(CNN) Scott Glover - Mahmad Hadr Mahmad Shakir, today known as Vallmoe Shqaire, spent years in an Israeli prison for attempting to bomb a bus in Israel in 1988, acting on the direction the Palestine Liberation Organization. Despite his conviction, which should have barred him from even entering the U.S., he became an American citizen in 2008. Federal authorities have been aware of his background since at least 2010. They've had fingerprint evidence conclusively linking him to the terrorist act since 2016. "Somebody dropped the ball," said Seamus Hughes, deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. Shqaire, 51, was charged in September with illegally obtaining his American citizenship by intentionally withholding his criminal record and past associations.
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