[sometime lurker]

trip to Pakistan when Americans weren't free to travel there etc-

This is a long debunked internet myth. Repeating such myths doesn't help anyone's credibility.

[little jeremiah]

It was hard for people Americans to go to Pakistan, not impossible. But it was not easy at all.

Of course, if 0h0m0 had an Indonesian passport - a nice Moslem country - he would have had no trouble at all going there with his Muzzie pals.