https://freerepublic.com/tag/ahani/ en-us Sun, 23 Jun 2002 03:40:58 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/704465/posts Preferred to stay in jail: Last chapter in nine-year legal battle to block deportation The government's nine-year fight to remove a suspected terrorist and trained assassin from Canadian soil ended this week when Mansour Ahani was taken from a Hamilton jail cell, loaded on to a plane and flown to his native Iran. Mr. Ahani, who Canadian officials say is a member of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence Security, branded a terrorist organization, preferred life behind bars in Canada over returning to Iran and threw up repeated legal challenges to his deportation. It took the government years to whittle away... National Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/704465/posts#comment Sun, 23 Jun 2002 03:40:58 GMT