Ahmed

MEMORANDUM ***

Mohammed Elmorsy Ahmed, a native and citizen of Egypt, petitions pro se for review from the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, see Chebchoub v. INS, 257 F.3d 1038, 1042 (9th Cir.2001), and we deny the petition.

Assuming Ahmed’s testimony to be credible, substantial evidence supports the BIA’s conclusion that Ahmed failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of an enumerated ground. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). Ahmed testified that he belonged briefly to an organization known as the Muslim Brothers and that they repeatedly tried to get him to rejoin after he left. Ahmed also testified that he feared the Egyptian authorities would falsely assume he was a terrorist because he was incarcerated in the United States following the increased national security measures instituted after September 11, 2001, and would…