Posted on 09/21/2004 7:05:56 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
WASHINGTON - A plane bound for Washington from London was diverted to Maine on Tuesday after passenger Yusuf Islam — formerly known as pop singer Cat Stevens (news) — showed up on a U.S. watch list, federal officials said.
United Airlines Flight 919 had already taken off from London en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made between the passenger and the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration.
The plane was met by federal agents at Maine's Bangor International Airport around 3 p.m., Melendez said.
Federal officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the individual as Islam.
One official said Islam, 56, was identified by the Advanced Passenger Information System, which requires airlines to send passenger information to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's National Targeting Center. TSA was then contacted and requested that the plane land at the nearest airport, the official said.
"He was interviewed and denied admission to the United States on national security grounds," said Homeland Security spokesman Dennis Murphy. He said the man would be put on the first available flight out of the country Wednesday.
Islam, who was born Stephen Georgiou, took Cat Stevens as a stage name and had a string of hits in the 1960s and '70s, including "Wild World" and "Morning Has Broken." Last year he released two songs, including a re-recording of his '70s hit "Peace Train," to express his opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq (news - web sites).
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See post #11.
Don't stop it now, stop it now -- shake shake shake; shake shake shake; shake your booty. Sorry MO, don't know what came over me. It's gonna take a lot of love, to change the way things are.
Not Helen Reddy...I just saw Pete's Dragon last week at the Dr.'s office...I can't deal with it....oooh nooooo....
There is one mosque in particular, in London, where a radical cleric is turning people into radical muslims and then sending them out onto an unspecting world -- by any chance is he a product of that mosque?
He was being chased by his moon god's shadow.
But it's daybreak, if you'll only believe, it can be daybreak. (Only good song he ever wrote was the McDonald's jingle.)
Helen Reddy was certainly the muse of Feminazis' in the 70s...I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers to big to ignore...
"THATS THE WAY ah ha I LIKE IT ah ha ah ha, DO DO DO DO DO DO"
Big old Ruby Red Dress -- Delta Dawn -- I hated everything she ever made. It's ooohhhhh so peaceful here. Man, is she a period piece.
Get down tonight!!
I feel like I should be getting ready to watch Wolfman Jack!!
Do you really want to hurt me?
And speaking of Bette, It must have grown cold there in my shadow, never knowing sunlight on your face...
Karma, karma, karma chameleon, you come and go, you come and goooo.....
Hey, don't "Get drunk and s---w" with the Parrotheads!
"I will survive..."
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