Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Singer denied entry to US, sent to Maine instead

An AFP article in South Africa's Daily Mail and Guardian reports:

A United Airlines flight from London to Washington was rerouted to Bangor, Maine, late on Tuesday to prevent Yusuf Islam, the British pop musician formerly known as Cat Stevens, from entering the United States

Aside from the actual merit or not of denying Islam entry...

Maybe there's a logical reason that the poorly explained intro didn't mention, but I was left wondering when Bangor, Maine ceased being part of the US.

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