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Saturday, February 4th, 2017

Former Norwegian prime minister detained at Dulles Airport for an hour. He visited Iran in 2014.

Author:     Samantha Schmidt
Source:     The Washington Post
Publication Date:     February 3 at 5:22 AM
 Link: Former Norwegian prime minister detained at Dulles Airport for an hour. He visited Iran in 2014.
Stephan:   I read this morning of the chaos produced by the Trump Administration's suspension of visas, and then I came to this, and I thought, what are we becoming as a country? Entering the U.S., as I have done many times, is becoming increasingly the experience of entering a police state. And on top of that there is the buffoonery. You would think anyone with an IQ higher than their shoe size would have understood that a Scandinavian man travelling on a diplomatic passport, in which were printed the words former Prime Minister would not have been mistaken for a Islamic Jihadist.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/03/former-norwegian-prime-minister-detained-at-dulles-airport-for-an-hour-he-visited-iran-in-2014/

As Kjell Magne Bondevik was preparing for his visit to the United States for this week’s National Prayer Breakfast, he had reason to believe the trip would be seamless. After all, he is the former prime minister of Norway — a U.S. ally in NATO — and has traveled to and from the U.S. on numerous occasions.

His office contacted the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, and was told his passport and a separate electronic travel authorization would be enough for entry into the country.

But after flying into Dulles International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, he was detained and questioned for about an hour, all because of a passport stamp. His passport — which clearly stated he is the former prime minister of Norway — indicated he had taken a 2014 trip to Iran, where Bondevik said he had attended a human rights conference.

“I was surprised, and I was provoked,” he told WJLA ABC7. “What will the reputation of the U.S. be if this happens not only to me, but also to other international leaders?”

Bondevik contacted the […]

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1 Comment

  1. Mark R on Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 7:09 am

    Sorry to hear our Norwegian friend got caught up in our police state. I am also sorry to say the police state has been here for a while…slowly boiling our frog. Trumpster just put into higher gear at the moment. The only people who are truly free in this land are the criminals of the deep state pulling the strings of our institutions and their beneficiaries..