Perera

*471 MEMORANDUM **

Palande Liyanage Seawal N. Perera, a native and citizen of Sri Lanka, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review adverse credibility findings for substantial evidence, Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1149 (9th Cir.1999), and we deny the petition for review.

The IJ determined that Perera was not credible based on significant inconsistencies between the story Perera told in his asylum application and to an asylum officer, and the story he told during his testimony before the IJ. For example, Perera’s application and the notes from the asylum interview state that an unknown group attacked him and firebombed his shop. The asylum officer noted that when asked who might have attacked him, Perera stated that probably some business people attacked him. Perera then testified at the hearing that one of the men that participated in both attacks on Perera wore a police uniform and badge. The inconsistencies in Perera’s story relate to central facts in his asylum claim,…