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A controversial Canadian Muslim preacher has been deported from the Philippines after being declared an “undesirable alien” by the country’s Immigration Bureau, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Bilal Philips, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 attempted bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York, was detained by police while on a speaking tour in the southern Philippines.

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“Philips was deported to Canada Saturday evening after the board of commissioners approved his request for voluntary deportation,” Elaine Tan of the Immigration Bureau told the National Post.

“He was charged for being an undesirable alien and for being inadmissible at the time of entry.” Earlier, the Bureau said he was deemed “undesirable” because of his “extremist views and possible link to terrorist groups.”

The 68-year-old has already been deported from Germany, Kenya and Bangladesh, and banned from the United Kingdom, Australia and U.S. A Jamaican-born Canadian, he is a former Toronto imam.