The interesting bit is at the end of the story ABC is reporting:
It took Chagoury, a well-known philanthropist and an ambassador to the United Nations educational office, more than four months and thousands of dollars in legal fees to get the U.S. government to offer an apology and to give him a waiver to fly freely across U.S. airspace.
Some people are so rich they can pay their way out of airport security. Oh, I know that he is a philanthropist. It is just that he has had some bad choices in friends.
But I guess we all know the feeling of that sting.