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T/We Aug 10 -

KHALID ON ICE -

How did I miss this??? Khalid Jarrar
was arrested by the new Iraqi MI5. This
entire episode whizzed right past me!

Then finally I understood why I was there, after few hours. Security guards at the university had printed out all the websites I was reading while I was online there. They were accusing me of "reading terrorism sites" and "having communications with foreign terrorists."

"Do you know what these
pages are?" [he asked me].

I looked at them and figured out they were the comment section of Raed in the Middle!!

I had opened the comments section while browsing in the university, read some comments, and didn’t even post anything.

Well, fancy that! MI5 suspected that his brother Raed's blog was some sort of gathering place for terrorists. How could they have thunk such a thing?! Now, there's a real thumb-sucker for you to mull over :-)

Anyhoo, they finally figured out that Khalid is just a mixed-up teenager. And they let him go. But not before lots of Americans and others apparently wrote to the authorities on his behalf.

Glad to learn that he was exonerated.

:: KHALID'S BLOG: perma ::

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