Here's something else to add to the Transportation Safety Administration training manual. It's a simple six-point terrorist screening test I have just devised: If you notice that a traveler is carrying Arabic-English flashcards, and that person already speaks fluent English,…
We don’t know for sure, but there are theories.
HINT: it involves extradition.
Took them 700 years or so, but they got him.
Think carefully before accepting this offer. And then don’t accept it.
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