The daughter of a man characterized by officials as a “high ranking hamas operative” and detained for videotaping the Chesapeake Bay Bridge told the Post the video was nothing more than recording vacation memories:

” … Dua’a Elbarasse, 20, daughter of Ismael Selim Elbarasse, said her mother was trying to zoom in on boats in the bay. “We had taped our whole vacation, and we thought the bay looked really nice off the bridge,” she said. “This has been completely blown out of proportion.”

Her comments came as a Maryland Transportation Authority report on Friday’s detention revealed that three minutes of the 27-minute videotape contains footage of or from the bridge. The first 24 minutes depict Elbarasse, his wife and three children packing up their vehicle and leaving Broadkill Beach, Del., where they had rented a beach house for several days. It also has footage taken from the Kent Narrows Bridge. …