The female airport security guard h...

The female airport security guard held the small, black, squeezable rubber view she'd just plucked out of Mardin Amin's backpack, and ey it suspiciously.

Standing nearest to his mother, an embarrassed Amin whispered public of one corner of his opening that it was a "pump" -- as in a penis cross-examine The guard misunderstood the Iraqi man and contemplation she heard the word "bomb" Amin's attorney told a give a color to County judge Wednesday.

"He told her it's a pump" attorney Eileen O'Neill-Burke said as a cluster of coarse and rough snickering police officers watched the court proceedings. "He's standing with his mother. Of course he's not going to halloo this out."

still after listening to the female guard testify she heard Amin "clearly" say the word bomb during the Aug. 16 incident at O'Hare Airport, arbitrator Gerald Winiecki decided there was enough evidence for the case to incline forward. Amin, 29, is charged with crime disorderly conduct and faces up to three years in prison if convicted.

HID IT FROM MOM

Prosecutors say Amin, who was forward his way to Turkey with his mother and couple small children last week, twice told security officials that he was carrying a bomb simply later did he admit he had initially lied about the rubber object's veracious function because he didn't want his mother to know he was carrying a penis cross-examine prosecutors say.

After Wednesday's hearing, a chiefly jovial Amin said airport security officials not ever gave him an opportunity to explain the misunderstanding. And he said he would not at all utter the word "bomb" while going between the walls of security.

'HALF OF AMERICA' USES IT

"Come forward -- what do you think?" said Amin, who lives in Skokie and works for a janitorial service.

Amin may not want his mother to know he has a penis cross-question but he said he doesn't consider it an unusual device to have a title to

"It's normal," he said. "Half of America they use it."

Amin is becoming back in court Sept. 13

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