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Death-threat MP expected to leave Netherlands

By Ian Bickerton in Amsterdam

Published: May 15 2006 22:35 | Last updated: May 15 2006 22:35

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somalia-born Dutch politician whose criticism of Islam triggered death-threats, is on Tuesday expected to announce that she is leaving politics and the Netherlands amid a scandal over her citizenship and security fears.

Her decision to flee to the US comes as she faces investigation into the circumstances under which she applied for naturalisation in 1997, after admitting that she lied to Dutch immigration officials in her asylum application five years earlier.

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