An man with alleged al-Qaeda links who was jailed in Northern Ireland on terrorist charges is being deported from, it is understood.
Algerian Abbas Boutrab was the first man with suspected links to the terror group to be jailed in the North.
Officials from the Border and Immigration Agency collected him from Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim earlier today and are expected to fly him of the UK within the next 24 hours.
He was jailed in November 2005 for six years for downloading information on how to build a bomb capable of blowing up a passenger jet. Having been in custody for two-and-a-half years before conviction his sentence is now complete.
The information was downloaded at Belfast Central Library and was found by police on 25 discs at his flat in Whiteabbey, Co Antrim.
He had originally been arrested over suspected immigration offences — possession of a stolen Italian passport.
PA