There’s an update to your link:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-705bomb,0,4115150.story?coll=sfla-news-palm
The man arrested, Nassar David Ghelichkani, 44, was detained because his supervised release from jail was withdrawn, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said.
An immigration judge ordered him to be deported but Iran refused to grant him traveling documents. So Ghelichkani remained in the United States until federal authorities were required to release him in 2004 and supervise his movements, Gonzalez said. A U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2001 requires ICE to release detainees after 180 days if deportation efforts are unsuccessful.
Federal agents got a recent tip that he was obtaining a Florida driver’s license while claiming he was an American citizen.
Thanks very much Velveeta.
Friend takes release of kidnapped contractor into his own hands
Minneapolis — (AP) A Minneapolis man who went on his own intelligence-gathering trip to the Middle East after his friend and three other American security contractors were kidnapped said Thursday he has a plan to secure their release.
The four Americans, along with an Austrian colleague, were kidnapped Nov. 16 in southern Iraq when their truck convoy was ambushed.
Mark Koscielski, a Minneapolis gun-shop owner who is friends with Paul Reuben, one of the contractors, said Thursday in a radio interview that he, other friends, and family members of the four Americans had raised about $150,000 they hope to use as a ransom to obtain their release. (snip)
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/07/05/hostage/
THANK YOU Velveeta.
I appreciate the update.