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                    [ArticleID] => 539865
                    [Title] => Saudi allegedly posed as pilot at Manila airport
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A 19-year-old Saudi man allegedly posing as a pilot was detained at Manila's airport after he breached security and spent several hours wandering in the terminal's restricted area, officials said Tuesday.

[DatePublished] => 2010-01-12 18:44:04 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 213045 [Title] => Saudi pilot removed from RP terrorist list [Summary] => A retired Saudi airline pilot was removed by the Bureau of Immigration from an airport watchlist of suspected terrorists that prevented him from leaving the country the past six months.

Mohammed Saed Bukhari, 66, said he received a letter from Immigration Commissioner Andrea Domingo stating that his name had been stricken from the list.

The letter was dated July 1, a day after Bukhari had sued the bureau for putting him on the blacklist without giving any explanation. His case was first published by The STAR on July 1.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1732629 [AuthorName] => Sammy Santos [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212209 [Title] => Riyadh vouches for integrity of pilot tagged as terrorist [Summary] => The Saudi embassy vouched yesterday for the integrity of a former Saudi Airlines pilot who has sued the Bureau of Immigration for tagging him as terrorist and barring him from leaving the country.

Mohammed Bukhari, 66, said immigration officials have been unable to explain why his name was put in a government blacklist of suspected terrorists.

Bukhari said he found out there was a hold departure order on him when he was stopped at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in January and has not been able to leave the country since.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1732629 [AuthorName] => Sammy Santos [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212076 [Title] => Retired Saudi pilot decries ‘bigotry,’ sues BI for terrorist tag [Summary] => A retired Saudi airline pilot has sued the Bureau of Immigration before a Manila court for accusing him as a terrorist and preventing him from leaving the country.

Mohammed Bukhari, 66, said he has been prohibited from leaving the country for the past six months and the bureau would not explain why he was included in a government blacklist of suspected terrorists.

He learned he was on the list when he was stopped at Ninoy Aquino International Airport last Jan. 8.
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