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Thu 09 Sep 2010EU to back data storage in Israel despite Irish fears
IRELAND’S EU partners are poised to brush aside the Government’s reservations about a data transfer pact with Israel by backing a plan to allow the storage there of sensitive personal data on European citizens.
Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has campaigned to scrap the measure, citing serious concern about the use of eight fake Irish passports by the alleged Israeli assassins of Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
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