Brazil Detains U.S. Jet Crew Over Gesture
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The pilot of an American Airlines jet was detained Wednesday after making an obscene gesture when being photographed at the airport as part of a newly imposed entry requirement for U.S. citizens, federal police said. Eleven crewmembers from the airplane arriving from Miami were also detained, police said. Brazil imposed requirements that Americans be fingerprinted and photographed at entry points in response the similar rules in the United States for citizens of Brazil and other countries whose citizens need visas to enter.
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10,187 posted on
01/14/2004 12:40:25 PM PST by
JustPiper
(Register Independent and Write-In Tancredo for March !!!!)
To: JustPiper
HI,
In regards to your slow posting problems...FR is acting sluggish sometimes at the moment. For whatever that is worth to you.
Revel
To: JustPiper
Brazil imposed requirements that Americans be fingerprinted and photographed at entry points in response the similar rules in the United States for citizens of Brazil and other countries whose citizens need visas to enter. Now that's what I call "fingerprinting!"
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