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January 28, 2015

Justice Department to Pay $25,000 to Student Detained for Arabic Flashcards 
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The Justice Department has agreed to pay $25,000 to a college student
who was detained at an airport for five hours in 2009 for having
Arabic-language flashcards in his pocket. The student, Nicholas George,
was studying Arabic and had visited several Mideast countries through a
summer study program. His flashcards included the words "bomb" and "to
kill." One Transportation Security Administration supervisor
interrogating him asked about the Sept. 11 attacks and noted that Osama
bin Laden also spoke Arabic.

 

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