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OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ

ASSOCIATED PRESS | April 24, 2017, 7:59AM

| Updated 2 hours ago.

SAN FRANCISCO A federal judge revoked the U.S. citizenship of a man who prosecutors say ran a communications hub for an Egyptian terrorist group out of his San Francisco Bay Area apartment, authorities said.

Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia last week ordered the "denaturalization" of Khaled Abu al-Dahab, 57, for lying to immigration officials during the process to gain U.S. citizenship, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.

The Justice Department said the Egypt native was a member of the terrorist organization Egyptian Islamic Jihad for 10 years starting in 1989, three years after moving to the United States.

The former Silicon Valley car salesman admitted he spent two months at a camp near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where he received military-style training and taught foreign fighters to fly hang gliders in preparation for terrorist attacks. He also admitted to the FBI that he operated a communications hub for the group out of his Santa Clara, California, apartment, the department said.

Al-Dahab also admitted to U.S. investigators that he worked to recruit Americans of Middle Eastern descent into the terrorist network during his 12 years in California. Al-Dahab told the investigators that Osama bin Laden was eager to recruit American citizens of Middle Eastern descent because their U.S. passports could be used to facilitate international travel by al Qaeda terrorists, and that bin Laden personally congratulated him for this work, the department said.

Al-Dahab became a U.S. citizen on Feb. 7, 1997. The next year he traveled to Egypt, where he was arrested, convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for being a member of a terrorist organization and trying to overthrow the Egyptian government. He has lived in Alexandria, Egypt, since his 2011 release.

"We will protect our national security and our borders, and when we identify individuals tied to foreign terrorist organizations who procured their U.S. citizenship by fraud, we will initiate denaturalization proceedings whether you reside here or abroad and ensure you are denied entry into the United States," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.

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RANDI ROSSMANN

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | April 24, 2017, 8:43AM

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A man standing on a Santa Rosa street corner with his girlfriend Sunday night was stabbed multiple times in the back by a man who attacked from behind and then ran, according to Santa Rosa police Monday.

The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment for the non lifethreatening wounds, said detective Sgt. Josh Ludtke in a news release.

The girlfriend told officers the man was standing on the South E street corner when a man ran up behind him and began stabbing him. Officers determined the attacker was known by the victim and the girlfriend but they havent cooperated with police, Ludtke said.

The stabbing happened near Tupper Street, a few blocks from downtown, just after 9 p.m.

Ludtke asked anyone with information to contact detectives at 7075433590. A reward of up to $2,500 will be paid for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect. The money comes from a Sonoma County Alliance crimefighting fund.

You can reach Staff Writer Randi Rossmann at 707521-5412 or randi.rossmann@pressdemocrat.com.

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Deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee Rep. Keith Ellison recently aired his grievances with former President Barack Obama.

At an event at the University of Minnesota, the prominent Democrat said Obama shares some of the blame for Democratic losses across the country.

"Look I'm a great fan of President Obama," Ellison said. "I totally voted for many of the things he supported. Barack Obama could have been a better party leader, and I think the fact that he wasn't put his legacy in jeopardy."

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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (C) stands on stage with his wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders (R), and U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (DFL-MN) before speaking to supporters during a campaign rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, January 26, 2016.

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Ellison added that the former president was great at getting himself elected but not the party as a whole.

The congressman was an early backer of the Bernie Sanders campaign. Ellison ran for the DNC Chairmanship but lost to Tom Perez, the former Labor Secretary under Obama.

In an effort to bring the party together, Perez named Ellison his number two.

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Andy Gronik is a Milwaukee businessman who might run as a Democrat against Republican Gov. Scott Walker.(Photo: Stage W)

Democratic businessmanAndy Groniksays he hasn't even decided whether he wants to run against Gov.Scott Walkernext year, but the state Republican Party is already in attack mode.

On Thursday, Mark Morgan, executive director of the state GOP, filed a complaint with the state Ethics Commission alleging that Gronik had violated state election laws by setting up a politically focused nonprofit called Stage W and commissioning a political poll without registering a formal campaign committee with the state.

The complaint assertsStage W, which says it iscommitted to "bridging the political divide," appears to operate "as a campaign committee in waiting for Mr. Gronik." Gronik, 59, is president of the nonprofit, which he founded in May 2016.

Earlier this week, Gronik confirmed that he paid for a voter survey to help him decide whether he should challenge the second-term Republican governor in 2018.

The poll, which incorrectly referred to state residents as "Wisconsinians," asked respondents to compare Gronik with two other possible Democratic gubernatorial candidates and quizzed them on such issues as Act 10, which dramatically curtails collective bargaining for most public employees, and the state's school voucher program.

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The GOP complaint charges the survey was "unquestionably done" to help Gronik run for governor. Morgan asked the Ethics Commission to determine if the Milwaukee businessman or Stage W underwrote the cost of the poll.

In a statement, Morgan saidGronik owes"Wisconsinians" an explanation as to why he has already started his bid for governor without registering with the state.

By intentionally circumventing public scrutiny and the law with this secretpoll on top ofoperating a shadowy organization like Stage W he is showing right out of the gate that hard-working Wisconsin families can't trust him," Morgan said.

