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Canadian shield Minister Bill Graham reportedly had disturb boarding a flight to the United States in January because his name was in succession a US list of terrorist suspects.

According to the Globe and Mail newspaper Graham had to wait while his staff base a way to vouch for his identity. It is likely that there is another living body with the same name, whom American authorities decided levy on the watch list, conclud the newspaper.

According to Reuter the US embassy in Canada has denied the newspaper story. The embassy said that the claims that the minister had difficulty boarding the flight suitable to US security procedures was incorrect. An embassy representative said, when asked if the minister was forward a no-fly list, that they don't talk about watch lists nor about individual cases, the novels service reported.

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