Men Targeted by FBI Return to U.S.The Associated Press
Monday, October 2, 2006; 5:22 AM
SAN FRANCISCO -- Two American citizens related to a California man
who was convicted of supporting terrorists flew home from Pakistan,
five months after they were barred from returning to the United
States for refusing an FBI interrogation, their attorney said.
Muhammad Ismail, 45, and his son, Jaber, 19, arrived at New York's
Kennedy Airport on Sunday afternoon, according to Julia Harumi Mass,
an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern
California. They were scheduled to take a connecting flight to San
Francisco on Monday, she said.
-snip-In April, the Ismails were barred from boarding a connecting flight
to San Francisco from Hong Kong and returned to Pakistan. There,
Jaber Ismail was questioned by FBI agents, but the two refused
further interviews and a polygraph.
After complaining to the federal government, Mass received a letter
last month from the Department of Homeland Security suggesting the
two were cleared to fly.
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