So he carried some Arabic-English flashcards in his pocket to study on the plane. But those flashcards changed George’s life far beyond the classroom.

This is an update on a story I mentioned in 2010 ("TSA Detains Possible Terrorist Armed With Flashcards"), and today's update shows that the government's contempt for the Fourth Amendment rages on ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A college student detained at an airport for five hours in 2009 over Arabic language flashcards that included the words "bomb" and "to kill" has won a $25,000 settlement from the ...

Five years ago, the Philadelphia police thought that carrying Arabic-language flashcards was enough to warrant the arrest of an innocent traveler. A settlement reached today in a lawsuit I brought ...

Nick George was on his way to start his senior year at California’s Pomona College in August 2009 when he was detained, aggressively interrogated, handcuffed, and locked in a jail cell for nearly five ...

LOS ANGELES — A college student who says he was detained at a Philadelphia airport because he was carrying English-Arabic flashcards filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against employees of the ...

Is studying Arabic in college something that should land you in jail? The Transportation Security Administration has ``behavior detection'' officers roaming airports looking for suspicious ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A college student detained at an airport for five hours in 2009 over Arabic language flashcards in his pocket that included the words "bomb" and "to kill" has won a $25,000 ...

The $25,000 settlement (PDF)—dated Wednesday—ends five years of litigation that commenced after Nicholas George was detained for having Arabic-English flashcards with words like "terrorist ...

A California college student was detained for five hours at Philadelphia’s airport for having Arabic flashcards in his luggage. The Week. US Edition. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE. Less than $3 per week.

The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay $25,000 to Nicholas George, a Google programmer who as a student in 2009 was detained at airport security because of his Arabic flashcards, the Associated ...

PHILADELPHIA — A former college student who was detained for several hours at an airport after he was found carrying Arabic-language flashcards lost his bid to sue federal agents. Nicholas Ge… ...