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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (11097)	8/27/2006 5:29:50 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 14758

Mispronunciation or Bad Hearing or Ignorance or What? "Half of America --- they use it" Maybe it would have been different if it had been a male baggage mail screener. But the female agent did not recognise the squeezable rubber object she pulled out of Mardin Azad Amir's backpack. When she asked what it was, he mumbled a reply. She heard the word "bomb" and he was immediately detained at Chicago's O'Hare airport, police said. In court on Wednesday, prosecutors said Amir twice called it bomb because he did not want his mother --- who was standing nearby --- to know he used a penis pump, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Amir's lawyers said he mumbled the word "pump" and the security guard just did not hear him properly. The 29-year old Iraqi immigrant, who was on his way to Turkey with his mother and two young children, said he would never be so foolish to utter the word "bomb" in an airport. While he was embarrassed to have to tell his mother about it, Amir aid there is nothing unusual about taking the pump on holiday. "It's normal," he told the Sun-Times after court. "Half of America, they use it." --- Agence France-Press