LATIF: Well, when I asked her why, you know, she said, well, we received some message from somewhere. And the receptionist basically told us that we couldn't board the plane. He handed us back our passports and he put us in a business class line and we waited there for a while. And when he confirmed that we were, he took our passports and he started to speak on his cell phone. LATIF: We made it to the airport, the outside baggage check gentleman approached us and he asked the porter were we traveling back to the United States. You went to the airport with your family to come back to the U.S. He's filed suit on behalf of Latif, as we said, and nine other American citizens who have apparently been placed on the no-fly list. And with us from our bureau in New York is ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner. But to start, Ayman Latif joins us on the phone from Alexandria, Egypt. In a few minutes, we'll speak with a former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. government can ban a citizen from his own country. We were intrigued by the question of under what authority the U.S.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit on his behalf and nine other American citizens who believe they have been wrongly subjected to the flight ban. And he's not alone in being in limbo about his status. He says he has spent months trying to figure out if he is indeed on the no-fly list, why he may have been placed on the list. This is exactly what happened to Ayman Latif. Now, it might sound like something out of a Cold War era novel, but it is not. The husband had apparently been placed on the no-fly list, barred from getting on a plane back to his own country. Earlier this year, after getting settled in their new home, they went to the airport to make a trip back to visit family in the U.S., but they never made it. citizen, a former Marine, in fact, along with his wife and daughter, moved to Egypt from Miami in 2008. It's actually much more important than that.
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