WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has deported a Palestinian accused of
being an agent of Islamic Jihad.Mazin Al Najar, detained by U.S. authorities since 1997, was expelled to
Lebanon over the weekend. Al Najar was to have resettled in Bahrain, but the
Gulf Arab country denied him entry at the last minute.Diplomatic sources said the United States contacted several Arab
countries to grant Al Najar entry. The sources said that six Arab states
turned Washington down.Al Najar, a 45-year-old Palestinian university lecturer, was said to
have been one of several Jihad agents in Florida. He has denied any
wrongdoing.
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