Passenger Cat Stevens Gets Plane Diverted
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WASHINGTON - A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine when it was discovered that passenger Yusuf Islam - formerly known as singer Cat Stevens - was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country.    United Airlines Flight 919 was en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made Tuesday between a passenger and a name on the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration...
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U.S. security officials diverted a D.C. bound flight and detained Yusuf Islam, formerly known as  pop singer Cat Stevens, after discovering that he had been allowed to board the plane in London even though he was on the government's no-fly list.
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The deportation of Yusuf Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens who was stopped while flying into the United States, exposed problems with the way perceived threats to aviation are identified.
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Now known as Yusuf Islam, the musician was to be put on a flight to Britain on Wednesday, US and British officials said.
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A flight from Chicago to New York City was diverted Tuesday night because of an unspecified security concern, authorities said.
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The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens is forbidden from flying into the United States because of his alleged association with possible terrorists, U.S. officials said Wednesday in explaining why a London-to-Washington flight carrying the peace activist was diverted.
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Yusuf Islam, who became famous in the 1970s as the pop singer Cat Stevens, left the United States on a United Airlines flight to London yesterday after being denied entry because he was on several government watch lists, U.S. officials said.
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A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine yesterday when passenger Yusuf Islam - formerly known as pop singer Cat Stevens â-as found to be on a government watch list and barred from entering the country, two federal officials said.
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'Middle Eastern' passenger provokes American Airlines divert An American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to London this morning made an unscheduled stop at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport after a member of the flight crew "alerted security on the ground that there may be a suspicious person on board, and the decision was made to divert the flight", Flight International reports.â¦
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A Virgin passenger plane was diverted to Stansted airport in a security alert, Scotland Yard said last night. The aircraft flying from Hong Kong to London&#39;s Heathrow Airport landed around 6.30pm NZT after a bomb threat.
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Singer Cat Stevens and his daughter have been escorted from a diverted transatlantic flight and refused entry into America flight by FBI agents.
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Surely, Homeland Security officials had good reason for diverting a London-to-Washington flight to Bangor, Maine, so they could remove pop legend Cat Stevens from the plane as a national security threat and ship him back to England.
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OFFICIALS from the United States department of homeland security said yesterday that the former pop star Cat Stevens was escorted off a transatlantic flight and denied entry to the US because of fears that he ...
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BANGOR, Maine -- Yusuf Islam, the pop star formerly known as Cat Stevens, was a "perfect gentleman" when he got dumped at Bangor International Airport last month -- unlike most of the passengers who get pitched off their flights here, the local police said.
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A passenger plane bound for Washington from London was diverted to the northeastern US state of Maine on Tuesday after the name of a passenger appeared on a US government watch list, authorities said.
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A trans-atlantic flight from London to Boston had to make an emergency diversion after one passenger made an unexpected early arrival.
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Singer and peace movement supporter Cat Stevens and his daughter were escorted off a diverted transatlantic flight by FBI agents. The singer and writer, who converted to Islam many years ago and uses the name