Oh sure That is part of my luggage tooooooo! A pressure cooker and I never leave home without that and my American Express card. He must be another Saudi Nationalist who Obama knows and both think the American People are Stupid.
Saudi man arrested in Detroit after traveling on flight with a pressure cooker for his nephew
By JAMES NYE
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A Saudi Arabian man is being held in Detroit after federal agents said he lied about why he was flying into the country with a pressure cooker, according to court documents filed on Monday.
Hussain al-Khawahir, 33, arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Saturday and was questioned about why he had brought a pressure cooker with him on a flight from Amsterdam and told investigators the pressure cooker was for his nephew, a university student in Toledo, Ohio.
The Defendant then changed his story and admitted his nephew had already purchased a pressure cooker in America before but it 'was cheap' and broke after the first use,' the complaint said.
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport: Hussain al-Khawahir, 33, arrived at the Detroit airport on Saturday and was questioned about why he had brought a pressure cooker with him
Agents said they also noticed a page was missing from Al Kwawahir's passport from Saudi Arabia. He told them he didn't how it had been removed, and said the document had been locked in a box that only he, his wife, and three children have access to in his home, according to the complaint.
Al Kwawahir was read his Miranda rights, which he said he understood, and he invoked his right to remain silent, according to the complaint.
A Monday detention hearing for Al Kwawahir was delayed and a message seeking comment about whether he has an attorney was left with a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Detroit.
Pressure cookers packed with explosive powder and shrapnel were set off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, where they killed three people and injured 264.
Twisted metal belonging to a pressure cooker used in the deadly Boston marathon bombings of April 15th
The bombs, left on the ground, caused gruesome injuries with more than 10 people losing limbs, either directly from the blasts or when doctors had to amputate the badly-mangled limbs.
The defendant appeared in federal court in Detroit on Monday to make his initial appearance on charges he altered his passport and made a materially false statement to a customs officer about the pressure cooker that was in his possession.
He is being detained pending a formal detention hearing which will occur at 1 p.m. pn Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Detroit.
Customs and Border Protection officials and the FBI declined comment.
And today, the nephew of a Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport says the case is a misunderstanding, and that the pressure cooker his uncle was bringing for him so he could make lamb.
Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam: Al-Khawahir was also charged with altering his passport because a page was torn out of the document, the complaint said
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is shown in this booking photograph released by the U.S. Marshals Service December 28, 2009
Nasser Almarzooq, told The Associated Press on Monday that he'd asked his uncle, Hussain Al Kwawahir, to bring him a pressure cooker because the ones he bought in the U.S. didn't work.
Two pressure cookers were used in last month's Boston Marathon bombings.
Almarzooq says he's concerned about his uncle and hasn't been told anything since his Saturday arrest. Almarzooq goes to the University of Toledo and says his uncle was coming to visit him for a couple weeks.
Al Kwawahir is accused of using a passport with a missing page and making false statements about why he was traveling with the pressure cooker.
On Christmas Day 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian student turned al-Qaeda operative, attempted to blow up a Detroit-bound jetliner by hiding a bomb in his underwear.
The device failed to go off, a flight attendant put out the flames and passengers subdued him.
He was sentenced on February 16th, 2012, in U.S. District Court in Detroit to multiple life sentences.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324073/Saudi-man-arrested-Detroit-traveling-flight-pressure-cooker-nephew.html#ixzz2TGV3qMWQ
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