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Romania deports al-Qaida-linked students

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Romania has deported five students accused of having ties to al-Qaida and trying to recruit members of the country's Muslim community, an intelligence official said Thursday. The five were placed under surveillance in the capital and the northeast city of Iasi and later deported and banned from returning for the next 15 years, intelligence service spokesman Marius Bercaru said. He would only say the deportations took place this year, and he declined to say where the five students were sent. "The operation aimed to stop this radical Islamic group in Romania and remove these people from the...

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