America, Land of the Free, Until You Get on the Passenger Watch List

The Focus – August 24th, 2008 by Don

Cisco employee Mohamed Shommo wants the feds to investigate him. Shommo, who works in technical marketing, is convinced he was put on a terrorist watch list after he became upset during a too-long secondary search in February 2006. Now every time he flies back into the country, government agents diligently troll through the files on his computer, the papers in his wallet and the photos in his digital camera.

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Finally some one, decided that enough was enough, and has had the guts to fight back, however if they did this to you, Would you not Fight Back also Excerpt Below.

The case arose after a Malaysian woman studying at Stanford attempted to fly from San Francisco to Malaysia in January 2005, but United Airlines identified Rahinah Ibrahim as being on the no-fly list. The airline contacted the police, who called the TSA’s intelligence service. There an employee named John Bondanella told police to detain and question Ibrahim, and call the FBI. Ibrahim was handcuffed in front of her 14-year-old daughter and taken to the police station, where she was held for two hours until the FBI called to say let her go.

Full Story Here, Wired Blog

Dodgypress, will not be flying to the US any time soon. Old Pals Georgie and Cheney, may not like what I have had to say about them.

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