Turingan

MEMORANDUM **

Rico Manió Turingan, a native and citizen of the Philippines, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision summarily affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“U”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U. S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence an adverse credibility determination, Chebchoub v. INS, 257 F.3d 1038, 1042 (9th Cir.2001), and we deny the petition.

*782 Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility finding because the IJ gave specific, cogent reasons for finding petitioner’s testimony inconsistent, implausible, and lacking in detail and specificity. See id. at 1048 ; Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1153 (9th Cir.1999). Because these implausibilities went to the heart of his asylum claim, including why he entered a military base, how he trespassed onto the base, and his flight and the attempts on his life, substantial evidence supports the denial of asylum. See Chebchoub, 257 F.3d at 1043 .

Because petitioner failed to establish eligibility for asylum, it follows that he failed to establish eligibility for withholding of removal. See Alvarez-Santos v.…