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According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the joint removal at Niagara Falls was the fourth such operation organized by Canadian and U.S. officials—all since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Three previous operations involved removing even larger groups of immigration violators to the West African nation of Nigeria.

"In my opinion," says the Salvation Army's Southard, "Fuad was deported because of Sept. 11." Southard has wired his friend enough cash to purchase a temporary visa to the United Arab Emirates. "If he can get to the Emirates, he can access his bank account in Seattle," Southard says.

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Even so, he doubts he will ever see Ismail again, because he is no longer welcome in the United States. "It wasn't illegal to send him to Mogadishu, even if the INS people wouldn't even venture there themselves," Southard says. "Fuad had run out of appeals. But I'm positive that what the INS did was immoral and unjust."

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Brian Hutchinson is a staff writer for the National Post in Toronto, Canada, where a version of this story originally appeared.