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Mohamed BENYOUREF, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 05-77437.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Argued and Submitted April 20, 2007.
    
    Filed May 7, 2007.
    Robert B. Jobe, Esq., Law Offices of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
    Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Counsel, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Thomas H. Dupree, Jr., Esq., DOJ—U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before: GOODWIN, THOMAS, and BEA, Circuit Judges.
    
      
      This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Benyourefs petition for review of the BIA’s denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) fails on all claims.

We lack jurisdiction to review the asylum denial because Benyouref failed to exhaust his administrative remedies. Zara v. Ashcroft, 383 F.3d 927, 930 (9th Cir.2004). Moreover, because Benyouref was ordered to be removed “by reason of’ a drug conviction, we lack jurisdiction to review the factual findings underpinning the denial of withholding of removal. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(C); Almaghzar v. Gonzales, 457 F.3d 915, 923 (9th Cir.2006). This jurisdictional bar also applies to his claim for CAT protection. See Ruiz-Morales v. Ashcroft, 361 F.3d 1219, 1220-22 (9th Cir.2004).

PETITION DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.