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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (11080)	11/27/2001 10:45:11 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 27724

Palestinian Detainee From Texas Is Deported to Jordan, Held By David Koenig Associated Press Writer Published: Nov 27, 2001 DALLAS (AP) - A Palestinian man who was detained in September on a visa-fraud charge was taken into custody in Jordan after he was deported from the United States, his lawyer said. The lawyer, Karen Pennington, accused U.S. officials of breaking an agreement not to hand over Ghassan Dahduli to Jordanian officials. Dahduli, 42, had agreed to be deported to Jordan. Pennington said she didn't know why he was taken into custody. "I'm very concerned that this was done because the FBI couldn't torture him and he was transferred to the Jordanians so they could torture him at the behest of the FBI," Pennington said Tuesday. Officials at the FBI in Dallas did not return several messages seeking comment. Lynn Ligon, a spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Dallas, said the agency would not comment on individual deportations. Dahduli's wife and five children expected to greet Dahduli on Monday at the airport in Amman, Jordan. Dahduli's eldest son saw him being led out of the airport by two men, the lawyer said. Pennington said Dahduli's wife recognized a Dallas-based INS agent at the airport and was told that another Dallas-based INS official also escorted Dahduli to Jordan. An INS source who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that two agents accompanied Dahduli to Jordan. Agents accompany deportees who are considered dangerous or if the plane makes other stops or if the other country requests accompaniment. Dahduli had lived in the United States about 20 years and worked at Freddie Mac, the federally chartered mortgage company. The government tried to deport him beginning in September 2000 for obtaining a work visa through fraud. Dahduli had been free on bond until he was arrested two months ago at his home in the Dallas suburb of Richardson. Dahduli's name had turned up in an address book belonging to Wadih El-Hage, a former Arlington resident who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa. Pennington said Dahduli barely knew El-Hage. Until January, Dahduli had been a top local officer of the Islamic Association for Palestine, a Chicago-based organization that Israel considers a front for the Hamas terrorist group. ap.tbo.com