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...DEPORTED. YUSEF ISLAM, 56, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, whose string of hits in the 1960s included Peace Train, Wild World and Morning has Broken; from the United States; after his United Airlines flight from London to Washington was diverted to Bangor, Maine, when U.S. officials discovered he was on the no-fly list for having suspected ties to terrorists. He returned to London, saying, "The whole thing is totally ridiculous," and vows to challenge...
...corruption of minors; after spending nearly five years in prison; in Chihuahua, Mexico. Prosecutors alleged that Trevi, her former manager and two backup singers lured young girls into their entourage and sexually abused them, but the judge ruled there was not enough evidence to support the charges. BARRED. YUSUF ISLAM, 56, the British singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, whose string of hits in the 1960s and '70s included Peace Train, Wild World and Morning Has Broken; from the U.S.; after his flight from London to Washington was diverted to Bangor, Maine, when U.S. officials discovered...
...Yusuf Islam incident earlier this week, in which the former Cat Stevens was denied entry into the U.S. when federal officials determined he was on the government's "no-fly" antiterror list, started with a simple spelling error. According to aviation sources with access to the list, there is no Yusuf Islam on the no-fly registry, though there is a "Youssouf Islam." The incorrect name was added to the register this summer, but because Islam's name is spelled "Yusuf" on his British passport, he was allowed to board a plane in London bound for the U.S. The Transportation...
...easily bought off or dissuaded; their goal in life was not to be left alone but to aggressively expand and conquer. The Turks who laid waste to Byzantium were not concerned merely with gaining money, trade privileges, leverage, or power; they were ghazis whose goal was to establish Islam as the preeminent faith over the entire world. Had the Byzantines cast their lot squarely with the West, things would have turned out differently...
...past. Furthermore, plans to train Iraqi soldiers must be ramped up and expedited; currently, despite promises, progress in this area has been tremendously slow. The sooner this war becomes a war within Islam—between the reformists and the fundamentalists—rather than a war between Islam and the West, the sooner dreams of democracy in the Middle East may be realized...