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"Why This Prominent UK Enviro Caused a National Security Freakout" [1]

"Why did the FBI detain and question a 62-year-old British environmentalist upon his arrival at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport? The bureau won't say, and the activist, who was subsequently shipped back to London, never got a clear explanation." The answer, it seems, involves superglue.



"Last Thursday, prominent British enviro John Stewart traveled to the United States to take part in a monthlong speaking tour organized by Aviation Justice Express, a US-based coalition of environmental and community-based groups. The tour was scheduled to stop in six cities across the US, where Stewart was slated to discuss his work in the United Kingdom on aviation pollution."

Kate Sheppard reports for Mother Jones October 6, 2011.
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Source: Mother Jones [2], 10/07/2011
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/why-prominent-uk-enviro-caused-national-security-freakout [2] http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/john-stewart-detained-interrogated-JFK [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81