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  • Cat Stevens, on Watch List, Diverts Plane

    09/21/2004 7:05:56 PM PDT · by blogblogginaway · 290 replies · 6,156+ views
    AP ^ | sept, 201 2004 | LESLIE MILLER
    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...
  • Watch List Passenger ID'd as Cat Stevens

    09/21/2004 6:52:34 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 225 replies · 7,070+ views
    FOX News ^ | Sept. 21, 2004
    Watch List Passenger ID'd as Cat Stevens Tuesday, September 21, 2004 BANGOR, Maine — A passenger who was matched to a federal watch list, forcing a jetliner to be diverted, has been identified as singer-cum-Muslim convert Cat Stevens (search), according to federal officials. The plane bound for Washington, D.C., from London landed in Bangor Tuesday, authorities said. United Airlines (search) flight 919 had already taken off from London en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made, according to Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration.
  • Terror Watch List Buried in Bureaucratic Mess

    01/14/2004 9:23:09 PM PST · by Happy2BMe · 4 replies · 222+ views
    Terror Watch List Buried in Bureaucratic MessBy SHAUN WATERMANJan 14, 2004, 08:15The United States still does not have a fully functioning "one stop shop" for checking the identity of suspected terrorists and more than 20 agencies were scrutinizing passenger lists on at-risk flights from Europe during the recent orange alert, according to officials and airline executives. The Terrorist Screening Center, which opened under the aegis of the FBI on Dec. 1, 2003, "is not quite fully functional," Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection told United Press International.Libutti declined to give a date when the center...
  • FBI director confident that US will hunt down bin Laden

    01/14/2004 7:15:38 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 7 replies · 167+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 1/14/04 | James Harding - Financial Times
    Striking an upbeat tone on the prospects of hunting down the head of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, Mr Mueller insisted "we are safer today than we were on September 11". He acknowledged that scouring territories along the Afghanistan (news - web sites)-Pakistan frontier for Mr bin Laden had sometimes been like "looking for a needle in a haystack", but, speaking at a lunch hosted by The Christian Science Monitor, he said: "I am confident we will find him." Mr Mueller added he was also confident of finding Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian doctor seen as al-Qaeda's second in command. In election...
  • US in row with France over terror operation

    12/25/2003 7:28:07 PM PST · by Mark Felton · 119 replies · 431+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | 12/25/03 | Telegraph
    American and French officials yesterday traded mutual recriminations over the failure to snare any terrorists in the security operation that grounded six Air France flights in and out of Los Angeles. Bush administration officials expressed frustration that al-Qa'eda operatives might have escaped capture after word leaked, early this week, of American concerns about flights from France to the United States over the Christmas period. One official said Washington had been hoping to keep the US-French negotiations confidential, adding that the hope was that "we would be able to lure some of these people in". However, a French interior ministry spokesman...
  • France Released Terror Suspects Today!

    12/25/2003 6:35:26 PM PST · by go star go · 124 replies · 355+ views
    CNN ^ | 12/25/2003 | CNN
    French police sources said that after they received the U.S. information, six people were questioned but no one was arrested. All of the men had tickets for Air France Flight 68 to Los Angeles and were on a watch list provided by U.S. authorities, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
  • Air France Cancels U.S.-Bound Flights Over Security [flight to LA grounded due to terror warning]

    12/24/2003 11:24:23 AM PST · by yonif · 35 replies · 194+ views
    Reuters ^ | 12/24/2003
    PARIS (Reuters) - France said Wednesday that national carrier Air France had canceled three U.S.-bound flights from Paris due to security concerns. The French interior ministry said the flights were canceled at the request of the U.S. embassy in Paris. The United States is on a heightened state of alert ahead of Christmas and the Washington Post reported that foreign airlines were under particular scrutiny. An Air France spokeswoman confirmed that a flight due to leave Paris at 1235 GMT for Los Angeles had been grounded "for security reasons." The French prime minister's office said the cancellations had been prompted...
  • The System That Doesn't Safeguard Travel

    04/22/2003 1:48:51 PM PDT · by freepatriot32 · 13 replies · 207+ views
    business week ^ | 4.22.03 | Jane Black
    <p>As a public official, I appreciate and commend those trying to protect our nation against terrorist attacks," the letter from a municipal employee of Bothell, Wash., begins. "I also have concerns, specifically regarding the treatment of those who have been identified as potential risks. It has become apparent, over the course of my last few trips, that I am one of those individuals."</p>