Washington, March 3 (RHC)-- The U.S. 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. One Transportation Security Administration supervisor interrogating him asked about the September 11th attacks and noted that Osama bin Laden also spoke Arabic.
