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Man arrested at airport for alqaeda joke { September 2007 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/10/01/man_arrested_for_airport_alqaida_joke/5748/ http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/10/01/man_arrested_for_airport_alqaida_joke/5748/ Man arrested for airport al-Qaida joke Published: 1, 2007 at 11:41 PM BOSTON, 1 (UPI) -- A Washington taxi driver faces a criminal charge because he joked about being a member of al-Qaida to an airline worker in Boston. Ermiyaf A. Asfaw, an Ethiopian national, was returning to Washington from a visit to his girlfriend Saturday when an Air-Tran check-in employee asked him about stickers on his luggage from Dubai. He told her he had been in the United Arab Emirates. "No. I'm al-Qaida. I'm with them, and I'm here to blow things up," he said when she asked if it had been a trip for business or pleasure. Asfaw has been charged with making a false bomb threat. A judge set bail Monday at $1,500. "This airport is not going to tolerate this type of behavior," said Phil Orlandella, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority. "This type of action is completely dumb." © Copyright United Press International. All Rights Reserved.

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