laden spoke?”
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