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International

Sep. 13, 2006

U.S. Won't Readmit S.F. Professor

SAN FRANCISCO - Mohammad Salama once taught U.S. soldiers headed to Iraq how to say basic words in Arabic. Now the government is refusing to let the San Francisco State University professor back into the country because his name, a common one in the Arab world, raised a red flag during a security background check.

By Laura Ernde
Daily Journal Staff Writer
     
SAN FRANCISCO - Mohammad Salama once taught U.S. soldiers headed to Iraq how to say basic words in Arabic.
      Now the government is refusing to let the San Francisco State University professor back into the country because his name, a common one in the Arab world, raised a red flag during a security background check.
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