Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A Saudi Arabian man was arrested at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Monday after authorities say he changed his story about why he carried a pressure cooker onto a plane, Reuters reports.
Hussain al-Khawahir, 33, first said he was taking the pressure cooker to a nephew.
“The Defendant then changed his story and admitted his nephew had purchased a pressure cooker in America before but it ‘was cheap’ and broke after the first use,” the complaint said.
A pressure cooker packed with explosive powder and shrapnel was used in the Boston Marathon bombing.
Al-Khawahir also was charged with altering his passport after a page was ripped out of it.
