Article: Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center Calls for the Canadian Government to Take Decisive Action on the Deportation of Convicted Terrorist.

TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jul 18, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Attn: News/National/Assignment

The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies is calling on the Canadian government to take immediate action on the deportation of a convicted terrorist residing in Canada.

Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, who currently resides in Brantford, Ontario, was ordered deported from Canada in December 1988 for lying on his immigration documents about his terrorist past, including a 1968 failed escape on an Israeli commercial airliner at an Athens airport. Mohammad, working for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, engaged in a terrorist attack that killed one of ...

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