Zehatye

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SELAMAWIT ZEHATYE, 

Petitioner, No. 04-73295 v.  Agency No.

A79-243-418

ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted April 3, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed July 13, 2006

Before: Marsha S. Berzon, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Callahan; Dissent by Judge Berzon

7705 7708 ZEHATYE v. GONZALES

COUNSEL

Robert B. Jobe, Law Office of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, California, for petitioner Zehatye.

Peter K. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Mark Waters, Assistant Director, Lisa M. Arnold, Senior Litigation Coun- sel, Timothy B. Walthall, Trial Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for respondent Alberto R. Gon- zales. ZEHATYE v. GONZALES 7709

OPINION

CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Selamawit Zehatye challenges the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) denial of her application for asylum and withholding of…