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Want to know which twelve passports will instantly get you shunted over for secondary screening, simply by showing them to the ID-checking agent? Cuba, Iran, N
by wgj 17y ago
Want to know which twelve passports will instantly get you shunted over for secondary screening, simply by showing them to the ID-checking agent?
Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, or Algeria
- staunch 17y agoThat's such an obvious list I'm not sure if it's from the document itself, or if you just wrote down what it would probably be.
- endtime 17y agoI was a little surprised about Cuba. They're not our favorite government, but I don't see them as a security risk.
- JimmyL 17y agoCuba (along with Syria, Sudan, and Iran) compromise the State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism - which I would assume is the origin of their being on that list.
- oiuytgfhn 17y agoAre you serious!!!! America has been living under the shadow of imminent Cuban aggression for 50years. There have been Cuban attempts to invade America and numerous assassination attempts on the US president by Cuban agents. And their chemical weapons kill 1000s of Americans after being secretly delivered from Canada.
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- anigbrowl 17y agoApparently your sense of humor is too subtle for some other HNers!
- Beanblabber 17y agoOr perhaps a bit too blunt.
- Dilpil 17y agoThe countries on the list are there more for "Screw you" reasons than actual security. That is why Cuba is on the list, and possibly first.
- wgj 17y agoIt's from the doc.
- sage_joch 17y agoThe absence of Saudi Arabia is pretty interesting.
- naz 17y agoRight, didn't half the 9/11 hijackers have Saudi passports? They wouldn't even get secondary.
- rfreytag 17y agoNone of the 9/11 hijackers' nationalities are represented (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE), excepting Lebanon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizers_of_the_September_11,_2001_attacks#List_of_the_hijackers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizers_of_the_September_11,...
- jcromartie 17y agoYes, but the Saudis are our rich friends so we wouldn't want to bother them with anything like pursuing real justice.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoSounds like George Carlin's seven words you can't say on TV.