Cat Stevens: Crazy that US deported me

Former pop star Cat Stevens arrived back in London today saying he was "totally shocked" to have been denied entry to the US on security grounds. The ex-singer, 56, now known as Yusuf Islam after converting to Islam in the Seventies, told reporters at Heathrow airport: "Half

He arrived on United

Airlines flight 918 from Washington after being detained on Tuesday.

He was travelling to the US capital when his flight was diverted of me wants to smile, half of me wants to growl.

"It's crazy. Everybody knows me from my charitable work and now there has to be some explanation, but I'm glad to be home."
to Maine, where he was escorted off the plane, questioned by the FBI and ordered to leave.

Islam said he will be consulting his lawyers, and described as "very kind" the intervention of Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who protested on his behalf to the US government about the incident.