Sihombing

MEMORANDUM **

Eduard Sihombing, Martha Sitompul, and their children, natives and citizens of Indonesia, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence factual findings, Singh v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 1100, 1105 (9th Cir.2006), and we deny the petition for review.

In their opening brief, petitioners do not challenge the agency’s dispositive determination that Eduard Sihombing’s asylum claim was time-barred.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s adverse credibility determination because of inconsistencies regarding the location of the church bombing, the severity of injuries suffered by those harmed in the bombing, and Sihombing’s whereabouts on the purported date of the bombing, and these inconsistencies go to the heart of petitioners’ claims. See Pal v. INS, 204 F.3d 935, 938 (9th Cir.2000) (sustaining adverse credibility determination based in part on inconsistencies between testimony and…