MOHAMED v. ASHCROFT

No. 03-2270.

396 F.3d 999 (2005)

Zahra A. MOHAMED; Shukri Salah; Abdulkadir Salah; Hamida Salah; Abdi Salah, Petitioners, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States of America, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: February 10, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Wilson, argued, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for petitioners.

Daniel E. Goldman, argued, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC (Peter D. Keisler, Emily Anne Radford, and Blair T. O'Connor, on the brief), for respondent.

Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, MAGILL, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.


MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Zahra Mohamed and four of her children,1 natives of Somalia, petition for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming without opinion the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") denial of their applications for asylum and withholding of removal. Mohamed argues that the IJ erred by: (1) concluding that Mohamed did not suffer past persecution on account of her Benadir clan membership; (2) finding her...

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