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Ellison, Bachmann spar over ‘psycho talk’ (MN)
StarTribune ^ | 4/17/09 | BOB VON STERNBERG
Posted on April 17, 2009 10:57:54 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A rhetorical tiff boiled over this week between Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann and Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison.
Bachmann started it last week when she said in a radio interview that the controversial “flying imams” — six Muslim men removed from a plane at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in a well publicized incident in 2006 — had come to the Twin Cities to attend Ellison’s victory celebration following his initial election to Congress.
Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, replied Thursday that Bachmann was engaged in “psycho talk.”
According to the transcript of an interview Bachmann gave to a San Francisco talk radio station on April 9, she said: “The imams, the imams were actually attending, ah, Congressman Keith Ellison’s victory celebration, when he won as a member of Congress.” She then went on to detail the allegations made at the time about the behavior of the men.
Alerted by nervous passengers, crew members of a Phoenix-bound US Airways plane called airport police and had the men removed. They were questioned for several hours before being released without being charged.
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‘Flying imams’ can pursue claims against police, judge rules
MPLS Star & Sickle ^ | 7-24-09 | james walsh
Posted on July 24, 2009 5:06:09 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery cleared the way for their lawsuit to go to August trial. They claim their rights were violated when they were removed from their flight in the Twin Cities.
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