A
college student who came to the United States as an Iraqi refugee was
removed from a Southwest Airlines flight in California earlier this
month after another passenger became alarmed when she heard him speaking
Arabic.
The
student, Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a senior at the University of
California, Berkeley, was taken off a flight from Los Angeles
International Airport to Oakland on April 6 after he called an uncle in
Baghdad to tell him about an event he attended that included a speech by
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
“I was very excited about the event so I called my uncle to tell him about it,” he said.
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