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...Security’s Advanced Passenger Information System detected a member of the Terrorist Watch List on board. The flight made a special landing at Bangor International Airport where the would-be terrorist was unloaded and detained. The remaining passengers continued on to Dulles International in Washington, D.C., while Yusuf Islam was interrogated and sent back to London via Boston and Washington...
...Yusuf Islam is not one of the missing hijackers, or one of bin Laden’s advisors. Nor is he associated with Hamas, nor does he enjoy the illustrious status of being a playing card in the US Army’s Iraqi deck. He’s Cat Stevens. Cat “Peace Train” Stevens...
...terrorist activities as the cause for his detention, though—surprise—they wouldn’t say which charities. Homeland Security’s spokesman commented that “the intelligence community has come into possession of additional information that further heightens our concerns of Yusuf Islam...
...really glad that the intelligence community is concerned about Yusuf Islam, I really am. I’m just a little more concerned about Osama bin Laden and the degeneration of American values...
...fairness, his celebrity and image should have no bearing on how he is treated by our government; if there’s evidence of a link between Yusuf Islam and “the terrorists,” or “the enemy,” then by all means he should be blocked from the country. The profile of his case simply raises the larger question: is this secret evidence, this contrived vaguery, actually evidence at all? According to Yusuf Islam’s personal statement, even he doesn’t know what the charge against...