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US's Sorry Record on Catching ‘Spies’ and 'Terrorists'

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Aug 14, 2019
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Last week, US authorities quietly released a Pakistan-born ice cream seller named Hamid Hayat and allowed him to go back to his California valley town of Lodi after 14 years in a federal prison in Arizona.

Hayat was gathered up by FBI agents in 2005 on charges he had trained with terrorists for three to six months during a visit to his home city in Pakis…

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