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...corruption of minors; after spending nearly five years in prison; in Chihuahua, Mexico. Prosecutors alleged that Trevi, her former manager and two backup singers lured young girls into their entourage and sexually abused them, but the judge ruled there was not enough evidence to support the charges. BARRED. YUSUF ISLAM, 56, the British singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, whose string of hits in the 1960s and '70s included Peace Train, Wild World and Morning Has Broken; from the U.S.; after his flight from London to Washington was diverted to Bangor, Maine, when U.S. officials discovered...
...Yusuf Islam incident earlier this week, in which the former Cat Stevens was denied entry into the U.S. when federal officials determined he was on the government's "no-fly" antiterror list, started with a simple spelling error. According to aviation sources with access to the list, there is no Yusuf Islam on the no-fly registry, though there is a "Youssouf Islam." The incorrect name was added to the register this summer, but because Islam's name is spelled "Yusuf" on his British passport, he was allowed to board a plane in London bound for the U.S. The Transportation...
...weapon against you." Says Ingrid Mattson, vice president of the Islamic Society of North America: "Other than from the spokesmen for these different terrorist groups, everything I've heard is a complete rejection" of the beheadings. Scholars at Cairo's venerable al-Azhar seminary condemned Berg's fate. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the learned star of an al-Jazeera ask-the-cleric show, has rationalized Palestinian suicide bombings, but said--albeit with some equivocation--that Berg's execution was not justified. Most scholars agree that the recent executions also sin against bans on mutilation of enemy bodies and mistreatment of prisoners...
...supported Wiranto. But with the race still tight and many votes yet to be tallied, Golkar officials refuse to count their man out. "We have to wait for the manual count to be finished before we really know what position we have come in," says campaign chairman Slamet Effendy Yusuf...
Jefferson became President in early 1801, shortly after Yusuf Karamanli, the ruler of Tripoli, unwisely issued an ultimatum to the U.S.: If it did not pay him fresh tribute, he threatened, he would declare war on America. The new Commander in Chief coolly decided to let the ultimatum expire and take the declaration of war at face value. He summoned his new Cabinet, which approved the dispatch of a naval squadron and decided not to bother Congress--which was then in recess--with the information. He did not, in fact, tell the elected representatives of his plans until the fleet...