Gronik did not return calls.

Earlier this week, he said he paid for the poll to help him "take a very strategic and careful look at Wisconsin" on key issues. He said he also wants to "understand the path to victory what that looks like."

Gronik, who has not previously run for public office, declined to say where he stood on such issues as Act 10 or school vouchers. He said he hopes to make an announcement soon on his political plans.

Other Democrats considering a possible run for governor include state Sen.Kathleen Vinehoutof Alma, Rep.Dana Wachsof Eau Claire andJefferson County District AttorneySusan Happ.

Also being mentioned in political circles as a possible candidate is Daniel Speckhard, a Wisconsin native who is president and CEO of Lutheran World Relief in Baltimore. A former U.S. ambassador to Greece and Belarus, Speckhard did not return a call or email.

Conservative talker Mark Belling of WISN-AM (1130) discussed Speckhard's possible candidacy on his show earlier this week.

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Jon Ossoff, a Democratic candidate in Georgia's 6th Congressional District, will face Republican Karen Handel in a June 20 runoff, after winning the most votes in the April 18 special election but failing to reach the 50 percent threshold. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)

Democrat Jon Ossoff didn't win a special election for a Georgia congressional seat on Tuesday night. But he'll live to fight another day specifically in a June runoff against former GOP secretary of state Karen Handel.

It's not the Cloud Nine scenario that some Democrats had hoped for in this uber-hyped special election. But that a Democrat made it this far in Republican territory he was the top vote-getter out of 18 mostly GOP candidates is an impressive political feat.

And as much as we can extrapolate from one single Atlanta suburb, Ossoff's near-win portends Democratic strength going into the 2018 congressional midterms. If the stars align for them even close to how they did in this district, Democrats could take back the House of Representatives. They'll need the help of traditional Republicans and a liberal base not thrilled with President Trump, but those were both factors in this Georgia congressional race.

Democrats don't even really need to win this June runoff, held to replace Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, to take back the House. In 2018, Republicans will be defending 23 seats that Clinton won. If Democrats can net 24 seats, they would recapture the majority.

Depending on what data you use, there are some 70 to 90 congressional districts considered more competitive for Democrats. Tuesday's special election didn't even make a list of 60 that the House Democrats' campaign arm said earlier this year it wanted to target.

But it jumped on the map in a big way thanks to a fired-up liberal base. Ossoff was practically carried by anti-Trump, grass-roots momentum both inside the district and outside it. When he entered the race in January, he was an unknown, 30-year-old Democrat with no legislative experience. By the end of the race, he was a much better-known 30-year-old with no legislative experience who had raised an insane $8.3 million.

The fact he was even competitive is mind-blowing to Washington Democrats. Republicans have held this seat for 37 years. Price won it by 24 points just a few months ago.

Even in our wildest dreams in August of last year, I don't think anyone thought that Tom Price's House district was up for grabs, Neil Sroka, spokesman for the progressive Democracy for America, said earlier this week.

Democrats scrambled to provide the infrastructure to help Ossoff to his near-win, an early test for their party unity and organization. The proof will be in how many voters they turned outwho didn't show up in November. But early signs are good: Ossoff exceeded their off-the-record expectations of capturing 40 to 45 percent of the vote. He got 48 percent of the vote, almost exactly the share of four of the top GOP candidates combined.

Speaking of Republicans, let's talk about a potentially disenchanted minority that this race may have pulled back the curtain on. We definitely learned that Republican voters in this suburban, educated, wealthy district are very wary of Trump. Or rather, this race underscored that.

The district went for Mitt Romney in 2012 by more than 20 points, but for Trump by a little more than a percentage point. With regard to Tuesday's special election, most voters in a special congressional election are thinking big picture rather than granular, so an average vote could be considered a repudiation on the direction of the country so far as much as for a candidate.

I think it's pretty clear, nonpartisan elections analyst Stuart Rothenberg said earlier this month, Republicans in this kind of district are uncomfortable with Donald Trump.

It could be that this district is naturally trending away from a Trump-era Republican Party. Butit seemed to be aperfect test ground to witness what afired-up minority and a disenchanted majority can do against the backdrop of an unpopular first-term president. If that comes together for Democrats elsewhere in the country, well, that'sthe stuff wave elections are made of.

Here comes the giant, hulking caveat to every word above: There are still more unknowns than knowns in the battle for the House. The 2018 election is 567 days away, which might as well be a century in politics. Trump is historically unpopular, but that could change. Republicans can't get their act together to repeal Obamacare like many voters in this district conceivably want, but that could change.

There are also race-specific factors that make Democrats' performance less sterling than they might make it out to be. The Republican field might as well have been a field of a million there were 11 candidates, some of whom had their own high-profile supporters back in Washington. When voters in this district are faced with just one Democrat and just one Republican, will they really choose the Democrat?

Maybe, say Democrats. And they're not out of place to hope. As we learned in a special election in Kansas last week, and again on Tuesday, anything's possible for Democrats, even/especially the inconceivable. And Democrats capturing the House majority is much more conceivable than being competitive in this race was just a few months ago.

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