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...