Yesterday, September 13, 2006 the charges against Amin were dropped. But Amin swears he is not going to be traveling with the pump any more because it gives him a lot of trouble. Stated hereunder is how Amin got into trouble with TSA U.S. Transportation and Security Administration. His attorney claimed that from "right from the get-go, it made no sense that a guy who had worked as a translator for the U.S. Army in Iraq wouldn't know the consquences of saying, 'I have a bomb'." Apparently the misunderstandings were brought about by his accent coupled with the fact that he didnt want to be embarrassed in the presence
of his mother by explaining what he was actually carrying. Unwilling to openly say the words penis pump while his mother stood nearby, Amin twice whispered something that, according to Amin, the guard misinterpreted as bomb'.
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Bum Rap at O'Hare Security Check-In
Penis Pump or Bomb?
By Counter Punch News Service
Mardin Amin, an Iraqi arrested at O'Hare airport now faces serious felony charges of disorderly conduct. He could get three years in prison. A female security guard claims Amin uttered the word "bomb" when she was examining a small black squeezable object she'd taken from his bag.
For his part, Amin, on his way to Turkey with his mother and his children, claims he was whispering to his mother that it was a "pump" in fact a penis pump.
The judge believed the security guard and now Amin faces the felony charges.
Counter Puncher and Arabic-speaker David Price clarifies
the affair.
"As an anthropologist and Arabic speaker," Price tells Counterpunch," let me call attention to a vital aspect of this story. Simply put, Arabic has no 'Ps' and all native Arabic speakers voice their bilabials as 'Bs', thus it is pretty obvious that any native Arabic speaker with an accent would say the word 'pump' as the word 'bumb' --which the poorly-trained and overly paranoid airport security worker mis-heard as 'bomb.'
"As has happened here, with newspapers such as the Chicago Sun Times, news pieces with the words 'penis pump' will generate guffaws from sea to shinning sea, but by not stating what the obvious context of this misunderstanding is, the Sun Times is adding to a dangerous climate of American anti-Arab sentiment."
"As has happened here, with newspapers such as the Chicago Sun Times, news pieces with the words 'penis pump' will generate guffaws from sea to shinning sea, but by not stating what the obvious context of this misunderstanding is, the Sun Times is adding to a dangerous climate of American anti-Arab sentiment."
Professor Price urges the chortling scriveners and newsreaders of Chicago
After Wednesday's hearing, Amin said airport security officials never gave him an opportunity to explain the misunderstanding. And he said he would never utter the word "bomb" while going through security
"Come on -- what do you think?" said Amin, who lives in Skokie and works for a janitorial service.
After Wednesday's hearing, Amin said airport security officials never gave him an opportunity to explain the misunderstanding. And he said he would never utter the word "bomb" while going through security
"Come on -- what do you think?" said Amin, who lives in Skokie and works for a janitorial service.
Amin does not consider the pump unusual.
"It's normal,"
he said. "Half of America
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