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MELHEM v. GONZALES

No. 06-2658.

500 F.3d 78 (2007)

Yaacoub Elias MELHEM, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 24, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Joyce on brief for petitioner.

Benjamin J. Zeitlin, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, and Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director, on brief for respondent.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, Yaacoub Elias Melhem, a native and citizen of Lebanon, seeks review of the denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), in its own opinion, affirmed the Immigration Judge's (IJ) determinations that Melhem's application for asylum was time-barred, that his testimony was not...

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