BABALLAH v. ASHCROFT

No. 01-71407.

335 F.3d 981 (2003)

Abrahim BABALLAH; Ula Baballah; Ahmad Baballah, Petitioners, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 11, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Haitham Edward Ballout, Burlingame, CA, for the petitioners.

John C. Cunningham and Jocelyn Lopez Wright, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.

Before: TASHIMA, THOMAS and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

PAEZ, Circuit Judge:

Abrahim Baballah, a native and citizen of Israel, and his wife and oldest child, petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming the denial of their application for asylum and withholding of removal. Over a ten-year period, Israeli Marines repeatedly threatened and attacked Baballah on account of his ethnicity and religion. The violence that he experienced not only caused him to fear serious...

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