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Report: Syrian National With Suspected Ties to 9/11 Living Freely in NJ, ‘Virtually Immune From Deportation’

Mar. 22, 2013 9:00pm
Syrian National With Clear Ties to 9/11 Hijackers Living in NJ Suburbs, Virtually Immune From Deportation

Daoud Chehazeh, left, and Eyad al Rababah (Image source: Fox News)

A Syrian national with established ties to the 9/11 hijackers is currently living in the suburbs of northern New Jersey, unworried about facing deportation by the U.S. government due to a series of mistakes made at the federal level, Fox News reports.

Following an investigation, Fox News found that Daoud Chehazeh received political asylum for the third time in November following a series of “bureaucratic screw ups at the federal level,” making him “virtually immune from deportation.” Fox reportedly reviewed court documents and interviews with former federal and state investigators in the case.

More from Fox News’s exclusive report:

Chehazeh arrived in the U.S. in July 2000 from Saudi Arabia and quickly settled into Paterson, N.J.’s Middle Eastern community. Paterson was the launching pad for the plot, where 11 of the 19 hijackers passed through before the attacks.

In Paterson, Chehazeh met up and lived with another key facilitator of the hijackers, a Jordanian named Eyad al Rababah. The significance of the Chehazeh-Rababah support network for the hijackers in Virginia and New Jersey was first reported by Fox News in May 2011. Law enforcement sources told Fox News that revelations Chehazeh was still living in the U.S. went to the most senior levels of the FBI.

Seven months before the attacks, Chehazeh, who had no job and no known source of income, suddenly decided to leave Paterson. Along with his roommate, Rababah, the two men moved to suburban Washington, D.C., and almost immediately made contact with Anwar al-Awlaki, who was the imam at the mosque in Falls Church, Va.

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By April 2001, beside al-Awlaki, Chehazeh’s new circle of friends and neighbors included future Flight 77 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Hani Hanjour, a pilot. Chehazeh made a point to tell Rababah, even though both men later admitted to investigators they were not religious men, to go to the mosque and ask Imam al-Awlaki for work.

Jim Bush, the New Jersey state criminal investigator who was part of the 9/11 investigation code-named PENTTBOMB, said allowing Chehazeh to remain in the U.S. is a “slap in the face to Americans, especially the victims of 9/11 and the families.”

Bush’s partner, former FBI special agent Bob Bukowski, claims the Syrian national was “definitely part of that conspiracy.”

“He facilitated the moves and protection up to the whole flight, basically, of Flight 77. Could we prove that in a court of law? No. But there are other remedies. Deport him. That’s what should have been done in this case,” he said.

So why hasn’t Chehazeh been deported?

The U.S. government did make an effort to deport him, spending more than $500,000. However, Bush told Fox News that he knew how the system works. Additionally, as the FBI investigated him following the 9/11 attacks, the immigration judge on the case apparently was not clued in about his terror ties.

Here’s exactly what happened, according to Fox News:

In 2001, court documents show U.S. immigration judge Annie Garcy helped Chehazeh fill out his asylum application. She would eventually rule that he belonged to a social group of “people who are hopelessly in debt.”

“I think it was unusual for a federal judge to grant him asylum based upon his being a member of a social group called hopeless debtors,” said Andrew Napolitano, a superior court judge in New Jersey for eight years who now is a senior judicial analyst for Fox News. “The federal judge concluded that he would be tortured or killed in Syria.”

After the Board of Immigration Appeals reopened Chehazeh’s case in 2007 due to the alleged terror ties, he hired really good pro bono attorneys from NewYork City to represent him.

Then, last November, the Board of Immigration Appeals reversed its decision to reopen the case, and officially closed the case on Feb. 13. In other words, Chehazeh appears to be staying in the U.S. for the foreseeable future without fear of prosecution or deportation.

To read Fox News’ entire report, click here.

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Comments (61)

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  • demorepublicrap
    Posted on March 23, 2013 at 8:03am

    Who pay for his housing? Food? Does he have forged ID? We do not have $ for our brave veterans coming back home but we have to pay for traitors of this country!
    Emergency Deportation!

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    • kenboo1
      Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:10pm

      Another target ??? maybe??? just saying….

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      kenboo1  
    • michael48
      Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:29pm

      ken…no “maybe” should be considered…but then again, he has rights…he’s NOT a citizen…

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      michael48  
  • flyarmy2009
    Posted on March 23, 2013 at 7:49am

    How come there are never any comments by “send in the meteors” on stories like this?

