Fawaz Damra
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Fawaz Damra is an imam who lived near Cleveland, Ohio. He was deported and had his United States citizenship stripped for lying to immigration officials while obtaining that citizenship.
Damra was alleged to have recruited suicide bombers to attack Israel.[1] The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Damra delivered bridge building speeches in English to audiences that included Jews, while also preaching Jihad against Israel to Muslim audiences in Arabic. He was filmed calling people who are Jewish, "pigs and monkeys" and raised funds for terrorist groups. He was deported to the West Bank on January 4, 2007. [2]
Damra’s deportation began January 2, 2007, when his attorney could not find him in the Monroe, Mich., jail cell where he had been for more than a year.
The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported that Damra was delivered to Israeli security agents at a West Bank crossing controlled by Israel.
January 9, 2007, the Associated Press in Jerusalem reported that Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service had arrested Damra because of his past ties to Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian terrorist group.[3]
On January 26, 2007 the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Fawaz Damra had been released from an Israei prison after three weeks in custody and returned to the West Bank where he was staying with family.
[edit] References
- ^ Prelude to terror: How Damra misled FBI, Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 16, 2004
- ^ Damra deported to West Bank, Cleveland Plain Dealer
- ^ Damra deported to West Bank, Cleveland Plain Dealer
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