F.B.I. Arrests Iraqi Refugees Related to American’s Kidnapper
said that to get refugee status, Mr. Mashhandani and Mr. Hasan had made up a story in which Mr. Hasan was kidnapped by an Iraqi militia.
The refugees, Yousif Al Mashhandani, 35, of Vienna, Va., and Adil Hasan, 38, of Burke, Va., admitted to the F.B.I.
agents interviewed Majid Al Mashhandani, the brother of Mr. Mashhandani and Mr. Hasan, in 2005.
on Tuesday arrested two Iraqi refugees living in Northern Virginia after they failed to disclose
that one of their brothers had been involved in the 2004 kidnapping of an American contractor in Iraq.
said it had learned the brothers withheld the information when Mr. Mashhandani was fingerprinted as part of the citizenship process.
He said he was told by others when applying for refugee status
that he would not be allowed into the United States if any immediate family member had a criminal background.
