United States Eighth Circuit

Petition for review of decision denying application for asylum and withholding of removal is denied where plaintiff failed to establish that he was entitled to asylum based on persecution by Islamic extremists in the Kashmir region as the evidence showed the government was not unable or unwilling to control his abductors, was actively combating the insurgents, and had not approved or acquiesced in any actions directed against plaintiff.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/05/2009
• Published 03/05/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before MELLOY, BEAM, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David L. Wilson, Minneapolis, MN, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Aliza Bessie Alyeshmerni, USDOJ, OIL, Washington, DC, for Respondent.