[x-posted to rec.travel.europe and rec.food.cooking...]


Some Guy wrote:

> So this is why the US has a no-fly list.


Yup..don't you LOVE it...???


> The great, FREE, USA has to maintain a list of people to keep out of
> the country just because of what they think. Free speech eh? What a
> crock. The US has become one of the world'a formost Orwellian states,
> right up there with Iran and North Korea.


So sez Chicken Little...

*lol*


> ------------------------
>
> The Former Cat Stevens Gets Plane Diverted
>
> Flight Diverted After Yusuf Islam, Aka Cat Stevens, Found to Be on
> U.S. Watch List
>
> The Associated Press
>
> WASHINGTON Sept. 21, 2004 - A London-to-Washington flight was diverted
> to Maine on Tuesday when it was discovered passenger Yusuf Islam
> formerly known as singer Cat Stevens was on a government watch list
> and barred from entering the country, two federal officials said.
>
> United Airlines Flight 919 was en route to Dulles International
> Airport when the match was made between a passenger and a name on the
> watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation
> Security Administration. The plane was met by federal agents at
> Maine's Bangor International Airport around 3 p.m., Melendez said.
>
> The two federal officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity,
> identified the passenger as Islam. They said Islam was denied entry on
> national security grounds, but had no details about why the peace
> activist


Heh. "Peace activist" my arse. The terms "Muslim" and "peace activist" are
mutually exclusive, there is no such animal as a Muslim "peace activist".

Glad we have a "no fly" list to keep such vermin out of the country. They
can go peddle their rubbish some other place...

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Best
Greg