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Immigration officials are probing reports that a senior Palestinian militant who last April took over a shrine marking the traditional birthplace of Jesus has sought refuge in Canada. Abdullah Daoud, 41, who was deported from Israel to Cyprus last May, quietly arrived in Canada with his family sometime in the last month, immigration and police sources said yesterday. Police believe Daoud has resettled in the Toronto area. Officers aren't sure if he is using another name. Immigration spokesman Simone MacAndrew said there's little information on Daoud but her officials will investigate. "We investigate any time we have information that someone...

Nov. 25, 2002 Remaining exiled Palestinian leaves Cyprus for Mauritania(UPDATE) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NICOSIA, Cyprus - The last of a dozen Palestinians exiled to Cyprus in May to end a monthlong siege of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity was escorted Monday to Mauritania after months of searching for a willing host. Abdullah Daoud, 41, was sent to Mauritania because it was the only Arabic-speaking country willing to take him in, his wife, Kifah, said from her home in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus. She said she had spoken with her husband by telephone...