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  • betterpart
    Posted on March 23, 2013 at 5:17am

    Now that their faces are publicized, posters should be tacked to every lamppost and social network page.

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    • johnpaulkuchtajr
      Posted on March 23, 2013 at 6:02am

      This story has so many legs. For starters, how many of you have heard of these two men? Had there been any MSM coverage? I stay up with this crap (as a member of the Red Neck Jihad) and I’ve never heard a peep about them.

      Since both of these slugs live in NJ, how’s about we enlist Chris Christy. Hey Chris, step away from the cannoli and put your NJ State Police to work. These conspirators may not be deportable; but, I’ll bet that round-the-clock monitoring of their movements may show that both men have new ties to terrorists. I mean, am I way off base here? Do birds of a feather flock together?

      State officials in VA wouldn’t “sit” on all the “unindicted co-conspirators” from the Holy Land Foundation terror trial who were living and fund raising in VA? Why not? Frank Gaffney disclosed why on his web site http://www.muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com. It’s hard to pressure these slugs when you’re up to your **** in Saudi campaign cash. And that reason is why we won’t get past this contentious time in our nation’s history until we develop our own natural resources. We MUST throw off the yoke of foreign oil.

      Naturally, Obama’s policy is to try to ignore that current drilling and production methods make the USA the Saudi Arabia of the Western Hemisphere. Why? Follow the money. How much cash has CAIR, ISNA and NAIT dumped into Obama’s coffers. It’s real hard to discover numbered accounts deep in Saudi Arabia, don’t you think?

      “Remember Benghazi and

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    • kenboo1
      Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:42pm

      johnpaulkuchtajr Are you out of your mind??? Asking CC to step away from any kind of pasta is lunacy… Furthermore, His new found buddy Obama (Imam n chief) wouldn’t allow his lapdog (CC) to cross fed lines nor would CC want to… http://www.repeal17.net is the only way to get our country back…

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    • pavepaws
      Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:43pm

      “The U.S. government did make an effort to deport him,”………………..
      Really? That’s what large sacks are for. He better not go out for a paper.

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      pavepaws  
  • dmerwin
    Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:16am

    He may not face deportation but now might be very interested in repatriation. Fuggitaboutit.

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    dmerwin  
  • media-bias-steals-elections
    Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:39am

    Don’t worry, Mayor Bloomberg has a camera on him? Let me guess, he lives in a gun free zone, or where citizens have some really restrictive gun laws?

    But we can take naked pictures of your children, and feel your wives up at the air port, don’t you feel better?

    The American Affordable Lab Rat Act?

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  • cosmic dogma
    Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:26am

    I am surprised he isn’t the new head of national security.

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  • The_Pointy_End
    Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:53am

    Just wait until he by-passes you and the rest of the law abiding American’s in the security line at the airport!

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    The_Pointy_End  
    • Trigus
      Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:19am

      So, DHS gives this guy the okay, but the German Family gets deported? Makes a whole lot of sense.

      Why think small about bypassing in the security line. This guy is probably a candidate for Czar position in the Obama Administration. He could become the new Czar of Terrorism, that is at the rate the Obama Administration is sponsoring Terrorism. It only seems logical and he is Syrian.

      Only you can make this Once great Nation, Great Again!!!

      2013 American Patriot Spring, Who will you Stand with?

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      Trigus  
    • audaxrex stigimoloch
      Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:13pm

      @Trigus – your last line sounds like a Jeep ad.

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      audaxrex stigimoloch  
  • EODGhost
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:23pm

    Just post his address online. Someone will take him out.

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    EODGhost  
    • RoguePO
      Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:38am

      A hunting we shall go, Oh a hunting we shall go.

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      RoguePO  
    • audaxrex stigimoloch
      Posted on March 23, 2013 at 11:58am

      hey roguepro – it sure sounds like you just appointed yourself Vigilante. (Judge and jury’s been sewed up already by the other posters).

      Report this comment

      audaxrex stigimoloch  
  • 762x51
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:18pm

    Immune from deportation but not bullet proof, I bet.

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  • RAMJR
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:42pm

    With all the illegals, all the billions of dollars freely given, all the terrorists having our rights. all this administrations connections and support to terrorists and terrorist organizations…does this really come at a surprise…
    Destroying this country from the inside out is the quickest way to break this country in two.
    Just in our Supreme Court alone, the connections and sympathy to terrorists and ignoring our Constitutions and laws, would have the founders loading their chambers for millions living in this country in treason.

