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