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Accused Nazi likely to remain in U.S.

CLEVELAND -- John Demjanjuk, the retired autoworker accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard, appears likely to live out his days in the United States.

No other country is willing to accept the 87-year-old, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported...

Demjanjuk was sentenced to death in Israel for being a notorious guard at the Treblinka death camp known as Ivan the Terrible. But he eventually won an appeal and returned to the United States.

A federal judge ordered him deported in 2005. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to make a final decision next year.
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