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    RAMJR  
    • The_Jerk
      Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:52pm

      Get the German family that desires to home school and let a slimy killer stay. What a place.

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      The_Jerk  
  • nonofmybiznez
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:18pm

    Maybe Obama can order him to be droned. He’s not an American…

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    nonofmybiznez  
  • zoro51
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:07pm

    Eject remove throwq out of the usa now no murdering muslums shall ever live in the usa…

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    zoro51  
  • The-Monk
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:55pm

    Perhaps the Fed Gov considers living in NJ punishment enough….

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    The-Monk  
    • sooner12
      Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:22pm

      Another cluster **** by the US govt.

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      sooner12  
    • Dr Vel
      Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:27pm

      Just no longer a subject of jokes. This goes on while the admin goes to court to deport a decent German family whose only crime is wanting to home-school their children with high moral values and a quality education capable of turning out citizens who are good for this nation.

      admin no longer deserves the respect of capitalization. Until things change this is the new ‘proper English’.

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      Dr Vel  
  • gyro
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:51pm

    Want the truth? Fallow the money
    Quote == Chehazeh, who had no job and no known source of income

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    gyro  
  • Vision Harry
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:25pm

    The time has come for each of us to “Fix” the little messes that come up each day in our lives.

    Charles Bronson Style!

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    Vision Harry  
  • Excomunicatedmarine
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:24pm

    And Soy is another.

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    Excomunicatedmarine  
  • lassiegirldawn
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:23pm

    And for all we know, maybe the commie in chief does have a son. I doubt it though since he is a queerieo.

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    lassiegirldawn  
  • soybomb315_II
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:21pm

    more evidence of government cover-up

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    soybomb315_II  
    • CulperGang
      Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:48pm

      all 19 were CYA assest……..the whole day was a “government” orchestrated terror attack to usher in the New World Order of total world dictatorship of a few dynastical families. REMOVING LIBERTY was the first phase. Second phase is mass annihilation. All 19 are alive……..some living in Saudi Arabia and some in three in Egypt. If anyone does not get this by now, is a hopeless dunce.
      Beck owes the 9/11 families a HUGE APOLOGY. Man up Glen. Man up.

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      CulperGang  
    • booger71
      Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:56pm

      CulperGang
      =============
      And I naturally assume you have seen all 19 of them walking around, and not just read this on some website.

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  • woodyee
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:18pm

    In other words, he can’t be deported for as long as he lives?

    I wonder if the Gannets Journal News* will publish the address of a terrorist sympathizer?

    *Those were the low-life scombegs that published the names and addresess of law-abiding firearms owners in a suburb of NY. If anyone wants me to post a link of THEIR (Journal News editors/reporters) names and addresses, why, just ask!

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    • toto
      Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:13pm

      If only the paparazzi would make his life unlivable and he would seek to end it himself. Can’t imagine what it must be like to know the world would be a much better place had you not taken your first breath.

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      toto  
  • SweetT
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:17pm

    Thank you Muslim Brotherhood – the real power behind the president.

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    SweetT  
  • Al J Zira
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:17pm

    Then, last November, the Board of Immigration Appeals reversed its decision to reopen the case, and officially closed the case on Feb. 13.

    And there you have it. Obama and Holder don;t want to deport their friends. Traitors!

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    Al J Zira  
  • bdandsl
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:16pm

    If you can not deport him then shoot him!

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    bdandsl  
  • Excomunicatedmarine
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:14pm

    Our Government is so dysfunctional it’s pathetic……but Hey, lets take away all our citizen’s means of self defense…..we got it covered, you don’t need any weapons.

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  • GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:07pm

    More propaganda to drive home the LIE, that hijackers were somehow involved in the great HOAX.

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    GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3  
    • CulperGang
      Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:51pm

      they were useful idiots in setting the drama up. …….for the drones to take out the different sites…

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 23, 2013 at 9:14pm

      @ Ground 0 & Culper

      Do you personally know anyone, who worked at the Pentagon on that day? Get to know some one who has had a tour at the Pentagon or worked there as a civilian. See if they are in on the hoax of a drone strike. See what rumors they have hear & believe or do not believe.

      Just get to know some people who have served of all ranks. Preferably more than 1 & preferably some who have served on the east coast.

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      Walkabout  
  • TAXEVERYONE
    Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:06pm

    One would think you good people could figure out where he lives so you you could talk with him.
    This story may not be accurate.

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