AP: 2 Accused of Terror Ties to Stay in U.S.

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2 Accused of Terror Ties to Stay in U.S.

The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 30, 2007; 11:27 PM

LOS ANGELES -- An immigration judge ordered the federal government Tuesday to halt
its 20-year effort to deport two Palestinian men accused of terrorist ties.

Judge Bruce J. Einhorn ruled the government had denied Khader Hamide and Michel
Shehadeh, members of the so-called "L.A. Eight," due process by keeping them in legal
limbo for so many years and being unprepared to prosecute the case.

In his 11-page opinion, Einhorn described the proceedings as "a festering wound on the
body of respondents and an embarrassment to the rule of law." He scolded the government
for failing to release evidence favorable to the men after he had ordered it.

The two men, five other Palestinians and a Kenyan faced deportation since 1987. They
were arrested on suspicion of association with the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine, a radical offshoot of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which has
opposed peace negotiations between the PLO and Israel. The U.S. government considers
it a terrorist organization.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013002037.html