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Iraqi-Americans removed from flight for speaking Arabic

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Want to get the news the media buries? Get Raw headlines in your browser. NBC News reported Thursday on an incident at the San Diego airport in which "an American airlines flight to Chicago was delayed because a passenger was scared of several Arabic-speaking men on board."

"Those men she heard talking? They were Iraqi-Americans, in town to train US Marines at Camp Pendleton," explained NBC's Brian Williams. The men were removed from the plane and questioned briefly before being released. The flight was canceled and all passengers caught other flights the next day.

Al-Arabiya News in Dubai interviewed one of the six men, who explained that their company has a contract with the US government for defense training. "I do not know why they treated us this way," he said. "We actually came to help the Americans." Another of the men told a local news station, "How can we be bad if we are helping our people here – American people? Why are we getting treated like that?"

The following video clips is from NBC's Nightly News and Al-Arabiya News in Dubai, U.A.E. Both clips were broadcast on August 30.