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Top Indian Official Strip-Searched At U.S. Airport

HeadlineJul 13, 2004

A new book on India reveals for the first time that former Indian defense minister George Fernandes was forced to undergo strip-searches on two different occasions in Dulles Airport in Washington following the Sept. 11 attacks. On one trip Fernandes was strip-searched as he arrived in Washington on an official trip.

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