But before the daughter could board the plane, she was detained.
On January 14, rapper, actor, and activist Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, tried to board a plane to Ethiopia when he was detained by South African immigration authorities.
One was the 3-day international crisis last Aug. at Kennedy Airport when a plane carrying Ludmila Vlasova & others was detained to be sure she was returning to Moscow voluntarily.
But the limits to that strategy became apparent in July when American federal prosecutors took aim at online gambling sites.David Carruthers, the British chief executive of BetonSports, which is also listed in London, was detained while changing planes in Texas en route between the company's offices in London and its base in Costa Rica.
Fourteen days after Mr. Arar was detained, while changing planes at Kennedy International Airport, Jack Hooper, the assistant director of operations at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, wrote, "I think the U.S. would like to get Arar to Jordan, where they can have their way with him".
After the plane landed at the San Francisco airport, Mr. Bevivino was detained for questioning by several police officers, who also called the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and a T.S.A. employee.
Mr. Harding had arrived from London, was detained and put on the next plane back, without explanation.
He was detained by the FBI after the plane landed but turned out to have a "legitimate illness", officials from the department of homeland security said.
Mr. Arar, 39, was detained in September 2002 at Kennedy International Airport as he changed planes on his way to Canada from a vacation in Tunisia.
