Talal al Rouki was cooking a traditional Saudi Arabian rice dish called kabsah with his pressure cooker, and carried it over to his friend's house. In a post-Boston Marathon bombing world, this was, perhaps, a tactical miscalculation.
Acting on a tip from a neighbor, the FBI arrived at Rouki's Michigan home and questioned him. "They asked me about my major, when I arrived in the U.S. and what I do in my spare time," Rouki told a Saudi newspaper. "You need to be more careful moving around with such things," the FBI told Rouki. Because we're still in the mandated culture of fear that follows any national tragedy.
