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HOMELAND SECURITY'S TERRORIST OF THE DAY

BILL GARDNER, PIONEER PRESS, MN - Marine Staff Sgt. Daniel Brown has
just spent the past eight months serving his country in Iraq, only to
return to the United States and find out his country had placed him on a
watch list as a possible terrorist. A ceremony was waiting Tuesday at
home in the Twin Cities for Brown and 26 other Marine military police
reservists returning from the war. There were eager families and
bagpipes. But Northwest Airlines wouldn't let him on the plane in Los
Angeles. His name had been flagged on the federal list.

As he worked with airport staff to gain permission to fly, the other 26
Marines arrived back in Minnesota on schedule. But rather than meet up
with their families located just minutes from the Minneapolis-St. Paul
International Airport, they opted to wait on a bus. "We don't leave
anybody behind," said Marine 1st Sgt. Drew Benson. "We start together,
and we finish together." Brown arrived more than an hour later.

"A guy goes over and serves his country fighting for eight or nine
months, and then we come home and put up with this crap?" Brown said.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/14320895.htm

ST PETERSBURG TIMES, FL - An Iraqi-born woman whose ex-husband was
lauded by Gov. Jeb Bush as a symbol of progress in Iraq was detained at
Tampa International Airport and is scheduled to be deported tonight.
Safana Jawad, 45, who lives in Spain, said federal agents told her she
was barred from the entering the country because she is connected to
someone they view as suspicious. She was being held in the Pinellas
County jail Wednesday night. Homeland Security Department agents refused
to identify the suspicious person, Jawad said. "It's a nightmare," Jawad
said in a phone interview from the jail Wednesday afternoon. "I don't
know why I'm here. I don't know why this happened. . . Zachary Mann, a
spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the Southeastern
U.S., declined to comment about Jawad.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/04/13/Northpinellas/Surprise_turns_sour_f.shtml