Posted on 02/14/2006 9:05:34 PM PST by jmc1969
Federal agents scored an important victory in their effort to deport a 47-year-old native and citizen of Iraq with ties to a senior al Qaeda operative suspected of helping plan the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 and the 1998 bombings of US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Based on evidence presented by Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorneys during a series of hearings that concluded earlier this month, Immigration Judge Kenneth Josephson yesterday ordered Sam Malkandi, a resident of Kirkland, Washington, removed from the United States. The Judge, who had earlier held that Malkandi was a national security risk, also denied Malkandi's request for relief from removal.
During Malkandi's immigration hearings, ICE attorneys introduced evidence that Malkandi committed fraud against the US government in order to obtain immigration benefits for himself and his family.
The attorneys also introduced evidence, some of which was referenced in The 9/11 Commission Report, that Malkandi attempted to fraudulently obtain a US visa for Tawfiq bin Attash, a one-legged Al Qaeda operative also known as "Khallad." A trusted lieutenant and former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, bin Attash is suspected of planning the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.
The evidence linking Malkandi to the al Qaeda operative surfaced in 2003 after bin Attash was captured in Karachi, Pakistan, and turned over to US authorities.
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Deport him?
Why not shoot the bastard?
Semper Fi
Deport him directly to the gas chamber.
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