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Afifi's father, Aladdin Afifi, was a U.S. citizen and former president of the Muslim Community Association here, before his family moved to Egypt in 2003. Yasir Afifi returned to the U.S. alone in 2008, while his father and brothers stayed in Egypt, to further his education he said. He knows he's on a federal watchlist and is regularly taken aside at airports for secondary screening.

I wouldn't be too sure that they shouldn't be watching him. But they got a bit careless, I guess.

I agree and I wonder if this story was even verified this started as a post on reddit and then liberals at wired had it of course unauthenticated and see who his lawyer us

Afifi’s attorney, who works for the civil liberties-focused Council on American Islamic Relations, said this kind of tracking is more egregious than the kind her office usually sees.

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