THE CASE OF OMAR AMEEN

The morning federal agents came for him, Omar Ameen was asleep. He remembers waking up to the sound of his young son knocking on his bedroom door. "The police want to take you away," he recalls his son saying. It was the worst moment of his life, Ameen, speaking through a translator, told Michael Anthony Adams in an exclusive interview. Police showed up at his Arden-Arcade apartment to arrest him as part of an extradition request from the Iraqi government, accusing him of killing a police officer on behalf of ISIS four years earlier.

For nearly a year Michael has been following Ameen’s extradition case, and is the only journalists who’s been able to speak with him since his arrest.