U.S. Asks Probe of INS in Bomb Case

The Justice Department is investigating immigration procedures that allowed alleged bomb-maker Ghazi Abu Mezer to live in the United States several months after he admitted Israeli authorities once arrested him as a terrorist, senior department officials said. Abu Mezer and his roommate in a Brooklyn tenement house, Lafi Khalil, are accused of plotting to bomb New York City subways because of U.S. support of Israel. Abu Mezer, a Palestinian, was given 60 days to leave the country in June after submitting an asylum request in which he said Israeli police had arrested him for being a member of the terrorist group Hamas, a charge he denied.