By then, Al-Nouri was living in Arizona.
Easy. He claimed to be a refugee from Al Qaeda.
"The United States has a clear responsibility to support these brave Iraqis who have stood by us," Senator Ted Kennedy had insisted.
After arriving in the United States as a refugee, the Al Qaeda leader applied for Social Security disability.
But Al-Nouri claimed to have been shot by Al Qaeda terrorists and that he had 20 bullets in his body.
Last month, the 9th Circuit Court ruled that Mohammed Mostafa Altayar, an Iraqi refugee, could be deported after he had threatened another man with a gun and assaulted him in 2014
FBI agents questioned Al-Nouri suspecting he might have traveled to Iraq.