Too funny; Billy Graham strikes! Too much praying apparently will get you on the no-fly list too.
The Globe and Mail: Defence Minister or no-fly suspect?:
Bill Graham has found himself in the same company as Ted Kennedy and Cat Stevens.
Last January, during a routine flight to the United States, the Defence Minister had trouble obtaining his boarding pass. Apparently, there is another Bill Graham out there somewhere who did something to get his name on an American watch list. Mr. Graham was obliged to prove that he was the other Bill Graham, the one in charge of the Canadian Forces.
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Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, the Americans have been trying to harmonize a gaggle of watch lists from different agencies into two databases: a “no-fly” list of people prohibited from entering the United States (this is the list that kept Mr. Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, from entering that country because of his financial support for Hamas and similar groups) and a “selectee” list of people who need to be further screened before being permitted on a flight.The two lists are not exactly working perfectly. Senator Edward Kennedy was repeatedly hassled last year after his name made it on a no-fly list. It took the direct intervention of then-director
