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22 September, 2004
22 September 2004
A plane carrying 250 passengers, among them singer Cat Stevens, was diverted 600 miles off its course so that FBI agents could escort the musician off the flight in Bangor, Maine and send him back to England. Stevens, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam in 1977, was denied access to the US "'on national security grounds.'"

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