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Posted on 07/16/2003 12:17:07 PM PDT by knighthawk
A PEACE activist from Northern Ireland, arrested by Israeli forces in the West Bank and initially thought to be an IRA bombmaker, was expelled from Israel and placed on a London-bound plane at Israel's main international airport today, witnesses said.
He had earlier been taken from the Israeli prison in Petah Tikva, where he was held for three days, to Ben Gurion airport for his expulsion by the Israeli authorities.
Israeli forces had said they arrested John Morgan, 40, and said to be a member of the Real IRA, a hardline faction Irish Republican Army, on Saturday.
But it later appeared that he had been confused with a member of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, whose Irish name Sean O'Muireagain translates into English as John Morgan.
An Israeli official said yesterday that the man would be expelled.
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