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Just four months ago, Stephen Demetre Georgiou aka Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam visited Washington, D.C. and met with White House officials about "philanthropic work." A couple of months later, he was in the country to visit his record label.

I'm curious to know what he has done in the last two months to have been placed on the no-fly list (which apparently doesn't work as well as planned!).

Considering that the Justice Department is now 0 for 5,000 in the prosecution of detainees they've held since September 11, 2001, I'm probably right in saying that the Bush administration doesn't know its collective ass from a hole in the ground.

From the New York Daily News...

Cat Stevens Banished As Terror Threat

WASHINGTON - The peace-and-love rocker formerly known as Cat Stevens was kicked out of the U.S. last night as a terror risk - four months after he was invited to meet with White House officials.

The author of "Peace Train" and "Wild World" who converted to Islam was placed on the "no-fly" list and the terror watch list in May when he last visited the U.S.

Ironically during that trip, he met with officials of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives "to talk about philanthropic work," according to White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan. Buchan said that was before he was added to the no-fly list.

The singer's Web site said that during his Washington trip he also met with USAID officials and launched the Small Kindness charity, which it says helped children in the Balkans and Iraq. The site also said Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, visited his record company in the U.S. just two months ago.

A spokesman for the U.S. Homeland Security Department said Islam was sent back to London because of his "activities potentially related to terrorism."

The spokesman declined to say what the activities were, but said, "We do not put someone on the [no-fly] list willy-nilly."

No... these idiots don't do anything willy-nilly!