Hussain al-Kwawahir, a Saudi Arabian-citizen, was arrested today in Detroit on charges of “lying to customs officials” after he was found to have a pressure cooker in his luggage.
The 33-year-old Kwawahir was arrested immediately at Detroit Metro Airport, and told officials that the pressure cooker was a gift for his nephew, a student at the University of Toledo.
Nasser Al-Marzooq, the nephew in question, confirmed his uncle’s story, saying that he was planning to make lamb and asked his uncle to bring a pressure cooker because the one he’d bought in the US didn’t work properly.
As such it is unclear how he can still be accused of “lying” with regards to the pressure cooker, though officials also cited a “missing page” in the Saudi’s passport as another excuse for his detention.
Did he even do anything illegal?
Just another case of flying while Muslim?
more like, dummy travels with pressure cooker, hands over altered passport and gives confusing statement.
Oh, and he smelled of camel urine. Come on it's a joke. Saudis like to get Kiwis to drink camel pee pee on hot days and then youtube the event for the amusement of German businessmen. But come, seriously folks. Who would willingly fly to Detroit? I'm just saying, Saudis aren't known for their cooking. Then again, neither are the Germans…hmm. Sounds like a conspiracy. Sauerkraut lamb…a real gut-bomb. ba-da-bing.
Well, so if I want to detain you, I suppose I could tear a page out… or break a tail-light if I want to give you a ticket… what GWoT-sucker's gonna believe you?
I remember going through a foreign customs for the first time. Advice was if they ask you what's-this, tell 'em it's a 'gift,' or a 'personal possession.' …my advisers then rethought the 'gift' bit…someone might interpret that as bribing him. I don't think I got asked about anything at all. 'spect that kind of nosiness is just an USraeli thing.
Presumably, if some high profile event ostensibly involves whacking people with a herring, then TSA will also be profoundly interested in fishpapers…
Here it comes, all pressure cookers bought in the US must be registered with the feds. And the ones coming into the country should be declared upon arrival at any airport.
Just remember Jonest there is NO 2 amendment right to own a Pressure cooker, and they are weapons of mass destruction!
was the pressure cooker filled with explosives and nails? no, then nothing happened, unless you want to consider bed bath and beyond, a terrorist supply network.