From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Now it's the Brits that have gone a bit goofy with terrorist screenings

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=382
039&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=

 mobile phone salesman was hauled off a plane and questioned for three hours
as a terror suspect - because he listened to songs by The Clash and Led Zeppelin.
Harraj Mann, 24, played the punk anthem London Calling and classic rock
track Immigrant Song in a taxi before a flight to London.

The lyrics to both tracks made the driver fear his passenger was a terrorist.

The words of the Clash track begin: "London calling to the faraway
towns, now war is declared and battle come down." And Led Zep's
Immigrant Song goes: "The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to
new lands, to fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am
coming!"

Mr Mann, of Hartlepool, Teesside, had boarded the plane at Durham Tees
Valley Airport when the flight to Heathrow was stopped and he was arrested
by police.

He said he was told he was being questioned under the Terrorism Act and his
choice of music had aroused suspicions.

Mr Mann said yesterday: 'The taxi had one of those tape deck things that
plugs into your digital music player.

"I played Procol Harum's Whiter Shade Of Pale first, which the taxi
man liked. I figured he liked the classics so put on a bit of Led Zeppelin
- Immigrant Song - which he didn't like. Then, since I was going to London,
I played the song by The Clash and finished up with Nowhere Man by The
Beatles."

Mr Mann said he was 'frog-marched off the plane in front of everyone, had
my bags searched and was asked 'every question you can think of'.

He added: "It turned out the taxi driver alerted someone when I
arrived at the airport and had spoken about my music. He didn't like Led
Zep or The Clash but there was no need to tell the police."

Durham Police said the action was taken 'as a result of information
received' and the flight was stopped before take-off.

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