(17 Oct 2014) Germany is drawing up plans to withdraw the identity cards of Islamic extremists suspected of planning to travel to Iraq or Syria to join militant groups.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Friday security officials plan to issue such suspects with a replacement temporary identity card stating in several languages that it doesn't entitle the holder to leave the country.
De Maiziere said the proposal aims to prevent German nationals from travelling to Iraq or Syria to get experience in fighting and then potentially coming back to Germany to "terror attacks."
De Maiziere also said it's already possible to withdraw people's passports, but officials hadn't previously come up with a way to withhold or mark the plastic identity cards Germans can use to travel to many countries in and beyond the European Union.
Details still have to be finalised.
More than 2,000 Europeans, including at least 450 from Germany, have joined the Islamic State group and other extremist organisations in recent years.
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