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Plane refuses passengers in unsuitable T-shirts

In a crazy twist on increased airline security, two men were ordered off a JMC flight from Gatwick to Malaga – for wearing T-shirts with pictures (and excerpts from a speech about world peace) of Ethiopia’s last emperor, Haile Selassie. It seems the stewardess thought the portrait was of Osama bin Laden. The airline refused a refund and the two men plan legal action.

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