At 11:24 PM Tuesday 9/21/04, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Horn, John wrote:
> Flight diverted after Cat Stevens found on watch list
> Tuesday, September 21, 2004 Posted: 10:18 PM EDT (0218 GMT)
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- A plane bound for Washington from London was
> diverted to Maine on Tuesday after passenger Yusuf Islam -- formerly
> known as pop singer Cat Stevens -- 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.
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/21/plane.diverted.ap/index.html
>
> Sheesh. That'll teach him to re-record songs in protest of the war.
>
Anyone have any idea why Cat Stevens is verboten?
'Cuz mornings are bad enough even when they're not broken . . .
-- Ronn! :)
"Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever."
-- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovskiy
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