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| 03.07.200611:07 (GMT) | A Yemeni citizen was detained Saturday in Constanta by the Romanian secret services and is to be expatriated following suspicions that he was planning actions which could have affected national security, Bucharest Daily News reports. Mokhtar Mahmod al H-Al-Hashd graduated from the Medicine Faculty in Constanta. He was arrested in the apartment he had rented in the city.
The Prosecutor's Office from the High Court banned him from entering the country for the next 15 years, following a request coming from the Intelligence Agency. According to sources from the police he was trying to recruit Middle-Eastern citizens in order to start a terrorist cell in Romania.
This is the third terrorism suspect detained in Romania. Last week, security services detained a man suspected of planning a car bomb attack to protest Romania's alliance with the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two weeks ago, an Iraqi man was arrested in the town of Bacau, being accused of trying to organize in 2003 a series of attacks on Western and Israeli objectives in Bucharest.
The 46-year old Shaker al-Shaker was a former Iraqi consul to Bucharest, according to the Intelligence Agency. His legal name is Chaker Mahmoud. Three years ago, before the US-led invasion of Iraq, Mahmoud and the personnel of the Iraqi Embassy in Romania, were declared undesirable by Romanian authorities for the following 15 years.
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