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Posted on 02/14/2006 3:46:30 PM PST by BurbankKarl
An Iraqi Kurd who federal authorities say tried to help a senior al-Qaida operative gain entry to the United States was ordered deported today.
Immigration Judge Kenneth Josephson found that Sam Malkandi, of Kirkland, lied on his 1998 asylum application when he said he had been imprisoned in Iran for possessing forbidden political materials.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators say that in 2003, Malkandi tried to help Tawfiq bin Attash obtain a U.S. visa. The one-legged bin Attash, a former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, also known as Khallad, is suspected of helping plan the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 and the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
Malkandi has adamantly denied knowingly assisting bin Attash, saying instead that in 1998 he was approached by a stranger at the Northgate Mall who befriended him and then later asked him to help a Yemeni friend. Malkandi's lawyer did not immediately return a call seeking comment today.
Malkandi's supporters have called him kind and hardworking and say he would never intentionally assist a terrorist. He is expected to appeal today's decision.
Malkandi came to the attention of authorities after bin Attash was captured in Pakistan in 2003. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, he told U.S. officials that a man in Bothell, a north Seattle suburb, whose name sounded like "Barzan," had tried to help him.
Investigators concluded the man was likely Malkandi, who changed his name from Sarbaz to Sam in 2001. They discovered Malkandi had made arrangements for bin Attash, under a pseudonym, to obtain a new prosthetic foot at a clinic in Bellevue in 1999, ICE said in a news release announcing Josephson's decision.
Bin Attash never made it to the U.S.; his visa application was denied.
At least one was ordered deported....
Probably at least 50,000 to go...
Semper Fi
Why not jailed for life???
As long as the only punishment meted out against these guys is deportation, we will never stop them from trying to attack us.
Deport him one organ at a time.
There goes a demorat vote. No, wait, he will probably be mailed an absentee ballot.
Why don't we just execute him Muslim style? Why waste time and resources deporting this man.
They are not worth the $35K per year to imprison....
The ACLU won't let us simply shoot the bastards....
Now - if we could send them offshore to prison in some God forsaken hell hole at a cost of $5 a day --- I'm game..
Semper Fi
'Kirkland Sleeper Cell' - just rolls off the tongue, eh?
He'll finger his friends in Inglewood and we'll all sleep better.
/ kidding
Interesting considering 1. Most Kurds in the U.S. are secular and rarely, if ever, attend religious services or pray and 2. Kirkland is an upscale town not normally associated with such things. I would have thought that this guy would be down in Renton or Kent, rather than the home of Carillion Point and Cafe Juanita.
I live in Kirkland and there are no less than 5 muslim families within a two block radius from my house. Comforting.
The only time I ever see Muslims (usually Somalis, Pakistanis, and Lebanese) is when I make am down in the Southcenter area (Tukwila, Renton, Kent, etc.) which is, as you know, the low-rent end of the Seattle area. Also saw several when buying ammo at the Wal Mart in Mill Creek. Never see them in Seattle north of Pioneer Square, however.
bttt
Wonder how many more there are? With political correctness running rampant in Washington and Oregon, there could be hundreds.
Is this what Algore was screaming about when he accused the U.S. of persecuting Muslims?
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