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Harold & Kumar comedian mistaken for a terrorist by Russian ambassador

on Oct 22, 2015 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

The Russian Ambassador to the UK has been left red-faced after inadvertently tweeting a still from 2008 movie ‘Harold & Kumar Escaoe from Guantanamo Bay’, believing it to depict a genuine terrorist.

Alexander Yakovenko was trying to illustrate a political point criticising US moves to block Russian involvement in the country but unwittingly chose a screenshot depicting actor Kal Penn playing the part of Kumar Patel as an extremist arguing with an elderly female passenger on an aircraft.

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Source: The Drum