Rattle wrote:
] ] The Department of Homeland Security ordered a United
] ] Airlines jet flying from London to Washington rerouted to
] ] Bangor, Me., on Tuesday afternoon so it could intercept a
] ] passenger, Yusuf Islam, the musician formerly known as
] ] Cat Stevens, two government officials said.
] ]
] ] Mr. Islam was "denied entry into the United States," said
] ] an official, and was in the custody of Immigrations and
] ] Customs Enforcement. The plan on Tuesday evening was to
] ] deport Mr. Islam, who is a British subject, the officials
] ] said.
]
] The peace train Stevens was riding on was forced to land in
] Maine. Officials made a statement saying we should just
] remember there's a lot of bad and beware, beware, oh baby baby
] it's a wild world. Cat Stevens can no longer get by on just a
] smile, because he gave money to the wrong people.

What's strange is that I remember a GQ article from 2002 denouncing Stevens as a terrorist sympathizer. It was a great article and worth researching. Wouldn't it be strange if Cat Stevens hijacked the plane? Rather than deporting him, we should have had the CIA trail him and see what the hell he was gonna do here. This guy, at his core, really ain't any better then you average brainwashed Born Again. My boss said he met Stevens at a Baja Alai meeting in 1976.

RE: The New York Times | Cat Stevens, threat to national security