When I asked the second one to please be gentle with my injured back, she gave me a sharp jab instead. I was required yet again to undergo a body search and to have my purse and carry-on emptied. I was required to undergo a final interrogation in the small open area where the boarding ramp meets the aircraft. To the Customs and Border Protection agents who would conduct a three-and-a-half-hour interrogation upon my return to LAX in March, this CD was highly suspect. Eventually one of the agents pounced, as if catching me at last in a deception: “You went to Gaziantep — Gaziantep, a border city!

Source: Los Angeles Times April 07, 2017 11:00 UTC