By ELLIOT SPAGAT
Mosab Hassan Yousef (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mosab Hassan Yousef says he will be killed if he is deported from the United States to the West Bank. The oldest son of one of Hamas’ founders, he was an Israeli spy for a decade, and he abandoned Islam for Christianity, further marking him a traitor.
He is scheduled to plead his case Wednesday to an immigration judge in San Diego, four months after publishing memoirs that say he was one of the Shin Bet security agency’s best assets and was dubbed The Green Prince, a reference to his Hamas pedigree and the Islamists’ signature green color.
Yousef’s case seems straightforward: Helping Israel find and kill members of the militant group would make him a marked man back home. Nearly two dozen members of Congress wrote Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano this week that Yousef would be in “grave danger” in the Middle East. Former CIA Director James Woolsey says his deportation would discourage other potential spies. (Read more.)
B.S. Report–How are we supposed to lure formerly bad people to our side if we turn around and serve them up to their terrorist homelands to be tortured to death? I’m not saying this guy Yousef is a good man–but I am saying that he is a valuable asset.
Keeping our country safe is not a lily-white business–there are inherent trade-offs. Often, those trade-offs involve committing a lesser harm so as to prevent the occurrence of a greater harm.
