Turn7
07-15-05, 02:59 PM
They should fire the person that hired that dillweed as well!
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3267228
A Houston-based rapper said his decision to call himself the "Arabic Assassin" was meant to stir up a bit of controversy in the music business.
The stage persona — along with some incendiary lyrics in one of his songs — also helped get Bassam Khalaf fired this month from his job as a baggage screener at Bush Intercontinental Airport.
"I thought it was kind of ridiculous. What does my music have to do with my job?" Khalaf said Thursday.
He lost his job July 7, about six months after he joined the Transportation Security Administration as a baggage screener.
"He was fired because of threatening language that undermines the public's trust in the agency," said Andrea McCauley, spokeswoman for the TSA's regional office in Dallas.
According to the termination letter Khalaf received, his songs "applaud the efforts of the terrorists on September 11th, encourage and warn of future acts of terrorism by you, discuss at length and in grave and alarming detail various criminal acts you intend to commit, state your belief that the U.S. government should be overthrown, and finally warn that others will die on September 11, 2005," The Associated Press reported.
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3267228
A Houston-based rapper said his decision to call himself the "Arabic Assassin" was meant to stir up a bit of controversy in the music business.
The stage persona — along with some incendiary lyrics in one of his songs — also helped get Bassam Khalaf fired this month from his job as a baggage screener at Bush Intercontinental Airport.
"I thought it was kind of ridiculous. What does my music have to do with my job?" Khalaf said Thursday.
He lost his job July 7, about six months after he joined the Transportation Security Administration as a baggage screener.
"He was fired because of threatening language that undermines the public's trust in the agency," said Andrea McCauley, spokeswoman for the TSA's regional office in Dallas.
According to the termination letter Khalaf received, his songs "applaud the efforts of the terrorists on September 11th, encourage and warn of future acts of terrorism by you, discuss at length and in grave and alarming detail various criminal acts you intend to commit, state your belief that the U.S. government should be overthrown, and finally warn that others will die on September 11, 2005," The Associated Press reported.
continue reading by clicking here (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3267228)