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Immigrant Song lands India-born Briton in trouble

A love of punk and hard rock anthems by The Clash and Led Zeppelin led to an India-born Briton being hauled off a plane bound for London by police on terrorism fears.

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LONDON: A love of punk and hard rock anthems by The Clash and Led Zeppelin led to an India-born Briton being hauled off a plane bound for London by police on terrorism fears.
 
Harraj Mann, 23, played London's Calling by The Clash and Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song through the stereo of a taxi he caught to Durham and Tees Valley Airport in northern England.
 
The taxi driver, however, grew suspicious of his passenger after listening to the lyrics of his chosen songs and alerted the authorities after they reached the airport.
 
Two police officers boarded Mann's flight to London's Heathrow airport shortly before take-off last on Thursday.
 
"I got frogmarched off the plane in front of everyone, got my bags searched, asked every question you can think of," Mann, a mobile phone salesman, told his local newspaper, the Hartlepool Mail, on Monday -- a story that was picked up by the national press on Wednesday.
  
"I was being held for questioning under the Terrorism Act," he said.
 
By the time Mann was set free his plane had departed.
 
The offending lyrics by The Clash include the lines: London calling from the faraway towns, now war is declared and battle come down.
 
London calling to the underworld, come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls.
 
Immigrant Song, for its part, starts: The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands, to fight the horde singing and crying Valhalla, I'm coming!
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