Prominent Arab expelled from Poland for alleged pro-terrorist links

The Internal Security Agency (ABW) have accused Ahmed Ammar, an Imam living in the Wielkopolska region, of contacts with terrorist organizations and creating backup services for fundamentalist organizations in Poland. He denied these charges, but Rzeczpospolita found an internet site promoting terrorism, which was gathering support for him. Ammar has been residing in Poland for 14 years, and was given until Monday to leave the country on the demand of the Wielkopolska voivode. The foundation of his decision is a confidential opinion of the ABW from May 10, 2004, which accused the Yemen citizen of endangering the safety of Poland. “This is a man of many faces who plays a different character depending on who he is talking to. In contacts with academics he is constrained, but in contacts with Muslim society he does not conceal his negative opinions for Poland,” a representative of ABW told Rzeczpospolita. (Rzeczpospolita, May 22-23, pp. A1, A3) M.M.