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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: January 11, 2007 |
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Israeli authorities who arrested the former imam of Ohio's largest mosque after he was deported from the United States have questioned him about the militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, his attorney said Thursday.
Fawaz Damra, 46, was arrested because of the ties he allegedly had 15 years ago with Islamic Jihad, said Smadar Ben-Natan, Damra's Israeli lawyer. Islamic Jihad, which is responsible for numerous suicide bombings and other attacks on Israelis, is classified by Israel and the U.S. as a terrorist organization.
Ben-Natan met her client for the first time on Wednesday at the Kishon prison in northern Israel and said he was being treated well. She said she would appeal his arrest later Thursday.
Damra, 46, a Palestinian from the West Bank city of Nablus, was deported by U.S. authorities last week because he was convicted of concealing his ties to terrorist groups when he applied for American citizenship in 1994. |
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