CLEVELAND - The former imam of Ohio's largest mosque has spoken with his attorney for the first time since he was arrested by Israel after being deported from the U-S last week.
The lawyer says Israeli authorities are interested in any knowledge Fawaz Damra may have of Islamic Jihad, a militant Palestinian group that has carried out suicide bombings and rocket attacks against Israel. The lawyer says Damra is not charged with a crime and is being interrogated. Israel and the U-S say the Islamic Jihad is a terrorist organization.
Damra was deported to his native West Bank by American authorities last week because he concealed his ties to Islamic Jihad when he applied for U-S citizenship in 1994. Damra served as the imam, or religious leader, of the Islamic Center of Cleveland in Parma.
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Egypt MP says only nuclear bomb can stop Israeli digging
02.12.07
"That cursed Israel is trying to destroy al-Aqsa mosque," Mohamed el-Katatny of President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP) told the Egyptian Parliament, adding "nothing will work with Israel except for a nuclear bomb that wipes it out of existence." Other members of el-Katatny's party called to revoke Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
Officials of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said last week they would work with the Federal Aviation Administration to impose flight restrictions around a North Dakota air base where the new UAV will be tested.
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Britons suspected of fighting with Islamic forces in Somalia returning home
February 12, 2007
LONDON: Four Britons seized in Kenya and suspected of fighting alongside Somalia's ousted Islamic movement were preparing to be deported Monday, Britain's Foreign Office said. The men were seized in January on the Somali border after escaping advancing Ethiopian troops who, together with Somali government troops, ousted the Islamic militants.
At least 10 foreigners were held in Kenyan custody, including the Britons, two Americans, a Frenchman and a Tunisian woman, according to Kenyan officials. Britain's Foreign Office said four men had been handed to officials in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday and would be deported.
A Metropolitan police spokeswoman could not confirm whether the men would be arrested on their arrival in Britain in connection with their activities in Somalia.
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