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In the lawsuit filed in federal court last week, Hooman Nikizad said his wait of more than 90 minutes on March 19 before he passed through security screening by the federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) made him miss his afternoon flight to Los Angeles.
"I had to buy a ticket with another airline to be able to make my destination and meet my obligations," Nikizad said in his claim, which noted the TSA had limited staff on duty at the time and "only one body scanner for the regular security line [in operation]."
Nikizad, a resident surgeon with the University of Minnesota, said in his suit that the TSA and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport "have done a very poor job of getting passengers through security."
The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper said the Russian bomber was from Daghestan, which borders restive Chechnya.
The Kyrgyz security service declined to comment, while the Uzbek security service could not immediately be reached.
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Separately, security forces killed two suspected IS militants at the border with Syria, Turkish media reported on June 30.
The Anadolu Agency, citing unnamed security sources, says the two Syrian nationals were killed on June 25 while trying to cross the border illegally and ignored security forces warnings to stop.
One of the two militants was wanted by Turkey on suspicion that he would carry out suicide attacks in the capital, Ankara, or in the southern city of Adana, Anadolu said.
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