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PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A U.S. immigration judge has ordered an 85-year-old retired steelworker deported to Austria, or to any other country that will accept him, for serving as an armed Nazi death camp guard during World War II. Anton Geiser and his attorney did not immediately return calls and an e-mail for comment on the decision announced Tuesday by the Justice Department. Judge Charles Honeyman issued the 14-page order out of Philadelphia on Monday.

The Hunt for American al Qaeda The United States is turning up the heat in the hunt for the California boy turned al Qaeda operative, Adam Gadahn, who has been charged with treason and is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan. If caught and convicted, Gadahn could face the death penalty. The State Department along with the Department of Diplomatic Security announced the beginning of a publicity campaign in Afghanistan urging locals to provide any information on Gadahn's whereabouts, with a reward if the information leads to his capture. Radio advertisements with information concerning the $1 million reward have...

An 84-year-old San Francisco woman was deported to Germany this month after admitting she worked as a guard in a Nazi-operated concentration camp, federal officials announced Tuesday. News about the dark chapter in Elfriede Lina Rinkel's past left her relatives in the Bay Area stunned. They said Rinkel had kept the secret for more than 60 years, from them and, apparently, from her late husband -- a German Jew who had fled the Holocaust himself. (SNIP) The government's charges, filed in April, say Elfriede Rinkel was born July 14, 1922, in Leipzig, Germany; served at the camp from 1944 to...

LONDON – London's mayor will face a disciplinary hearing for comparing a Jewish journalist to a Nazi concentration camp guard, a local government watchdog said Tuesday. The Standards Board for England said an investigation into charges that Mayor Ken Livingstone "failed to treat others with respect and brought his authority into disrepute" had concluded that a disciplinary hearing should take up the matter. The Adjudication Panel for England, which will conduct the hearing, could bar Livingstone from office for up to five years, censure him, order him to apologize or force him to undergo training, said a spokesman for the...

An immigration judge on Thursday set bond at $50,000 for a man accused of serving as a Nazi guard at a World War II concentration camp and lying about it on immigration papers. The US Department of Justice intends to appeal Judge Larry Dean's ruling, said Gina Balaya, spokeswoman for the US attorney's office in Detroit. Authorities arrested Johann Leprich, 77, at his home in Macomb County's Clinton Township north of Detroit on July 1. The federal government is seeking to deport him. Leprich had been a fugitive since 1987, when his US citizenship was revoked because officials found he...

Judge raps Queens man A 79-year-old suspected former Nazi camp guard now living in Queens was stripped of his citizenship by a federal judge. Jakiw Palij, who allegedly served as an armed guard in the notorious Trawniki slave labor camp in Poland, where 6,000 Jews were slaughtered in a two-day massacre in 1943, now faces deportation. The SS-sponsored spree at Trawniki - code-named Operation Harvest Festival - along with the murders of 36,000 at two other camps in Poland, was the largest two-day German killing operation against Jews during World War II, according to court papers. Federal prosecutors did not...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department said on Thursday it sued to revoke the U.S. citizenship of an accused Nazi concentration camp guard who allegedly took an oath of personal loyalty to Adolf Hitler during World War II. It said it filed the lawsuit in federal court in Cleveland against Jakob Miling, 78, a native of the former Yugoslavia who now lives in Lyndhurst, Ohio. The lawsuit alleged Miling served as a guard at the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany. At the German camp, Miling and other guards manned machine guns...