Canadian authorities later investigated allegations that he had lied to immigration authorities about his past when he arrived there.

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Mr Tazhayakov was not sent to a second officer when he arrived, because there was no information to indicate he was a national security threat, said Peter Boogaard, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security.

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In 1974, giant pandas Chia Chia and Ching Ching, gifts from China to British Prime Minister Edward Heath when he visited there in 1973, arrived in London.

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When he arrived, two police officers were there.

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When he arrived, he spent 10 minutes alone there, reading a note left for him on a desk by outgoing President George W. Bush.

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Yet he was there when the time of reckoning arrived, when the world needed someone to come through.

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He said he realised something was wrong when he arrived in Washington and Mr Mallon was not there.

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Coffeen apparently acted very strangely when police arrived (not that he had been acting normally before that), so there is likely more to the plea than a claimed overconsumption of Red Bull.

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"When I arrived, there were a lot of stereotypes and a certain bias against Asians, " he says.

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