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 the 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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'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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US security officials yesterday diverted a Washington-bound United Airlines flight and detained Yusuf Islam, formerly known as the pop singer Cat Stevens, after discovering that he had
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US officials detained singer Cat Stevens on Tuesday and will return him to Great Britain today, because he is now listed on an official terrorist &quot;watch list.
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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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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.
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admission to the United States &quot;on national security grounds.&quot; What seems strange is that the Yusuf Islam (former Singer Cat Stevens) &quot;stirred so much terror fears&quot; that the flight was diverted.
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CAT Stevens was deported from the United States because of a spelling error, with American officials confusing the former pop star with a man with a similar name on a &quot;no-fly&quot; list, Time magazine reported today.
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WASHINGTON - A gap in the airline passenger-check system permitted the former Cat Stevens to board a London- to-Washington flight even though he was on a federal no-fly list for suspected ties to terrorists, a Bush administration official said yesterday.
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A flight from Los Angeles to London was diverted to New York Thursday because of what officials said may have been an unfounded security scare.
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WASHINGTON - Homeland Security officials said Yusuf Islam - formerly known as singer Cat Stevens - will be deported Wednesday after being denied entry to the U.S. Stevens had recently been placed on a government "no-fly" list after U.S...
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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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Oct. 4 issue - Security officials can&#39;t quite explain why singer Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was on a US government &quot;no fly&quot; list.
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Cat Stevens, the singer who changed his name to Yusuf Islam, was on his way back to Britain last night after United States officials denied him entry and claimed he had funded terrorism.
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An American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to London was diverted to New York early Thursday after a crew member became suspicious of one of the passengers, an airline spokeswoman said.
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Yusuf Islam, the singer-song writer  formerly known as Cat Stevens, Friday demanded an inquiry into  why the United States labeled him a security risk and deported  him.