We just received the following blast email from Sarah Stern of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET).  At hearings before a US immigration Judge in San Diego,today,  the  US Department of Homeland Security announced that it was dropping  its deportation case against former Shin Bet agent, Mosab Hassan Yousef, author of Son of Hamas.  According to the San Diego Tribune, the presiding judge granted Yousef, asylum. The efforts of many, including his former Shin Bet handler, have been rewarded with this decision of the DHS. We had been an early advocate for Congressional investigation of this  misinformed deportation matter. Sweet reason and moral suasion has prevailed.

Here is the EMET report:

Breaking News: Government Dismisses Deportation Case Against Mosab Hassan Yousef

EMET has just received word directly from Mosab that the Government has officially dismissed its deportation case against Mosab Hassan Yousef at a federal detention center in San Diego.

Mosab has told us that it was thanks to the efforts of EMET that the government decided to dismiss its case and grant him political asylum.

EMET is enormously grateful to all those who played a part in standing with Mosab during this time, and helping the Department of Homeland Security come to understand what a grave error deporting Mosab would have been.

A special thank you is due to Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), who authored a letter to DHS secretary Janet Napolitano, co-sponsored with 21 other Representatives. We wish to thank each and every representative who added their names to this call for sanity and to do right by a man who has stood up to terrorism and hatred, at a great personal cost.

Thanks also to former Ambassador R. James Woolsey, who also wrote a letter on Mosab’s behalf, and to all those who called, wrote, or emailed their congressional representatives and the White House on behalf of seeing justice done.