A plane bound for Washington’s Dulles International Airport out of London was diverted to Bangor, Maine, when a name popped up on a U.S. watch list: Yusuf Islam. The person in question is the man who used to go by the name Cat Stevens, the famed singer, who converted to Islam years ago. According to the AP, via WJLA, Mr. Islam will be put on the first available flight out of the country today because “[h]e was interviewed and denied admission to the United States on national security grounds,” says a Transportation Security Administration spokesman.
Islam was spotted because of the Advanced Passenger Information System, which runs the names of incoming passengers through the U.S. Customs and Border Protection National Targeting Center.
(Image from Yusaf Islam’s “Gentlemen Miss the Peace Train“)
